Librarians are available to meet with faculty, staff, and students either individually or in groups to support a variety of research projects, including those pertaining to personal research and collection needs, instructional and assignment design, citation management, search strategies, and much more.
You can schedule an appointment with us:
The Library provides support for copyright education and compliance at Ringling College. For more information, please see the Copyright Research Guide.
For questions on copyright, fair use, and intellectual property, please contact Bianca Prather-Jones, Director of Library Services.
Instructional Design Initial meeting with Instructional Design Librarian: 1-2 hours, Follow-ups as necessary
Research Guides Initial meeting with Instructional Design Librarian: 1 hour, 2-3 weeks for creation
Please note that Librarians cannot:
Librarians are available to visit your class or have your class visit the Library to learn about resources or research methods that will be helpful for your course assignments or studio processes. Classes are tailored to discipline-based research or to specific course assignments. Some examples of topics that we often cover are:
We ask that you abide by the following guidelines when scheduling an instructional session:
With or without a class visit, librarians can also create an online research guide tailored specifically to your course. These guides can point students to important resources, include step-by-step instructions for navigating particular databases, offer research tips and search strategies, and more. Please allow 2-3 weeks for research guide completion.
Requests for library research instruction should be sent to the Instructional Design Librarians at research@ringling.edu.