Our librarians help students develop the research skills they need to succeed at UNLV and beyond.
Instruction and assignment design collaboration
Research instruction
Face-to-face or online instruction customized for your students, assignment, and course
Research assignments
Effective assignments that incorporate research skills and resources
Guides and tutorials
Research and course guides and tutorials that can be linked from your course website
In the classroom
Tutorials
Research Guides
Schedule Instruction
Workshops for Grad students & Researchers
Assessment
Assessment Projects & Results
Our instruction services support the following learning goals and outcomes:
Question
Students will be able to identify a research question that is appropriate in scope and feasibility in order to guide a research project.
Explore
Students will be able to develop and apply search strategies in order to locate sources to fill information needs. They will demonstrate flexibility and persistence as they revise their strategies. Students will be able to find information from a variety of types of sources in order to address a research problem.
Analyze
Students will be able to evaluate information sources for different uses in order to complete research projects. They will apply critical thinking in order to determine the reliability, applicability and responsible use of the resource.
Extend
Students will contribute to the scholarly conversation at an appropriate level and credit the contributing work of others in their creation of new information.
Connect
Students will feel connected to and empowered by library spaces, resources, faculty, and staff.