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Meet with a librarian at the beginning of a semester to go over the syllabus and assignments.
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Provide copies of assignments to the reference librarians.
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Talk with a librarian about strategies to avoid plagiarism.
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Consider putting some materials on Reserve.
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Work with a librarian on an assessment tool.
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Break research assignments into manageable pieces with checkpoints along the way.
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Encourage students to find scholarly material through the article databases available on the library web website and cite them properly.
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Include the evaluation, analysis, and application of information as part of the research process.
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Clarify terminology with students (ex: magazine, journal, peer-reviewed) (ex: library database vs. Web).
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Arrange for a librarian to visit your classroom for a portion of a class (or schedule your class to visit the library) for a specific purpose (ex: demo a specific database; show how to do alerts or rss feeds from library databases; demo how to use an online citation manager; teach APA or MLA citation styles; etc.)