Answered By: Elaine M. Patton
Last Updated: Aug 25, 2022     Views: 52

Step #1: talk to your librarians! If you have one in mind, you can email them directly, or you can reach out generally to uplibrary-ref@lonestar.edu (or use the instruction request form, even). This way we can confirm your librarian is available for time your class will be most active with their research project.*

*What? It's online asynchronous -- how can you not be available? : Typically, we're trying to balance our teaching load, which varies from week to week based on faculty requests, plus our other commitments in support of the campus and the SLRC. If your desired librarian is, say, already responding to one class's discussion board posts plus grading bibliographies for two more sections of a different class in the same week you want an active discussion board... well, we like to minimize that.

 

Once you've gotten the greenlight on who you're embedding, be sure you get their employee ID number. After that, it's just a matter of going into each section you want a librarian and adding a user to the section. We request and recommend the faculty role. Second choice is teaching assistant (which is limited in its ability to, say, create a new module or discussion board, though it can add/reply to existing ones). (Wouldn't a librarian role be nice? We're just saying...)

A more detailed step-by-step guide with screenshots is available on the Faculty Guide to the Library.

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