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Introduction

As employees, we are all expected to continue our teaching and/or research work, during the COVID-19 remote working and teaching. Librarians are available to help you ease this transition to working from home and teaching online. Here is a link to expanded free resources available for teaching and research during COVID-19 (Links to an external site.).. Links to an external site.

Links to an external site.Pedagogies of Care Links to an external site., resources that provides free student-centered caring-focused resources to adapt to post-COVID teaching practices by authors of a Teaching and Learning book series. (general article overview on the Educause website Links to an external site.).

Situation Needs

Researching or Teaching from Home: Changing times require new strategies and support tactics if we are to survive the COVID-19 era as you are working at home. Librarians are working at home too; conducting research, teaching and supporting faculty, staff and students. Reach out to us!

Online Teaching: We can help you find resources for your courses and also help your students develop information literacy skills through Canvas or Zoom.

The IDEAS framework for teaching online (Educause Website Links to an external site.)
Martin, F., Ritzhaupt, A., Kumar, S., & Budhrani, K. (2019). Award-winning faculty online teaching practices: Course design, assessment and evaluation, and facilitation. The Internet and Higher Education, 42, 34-43. (abstract Links to an external site.)

We are ready to partner with you for student success!

Four Library Research Learning Outcomes Download Four Library Research Learning Outcomes - to help guide your research assignment planning.
Teaching Guidelines and the Course Design process Download Teaching Guidelines and the Course Design process - how librarians can help support all stages of the teaching and learning process

Strategies & Skills

Research

Document Management & Curation

What type of data do you collect? read an article Links to an external site. about how libraries can help scholars collect and curate scholarly documents and data
Need a place to store your scholarship and make it accessible? Use the library institutional repository, Uspace Links to an external site.
File management and file naming conventions are more important than you think. Check out Rebekah Cummings' Research Guide about Social Science Data Management Links to an external site.and the Files and Folders Guide Links to an external site. by Daureen Nesdill
Need to store data? Email and we can connect you to the U of U Hive: University of Utah Research Data Repository Links to an external site.experts or help you find a data repository

Grants & Funding

Pivot-RP Links to an external site. is a database to help you find funding opportunities. You can also set up a scholarly profile, find collaborators and even publishing opportunities.
- Pivot-RP Tutorials Links to an external site.
Research Education Links to an external site. provides a catalog of free workshops and courses on funding and grant writing as well data management for grants and planning evaluation plans for grants

Teaching Library Research

Designing Library Research Assignments

Do you have assignments that require students to access or evaluate information or existing research? These are great opportunities to ask a librarian for help.
- We can guest lecture in your class to talk about finding and using library research (in person or on zoom)
- We can facilitate a Library FAQ discussion in your Canvas course
- We can help design research assignments that align to your course outcome
- Are you interested in encouraging students to explore a variety of resources?
  - Check out the BEAM Method Research Guide Links to an external site. for information about how to structure assignments that encourage students to look for a variety of sources.
  - Use the SIFT method Links to an external site. to teach lateral reading skills

- Integrating Library Student Learning Outcomes into your course provides some examples of how a librarian can help you integrate the library into your canvas courseGet help integrating library research into your online course this summer
- Strategies for Designing and Teaching Library Research in the Digital Age -presentation and resources that provide strategies for teaching library research in the age of technology
- One-Shot library instruction & beyond Resources
- The AACU Information Literacy Rubric Download AACU Information Literacy Rubric

Textbooks & Media

Ask the textbook advisor team Links to an external site. to review your current textbook or recommend an alternative
Open Educational Resources (OERs)
- OER Textbooks Links to an external site.
- Annual teaching Symposium presentation on using OERS in teaching
- 2023 OER Symposium video presentations Links to an external site. on OERs, Pressbooks, and Open Pedagogy
- Merlot: Links to an external site. Online learning activities and materials you can integrate into your online course
Course Reserves Links to an external site. and Course Materials (Leganto) directions Links to an external site. for faculty

Copyright & Fair Use

Use the Fair Use Evaluator Links to an external site. to evaluate your reasoning for teaching materials selection
Contact our copyright librarian, Allyson Mower Links to an external site.

Tools & Resources

Citation Management

Interested in organizing your research articles? Check out the citation managers page, which has information about best practices for using EndNote, Mendeley, or Zotero
- Here is more detailed information on each tool: Endnote Basic (Links to an external site.), Mendeley (Links to an external site.) and Zotero
Rebekah Cumming's Zotero tutorial Links to an external site.
APA 7th edition resources Links to an external site.

