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Student and Faculty Research Consultations
Students and faculty can consult with Research Librarians on any aspect of the research process. We maintain a Library Scheduler for their use in placing their appointments directly into a librarian's calendar. Appointments can be as brief as 10 minutes or as long as an hour. The Scheduler is easy to use. We want to make it easy to get in touch with us! Of course, students and faculty are also welcome to drop in or to email, message, or call us.
Research Librarians are available Monday-Thursday from 9am-6pm, Friday from 11am-4:30pm, and evenings Monday-Wednesday 7-9pm.
Classroom Research Workshops and Presentations
Research librarians customize research workshops for courses ranging from First-Year seminars to Graduate Thesis independent studies. Faculty are encouraged to collaborate with librarians on developing learning goals for specific courses or assignments. We hold our workshops in the Phelan Library Learning Center, a classroom that supports hands-on work with students. Alternatively, librarians can make presentations in classrooms equipped with a computer and a projector. As a component of the workshops, librarians publish Course-Specific Research Guides. The online guides extend the reach of the classroom, because librarians can embed steps in the research process within them, guiding students with textual notations and aligning the design of the guide with the design of particular assignments.
First-Year Librarian Program
Our First-Year Librarian Program is modeled on Yale University's Personal Librarian Program. Like Yale's PL Program, our First-Year Librarian Program introduces incoming first-year students to library services and collections. Each First-Year, Cities, Guided Studies, Interdisciplinary Science, and Interarts seminar has a dedicated librarian who provides classroom workshops and individual research consultations. The First-Year Librarian works closely with faculty and First-Year mentors to develop research workshops closely tailored to specific assignments and seminar learning goals. The First-Year Librarian also serves as students point person in the library. Students can get in touch with their First-Year Librarians for just about anything library-related, and how often they do that is entirely up to them. First-Year Librarians will communicate with students via email to let them know about helpful research tools and methods. Every incoming student has a First-Year Librarian.
Research Associates Program
The Research Associates Program selects and educates students to be peer mentors of research. Research Associates can guide students during all stages of their research in all disciplines. They staff the library and manage their own research consultaton appointments. Research Associates complete Research Methods and Information Resources, a 1/2-credit course annually taught in the spring semester. Research Associates work shifts over the course of the academic year, and are paid on an hourly basis.
The Research Associates Program helps to extend the reach of Research Librarians and provides an experiential learning model in the library, as well as opportunities for student leadership paralle to peer-tutoring programs in Trinity's Writing Center, Math Center, and Academic Computing Department.
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Thursday, 09-Feb-12