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Get to know your
subject liaison librarian
! These faculty librarians develop the PCC Library collections for your subject.
Librarians also teach instruction sessions tailored to your assignments and teaching objectives. Fill out the
instruction request form
, and a librarian will reply to discuss options for your class.
Check out our
Teaching in the Community College guide
, where you’ll find resources that support continuous learning for our community of educators, including books, videos, online journals and research databases.
Our
Course Specific Research Support guides
provide instructional objectives, and bridging competencies, for achievement of the course specific research outcomes for courses with indicators for research skills, or information literacy concepts in the course outcomes, outcome assessments, or course content sections.
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Course Reserves
: Place materials from PCC Library or your personal collection on reserve for your courses. You decide how long students can check them out and from where!
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: Save your students money with OER! Library faculty can help you formulate an OER strategy and find open resources for your classes.
Streaming Videos
: Browse PCC Library collections of streaming videos for use in your courses.
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: Can’t find an item you need? Suggest specific books, ebooks, periodicals, videos, or audio CDs to add to PCC Library’s collections.
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page to access thousands of scholarly articles, ebooks, and streaming videos for your research and teaching.
Learn how to create and share links to resources from our databases so your students can access them from anywhere by visiting the
“Learn how to create and share links to content in databases” link on the right-hand side of our Articles & Databases page
. Check the
“How to link to content” link
included with the database you want to link content from to get specific directions for that database.
Research Guides & Tutorials
Faculty librarians offer
research guides
for most academic programs at PCC. These guides suggest subject-specific databases, books, videos, and websites to jump-start your students’ research.
You can
request a research guide for your class
to help them with their specific research needs.
Teach your students how to use research tools and resources with PCC Library’s growing array of
video tutorials on YouTube
and
information literacy teaching materials
.Need a different tutorial?
Send us a suggestion
for a new tool.
Need a place to point your students for citation help? Try our
citation style guidelines
.