The document outlines the various services provided by a university library, including online resources, circulation of physical and technological materials, reference support, assistance available throughout the physical library spaces, and programming events. It discusses the goals of each service, such as supporting teaching and student learning, and provides examples of specific types of help that are available, such as creating online course content, offering equipment loans, and showcasing student and faculty work. The overall document serves to introduce faculty to the full range of library resources and how each can be leveraged to enrich teaching and the student experience.

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2. Online
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3. What is it?
• Goal: Integrated system
• Websites (LibGuides)
• Videos/Screencasts
• Interactive Tutorials
• Interested? Please let me know!
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4. Why do we do it?
• Support your teaching
• Support library teaching
• Support students at their point-of-need
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5. What can we do for you?
• Create a course website
• Create screencasts or videos to support
your assignments
• Enable online, blended, or flipped
teaching models
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6. Circulation
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7. What is it?
• Circulation (materials)
• Circulation (technology)
• Reserves
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8. Why do we do it?
• Enable access to physical materials
• Provide access to/be a sandbox for
consumer technologies
• Provide materials for faculty research
and to support student assignments
• Support courses through reserves
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9. What can we do for you?
• Equipment
• Bookrunner
• Notices via text message
• Reserves
• Reciprocal Borrowing
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10. Reference
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11. What is it?
• Research support
• Point-of-need
• Personalized and in-depth
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12. Why do we do it?
• Navigate the library’s systems
• catalogs, databases, discovery layers,
organizational structure
• Learning at the students’ point-of-need,
provides a high return
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13. What can we do for you?
• Help identify challenging aspects of
assignments for students
• Be a resource that you can list on your
syllabus
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14. Point-of-Need
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15. What is it?
• The Rover Program
• Also emerges across Learning
Environments:
• Online
• Reference
• Spaces
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16. Why do we do it?
• Learn more about our users
• Understand how students are learning
in a physical learning environment: how
they collaborate, what tools they use,
etc.
• Provide help throughout the building
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17. What can we do for you?
• Share what we know about student
learning in context
• Be a resource you can share with your
students: if they’re unsure how to find
things, are confused about the building,
etc.
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18. Spaces
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19. What is it?
• Communities:
• 1st floor learning spaces
• 2nd floor “Commons” and 4th floor group
study
• 3rd and 5th quiet floors
• Technology throughout the building
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20. Why do we do it?
• Not just a study space:
• Space designed for learning
• Intentionally designed to meet the
needs identified by collaborative and
multimedia projects
• Grounded in data about how students use
the space
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21. What can we do for you?
• We can support collaborative projects
you might assign
• We can support multimedia projects you
might assign
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22. Programming
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23. What is it?
• Partners (Writing Center, Comm Lab,
ePortfolios, Career Services, etc.)
• Course exhibits
• Programming
• PAWS, Visible Scholars, etc.
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24. Why do we do it?
• Library as interdisciplinary hub
• Exposure to ideas
• Showcase campus scholarship (both
faculty and students)
• Highlight Virginia Tech’s innovations
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25. What can we do for you?
• Showcase your students’ work
• Showcase your work
• Host academic events for your
discipline
• “Match-make” with other classes with
similar goals and learning outcomes
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