Research Guides
2024-2025 Library Resource Review
This guide is for the pre-conference Library Resources session held for faculty on Friday 8/16/2024
Director of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship
Amanda Bosch
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Subjects: BioChemistry, Biology, Career, Jobs & Test Preparation, Chemistry, Children's Literature, Education, English, Environmental Science & Studies, Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion, General Research, Literature, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Nursing, Political Science, Psychology, Religion and Philosophy, Sociology, Sport and Health Sciences, Teacher Education, Theatre Arts
Digital Tools Guide for Faculty
- Digital Tools Guide for FacultyThis is a guide to support, resources and tutorials for digital tools available for your use as a Catawba College instructor. This includes information about Blackboard and Bb LTI resources, Respondus, Library resources and more.
Content Area Guides
The library can create a customized research guide for your department, school or content area. Below is one example, the research guide for Counseling.
- Counseling Research guideThis guide is meant to give an overview of materials and resources available at the Catawba College Library for researchers in counseling.
Course Specific Guides
The library can also create research guides for a specific class or assignment using library resources. Below is one example from an English 1103 course. These guides can also be easily embedded into your Blackboard course.
- English 1103 (Collander)Welcome to the research guide for your ENGL 1103 class and the "Genre Study Infographic" paper/project. I hope you will find this guide helpful in deciding what type of sources to use, where to find high quality sources and how to cite these sources. I will also provide some Pre-research strategies which might be helpful as well as some tools to check your sources, citations and a draft of your paper.
Learn about new Tech!
The library can also create research guides on topics related to emerging technology and digital resources. The guide below is an introduction to Chat GPT and Artificial Intelligence.
- Getting Started with Chat GPT and Generative Artificial IntelligenceIntroduction to Generative AI and Chat GPT resources provided by the Corriher-Linn-Black Library at Catawba College.