Support for Academic Staff
The Library aims to support academic staff in both their teaching and research by:
- Providing Information Skills training for your students - Find out More or Request Training
- Ensuring that we have sufficient copies in stock of the readings you recommend to your students - Submit a Reading List
- Acquiring the books, journals and other information resources necessary to support your research - Order Books and Journals
- Supporting your research and helping you measure your impact - Support for your Research
Embedding Information Literacy in the Curriculum
The Library is committed to ensuring that all our students gain the lifelong skills of Information Literacy. We believe that these skills are best delivered within the context of the student's academic programme of study. To find out more please see our guide to Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum or our short guide to Embedding Information Literacy into the Curriculum . Contact your subject librarian to find out more about how we can embed Information Skills provision into your module or academic programme.
Academic Staff - let us help you reduce your admin workload
- Send us your reading lists and we’ll ensure that there are sufficient copies in stock for your students.
- Reduce your admin work, by letting us take care of ordering new books and deciding how many copies we should have.
- Improve student feedback for your module by ensuring better availability of reading list material.
Linking to Library Resources from Blackboard?
If you are linking your students to library online resources from within Blackboard, it is important to ensure that those resources will be accessible from off-campus. To do this please insert the following before the URL of the resource you are linking to:
For example, if you were linking to the journal Nature, whose URL is http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/index.html, you would provide a link to:
This will ensure that your students are prompted to login to NUI Galway and so be recognised as authorised NUI Galway users.
Who Can Help?
Your Subject Librarian will be delighted to help you in any way they can in support of teaching and learning. The more we know about your taught programmes and modules, the better we can support your students, so please meet your Subject Librarian regularly to discuss programme needs.
Your Research Librarian will be delighted to support your research in any way they can.
If there are more ways in which the Library can support you as a member of academic staff, please let us know by emailing monica.crump@nuigalway.ie.
