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Resources: Faculty

A general resources guide for Butler faculty and adjuncts.

Instruction: Overview

Information literacy (IL) skills are necessary for students to successfully pursue their college studies and later, as graduates, to stay abreast of current developments in their area of specialization. The ability to retrieve and evaluate information also assists individuals in making personal decisions.

Butler Libraries and Archives is committed to teaching students the skills necessary to critically assess and ethically use information in individual and group settings. Our instruction librarians are available to teach your students about how to find, evaluate, and use information.

Request Instruction

There are four steps to requesting instruction from our instruction librarians.

Step 1: Choose your session.

Choose between an entrée or à la carte.

  • Entrée (50-90 minutes): An introduction to the library, library resources scavenger hunt, or research support.
  • À La Carte (10-90 minutes): Create your own entree out of the following: library catalog, selecting a topic, keywords, search strategies, databases, source type, evaluating sources, citations, etc.

Step 2: Choose your format.

You can choose either face-to-face or online. Online instruction sessions can be live or recorded.

  • Face-to-face: Our classroom in El Dorado seats up to 24 students, and our classroom in Andover seats up to 22 students. We can also visit your classroom.
  • Online: Synchronous/live (Zoom or Teams) or asynchronous (recorded) sessions are available.

You can also request an embedded or personal librarian for your courses. 

Step 3: Choose your librarian.

El Dorado
  • Miranda Windholz (she/her): Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences; Arts, Digital Media, and Communications; and Health Science
Andover
  • Kim Veliz (she/her): Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Health Science

Step 4: Complete your order.

Send an email to the librarian of your choice with the following information:

  • Course name and number
  • Date, time, and location (building and classroom number or online)
  • Number of anticipated students in the class
  • Assignment and rubric of type of instruction requested
  • Additional information as needed to help the librarian prepare your request

Request Instructional Materials

If you do not have time to schedule an instruction session for your class, our instruction librarians can develop supplemental resources for your class or an assignment.

Examples of supplemental resources include:

Credo Instruct: Tutorials and Videos

To add Credo tutorials and videos to your Canvas course, follow the instructions below. Use the tabbed navigation to find different tutorials and videos on research-related topics.

  1. After you have chosen the video or tutorial that you would like to use in your class, hover over the link and right-click on the mouse. Select copy link address and copy the address OR click the link and then copy the URL at the top of the page.
  2. Go to the Canvas page where you want to place the link and type in the text that you want your link to be called.
  3. Highlight the text and click on the link button in the editor. Paste in the permalink that you copied from Credo Instruct.
  4. Click on the "Insert Link" button and your link is saved on your page.
  5. Alternatively, you can add a link to a module by clicking the plus sign in the module.
  6. Click on External URL, paste a link in the box, and add a name. Click on "Add item".

You now have a direct link to the video or tutorial in your module.

Note: Remind students that they will need to use their MyButlerCC username and password to view the article or book.