Student Success in the Library: Librarian/Instructional Faculty Collaboration
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/collaborate.html
Instructional Faculty read this first to learn how to schedule Library orientations, how to plan effective Library assignments, and more!
 

About the Library
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/libraryinfo.html
Information about the Library, the Audio Visual Center, and the Student Computer Lab and all of our services.
 

What Instructors Need to Know About Library Services
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/ServicesForDE.htm
While geared to Distance Ed courses, this guide is actually useful for all instructors when planning their courses for the semester.
 

Library Orientation Request
http://www.ushosttech.com/chabot/library/request.cfm
Plan to bring a copy of the assignment with you to attach, and when possible, plan for a visit around two weeks before an assignment is due.  Your class would also be better off if they are required to commit to a topic by the time of the orientation.
 

Chabot College Reserve Book Request
http://tinyurl.com/4o6njk
Print out this form, fill it out then either bring to the Circulation Desk at the Library or snail mail it to Sandy Tran.
 

Library Staff
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/personnel.html
The directory listing of our full-time librarians, part-time librarians and our library technicians, ready to assist you for yours or your class's information needs. 
 

Library Subscription Databases
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dblist.html
The Library has funds through the college to provide premium, quality resources online, retrievable through a Web browser!  With a subscription of currently 22 databases that contain full-text articles from over 8,000 magazines, journals, newspapers, and printed reference resources, the College has a whole Library of materials waiting to be retrieved online, most databases even available off campus!  Take a look at our selection and quick on the question mark for point-of-use handouts on each of them!  Those databases that have a house icon are those that are available off-campus once a student gets a username and password (handouts available at the reference desk or you can obtain one electronically by contacting our reference librarian, David Butler).
 

Online Subject Index (Databases by Subject and Type of Article)
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/dbsbysubject.html
Go to this page to find the databases, reference books, and quality web sites that best suits yours and your classes' needs!  An alphabetical list organized by disciplines and by types of materials sought, this index is your gateway to finding the best resources from the Library, its databases, and selected web sites.
 

Class Handouts and Library Research Guides
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/
For some of the library orientations, we prepare handouts on how to use databases and search the catalog, as well as provide leads to quality web sites for particular assignments.  We also create Research Guides that give tips on searching the Library catalog and databases, as well as links to web sites to various subject disciplines and particular current events topics.  Take also a look at our Online Reference Shelf for more selected web sites at http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/.
 

The Online World: How Well Do Students Understand It?
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/onlineworld.html
How well do students understand the World Wide Web and what they find from Web sites found from a search engine?  Do they even begin to understand what "book" each page they find is even coming from?  Read how some students are approaching the Web and get guidelines and how you could approach student research assignments when it comes to them to searching the Web.  For more tips, consider using the Web Evaluation Checklist, listed below.
 

Web Evaluation Checklist
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evaluation.html
As students continue to use the Web for research, wouldn't it be nice if students could recognize whether the materials they found is even good or of substantive quality?  Have your students fill out the Web Evaluation checklist for the sites they find!  For more information on web page evaluation, take a look at Evaluating Web Sites.  For information on how students are actually using online search and how guidelines from faculty actually improved students' research with online sources, please take a look at the article: Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Student Citation Behavior (note: article can only be read from an on campus computer).
 

Developing a Research Strategy on Your Topic
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/ResearchStrategy.htm

Library Research: Your Search Strategy
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Eng1A/strategy.html
 

MLA Style Handout
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html
The Library provides a "Works Cited" handout for students in preparation of a Works Cited list, based on the MLA format.  For other citation uses of the MLA, APA, and the Chicago styles to research papers, go to Works Cited/Style Manuals.
 

Information Competency in the California Community Colleges
http://www.topsy.org/infocomp.html
The California Community College system will soon require all students earning degrees at Chabot College to demonstrate having "information competency," the ability to recognize information needs, find and select information materials, evaluate information resources, and organize them effectively.  Click above to learn about different information competency programs other colleges and college systems have pursued, as we at Chabot will soon plan our own information competency program!
 

Checklist of Information Competencies
http://www.topsy.org/ChecklistLoUp05.pdf
Developed by California State University and California Community College librarians and instructors, this check list provides a clear list of what skills they need to develop during their lower-division and upper-division years.  The lower-division skills should especially be focused upon in the community college environment, while some specialized certificate, AA and AS degrees may also need to focus on some of the upper-division skills as well.
 

Frequently Asked Questions for Faculty and Staff
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/faqs.html#instructors
From our Frequently Asked Questions page, this section provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions from instructional faculty.
 

New Faculty Learning Community: Library Instruction Bibliography
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/libinstructbib.html
Presented by Carol Baumann, Norman Buchwald, and Diana Immisch at the New Faculty Learning Community Workshop on March 6, 2003, this is a bibliography of resources on guidelines for effective library assignments, articles on students' research processes and information seeking behaviors, and articles and sites to effective faculty/librarian collaborations and information competency programs.