Storage & Sharing

Box Links to an external site. - HIPAA and FERPA compliant or use the U of U Google Space
Microsoft Office 365 Tutorials (Links to an external site.) (on Microsoft website)
The U of U Google Drive Links to an external site. Cloud site for collaboration (login with your UNID)

Video Creation & Classroom Options

Use the One button Studio Links to an external site. on level 2 of the Marriott Library to record lectures or interviews
Canvas and Kaltura Information and Tutorials Links to an external site.
- Making a Canvas video course announcement

Publishing

Scholarly Profile

Are you interested in learning more about the impact factor of journals to make it easier to decide where to publish?

Would you like information about how often your work has been cited that you can use in your faculty report or retention, promotion and tenure file. Check out this guide Links to an external site. to learn more about how to find this information.
- Attend classes through Research Education Links to an external site. on scholarly profiles and metrics
- Schedule a consultation with Alfred or Lorelei

Writing & Productivity

How to make time for research and writing (The Chronicle article Links to an external site.)

Read/review Allyson Mower's book recommendations: Seven Great Books About Scholarly Publishing Links to an external site.

Journals & Publishers

Contact Researcher & Author Services Links to an external site.for help with selecting a journal, get help with a publishing agreement and much more
Scimago ranking of journals Links to an external site.and the Journal Citation reports database Links to an external site., and Journal list Links to an external site. in ERIC

Support & People

Research

Research From Home

Research from home can be challenging, but now is a great opportunity to complete those items which you know you should do, but just haven't prioritized it yet.... like creating all those scholarly profiles and getting your metrics for your upcoming RPT review

Need help teaching your students about the library and doing research?
- We can meet for one on one or small research group consultation
- Help finding grant opportunities
- Managing your citation libraries and PDFs
- Creating (and implementing) LabArchives. Links to an external site. which is an electronic notebook
- Submitting your manuscripts and/or data to our institutional repositories (USpace Links to an external site. & The Hive: University of Utah Research Data Repository Links to an external site.)
Sending your students to the librarians for background literature help
Do you want to request that the library purchase something for the collections? FIll out the Suggest a Purchase form Links to an external site. here.

Interested in learning more about how to manage data? We also have resources available that cover best practices for creating data management plans Links to an external site.. Daureen Nesdill's Research Guides on Data Management Repositories Links to an external site. and Data Storage Links to an external site..

Teaching

Integrate Library Research Into Course

Options for Teaching with a Librarian

Invite us to class - we can cover many subjects, such as forming a research question, , searching for literature, finding scholarly articles, evaluating information
- We can talk about library research on zoom in your class
- We can facilitate a Library FAQ discussion in your course
- We can help design research assignments that align to your course outcomes
The library's textbook advisor team Links to an external site. can help you with textbook selection and course reserve options
With COVID-19 and the University's strategic plans, many classes are now being taught online.
- We can create research guides Links to an external site. or online canvas pages to supplement your course
- We can design flipped instruction, online instruction, or come to your class for face-to-face (F2F) instruction

Additional Teaching Resources

Don't recreate the wheel or spend time finding teaching strategies and best practices!

There are units on campus to help and curated collections of resources on particular approaches and topics to explore.

Tools & Resources

Check out these guides to learn more about where to find streamed media Links to an external site. and where to find media in the Marriott Library. Links to an external site. Do you need to request a video to stream for your class? Fill out the Media Request form Links to an external site. here.

The University of Utah Libraries have access to several programs for statistical analysis, including R, SPSS, and Stata. Check out this page to find out more!

The Library also provides support for qualitative research tools such as NVivo Links to an external site. and Atlas.ti. Links to an external site. We provide one-on-one, dissertation support, as well as, research group consultations.

The NNLM Data Competencies Links to an external site.: Data Management resources for research and teaching data management in your courses.

SELF

Being in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis has brought some topics to the forefront related to self care, health and work-life balance

Work-life balance is very important for faculty, college students, especially non-traditional students with families and/or working jobs
- UMatch Links to an external site. - a bulletin board to find childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic
- UEN information about learning at home Links to an external site. for parents
Health
- U of U Wellness exercise videos (Links to an external site.)
- Read about the relationship of stress reduction and exercise and college students
- Kaplan, S. (1995). The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework (Links to an external site.). Journal of environmental psychology, 15(3), 169-182. (an article that has been cited over 4,500 times and counting)
- Identify implicit bias - take quizzes (Links to an external site.) and read the book Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (Links to an external site.)
- Explore the Leisure Studies journal (Links to an external site.) to look at the variety of topics that constitute 'leisure'
- 23 healthy foods (Links to an external site.)everyone should know how to cook

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