Library Instruction Guidelines

• Contact the Instruction Coordinator AT LEAST two weeks prior to the session to reserve the instruction room and discuss your needs. Please have an alternative date in mind in case the time you request is unavailable.

• Schedule the library instruction session for a time AFTER students have been given their assignment and will actually need to use the library. The timing of library instruction is CRUCIAL to student motivation and learning.

• Library instruction sessions will generally not be scheduled during the first week of the semester.

• No more than six classes will be scheduled per week, when at full staff. All librarians in the Reference & Instruction department have regular hours they must serve at the Reference Desk as well as Library and University commitments.

• Classes or workshops dealing with library instruction are given first priority for use of the Electronic Classroom. The classroom is available for reservation to other campus groups for one time use within 1 week of the event (contact Coordinator of Instruction for reservation details). Campus groups wishing to reserve the room on a regular, ongoing basis must receive prior permission from the University Librarian.

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Electronic Classroom Policy

The primary purpose of the Electronic Classroom is the teaching of bibliographic instruction sessions by Library faculty members.

• All Exceptions are subject to approval by the University Librarian in consultation with the Policies & Procedures Committee.
• The schedule for the electronic classroom (Room 241), will be kept online. No scheduling is to be considered official until the class is logged into the online schedule; no faculty member has the right to displace another faculty member on the schedule without his/her expressed permission.
• Classes may be scheduled
  1. by contacting Jolene Wertz, the Instruction Coordinator at jolene.wertz@gcsu.edu or x0989
  2. by using the online form
  3. by contacting the subject liaison for the academic department. When not in use for a class, the Electronic Classroom is off-limits to anyone other than library staff & faculty and should remain locked.
• Classes or workshops dealing with library instruction are given first priority for use of the Electronic Classroom. The classroom is available for reservation to other campus groups for one time use within 1 week of the event (contact the Instruction Coordinator for reservation details). Campus groups wishing to reserve the room on a regular, ongoing basis must receive prior permission from the University Librarian.

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