Instructional Services

Supporting students' development of research skills

We recognize that many faculty, across the disciplines, help students learn library research skills and practice them. Faculty librarians at CCNY can support your efforts by:

• Working with you to create in-class workshops tailored to your research assignment and learning goals (these workshops may be in-person--generally in a computer lab--or online); workshops include hands-on time so that students can practice what they learn, with feedback from the librarian and from you.
• Collaborating with you to create course-specific online research guides;
• Working with you to hone research assignment design;
• Sharing with you information about the resources available to CCNY students through our libraries;;
• Offering individual guidance to students and answers to their research questions at the reference desk on the lower level of the library;

We are always open to speaking with you to discuss other possibilities for collaboration. Please contact the library's teaching coordinator, Haruko Yamauchi, at infolit@ccny.cuny.edu, or contact your department's liaison librarian, so we can talk about the best ways we can work together.

Information Literacy Instruction Request Form

To request a class, please fill out the form below. If you prefer to open the form in a new window, click here. If you are requesting instruction for multiple sections, please submit separate requests for each section.

All library are classes tailored to meet the needs of your students, so the more we understand about your learning goals for a specific assignment, the better we can prepare. 

Please note that the most effective workshops are held at a time when students already have at least a rough idea of their research topic/question, so that they can immediate apply what they've learned in the workshop.

To best serve you and your students, library classes must be requested at least three weeks in advance.

Please direct any other information literacy questions to Prof. Haruko Yamauchi, the library's information literacy and community engagement librarian, Haruko Yamauchi, at infolit@ccny.cuny.edu or see our frequently asked questions.