Information for Faculty

Library and Information Literacy Instruction

The Library encourages you to integrate information literacy assignments in your courses. Library staff can design information literacy instruction in a variety of ways:

• Classroom instruction - instruction and demonstration of information resources
• Custom Web pages- Library staff can design Web pages tailored to your assignments that bring relevant resources together in one place for your students, including animated tutorials that can be used in Blackboard.
• Help with library assignments – Library staff can help you design successful library assignments that meet your information literacy goals for your students.
• Contact David Gray or Joyce Earhart at the Middletown Campus, or Linda Harper at the Fauquier Campus for more information.

Reserves and E-Reserves

You can place materials on Reserve at either library for your students to access. It is up to you if the material can be taken outside of the library, and for how long students may keep it. You can place all types of material on reserves, including books, photocopies, VHS or DVD films, software on CD-ROM. Library staff can also place electronic copies of print materials on E-Reserve in Blackboard. For more information, contact Alice Seabright at the Middletown Campus or Rebecca Shieler at the Fauquier Campus, or David Gray for E-Reserves.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Request a book or other item that the LFCC Libraries do not own.

Off-Campus Access to Library Resources

Faculty can access library databases from off-campus. Click on a database link and you will be asked for your VCCS username and password. Use the same username and password you do when logging in to Blackboard or your VCCS e-mail. Help with usernames and passwords is available in MY LFCC.

Request Materials for Purchase

Faculty are encouraged to request materials for the Library to purchase to support teaching and learning. Please contact David Gray at the Middletown Campus or Linda Harper at the Fauquier Campus. For more information, please see the Collection Development policy.