Faculty Services & Library Helps: Custom Research Guides

Biblical Exegesis

Art History

Child Development

Jackson Library offers a way to organize and showcase library and online resources relevant to your students for research and study.

LibGuides is an information sharing system designed to help students locate and quickly access topical resources. The platform allows for easy navigation of core resources for a particular field, class, or assignment.

The platform effectively invites collaboration between librarians and instructors to promote information literacy and research.

• Organize core and relevant resources for your class on one 24-hour webpage, and simply give your students the custom url.

• Appeal to all learning modalities using library video and podcasts, paired with books, articles and web sources. Feature all in one place.

  Put students in touch with databases and information you suggest, along with a librarian who can help guide them.

• Contact a librarian to update the information on your guide at any time, adding or changing a resource. We'll do the work for you!

• Hand-picked resources presented in a linear, intuitive format.

• A great resource for study-abroad courses or blended learning.

• Teaches at the point-of-need to your students.

• Beneficial for distance students unable to visit the library.

• Meets the needs of students with diverse learning styles.

• Allows students to focus on the relevant versus the less relevant.

• Visually demonstrates that there are great resources, in multiple formats, on even the most difficult topic.

An online guide can reinforce information seeking skills in your field and instruct students according to the needs of your assignments.

• The Research Process
• Finding Primary Sources
• Constructing Search Strategies
• Evaluating Sources
• Using Databases in Your Field
• Open Source Resources in Your Field 
• Citing & Ethical Use of Information