LibGuides: Library Services and Resources for Faculty: Overview

Introduction

The Frances Willson Thompson Library is dedicated to helping the University of Michigan's students, faculty, and staff in their academic and professional pursuits.

This guide should explain the library services for faculty to help with their instructional and research needs, as well as any library policies specific to faculty.

If you have additional questions about the library, please ask a librarian!

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Library Instruction Session Request Form
Please fill out this form to request an instruction session.
Course Reserve Form (editable PDF)
Please use this form to submit items for course reserve.

How to add library resources to your Blackboard course
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Streaming Media Databases

Alexander Street
Combined search platform for ASP text, audio, and video collections.

Search across all video, audio, and text collections provided by Alexander Street Press. By making your own account, you can save and share clips and playlists. Audio and video recordings can be downloaded to an Apple OS or Android phone, available for 48 hours. A complete list of the collections within Alexander Street Press is available online.
Kanopy Streaming Video
Over 30,000 documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors.

Kanopy Streaming offers a variety of documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active, California Newsreel, Checkerboard Films, Criterion Collection/Janus films, Documentary Educational Resources, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber Edu, Media Education Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, and the DEFA Film Library's (East) German Film Collection.

All videos work on PCs with Flash, iPads, iPhones, and mobile devices. To facilitate teaching, they can be projected in lecture halls, embedded in authenticated web pages, and watched off-campus (with login) with unlimited simultaneous viewers. Users can also create Playlists and make clips.

Avoiding Plagiarism Workshops, Webinars, and Blackboard Course

Avoiding Plagiarism Workshops & Webinars Registration
Register for the current semester's Avoiding Plagiarism workshops and webinars.
Avoiding Plagiarism | Blackboard Self-enroll Course
A self-enroll Blackboard course to help students understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. The course consist of two half hour tutorials and two review quizzes. The quiz results can be shared via email.

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To enroll:
1. Login Blackboard
2. Click the above link, which should take you to a search result page with the class listed. You can also search for "Avoiding Plagiarism" using the "Organization Search" in Blackboard.
3. Hover over the small drop-down arrow to the right of the Organization ID and select "Enroll" from the drop-down menu.

Library Services and Resources for Faculty

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