Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library.  Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.
Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library.  Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.
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Request an Information Literacy Instruction Session

**Note: We are happy to teach library instruction sessions this semester in-person in one of the Main Library classrooms (or in your regular classroom), or synchronously or asynchronously via video conferencing software such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Before scheduling an Information Literacy Instruction Session, please keep some things in mind:

  • Please give us a two week notice before your first choice session. This allows us to adequately prepare for your students.
  • Please schedule your Information Literacy Instruction Session so that it coincides with your students' research assignment. We are most helpful at the students' point of need.
  • Please be flexible in your schedule. We will try to honor your first choice for a session but this isn't always possible as we are scheduling your colleagues as well.
  • We recommend using one full class time (1 hour 50 minutes or 1 hour 20 minutes depending on the class) for an Information Literacy Instruction Session. This allows your students to fully engage with new concepts and new methods.
  • Submit your syllabus and assignment to libinstr@lib.msu.edu In order to ensure maximum effectiveness for the students, we tailor our sessions to address their immediate research needs. If the students will not be working on a research assignment at the time of the scheduled library session, we strongly suggest rescheduling the session.

Required fields denoted with asterisk *.

Faculty/Instructor Information
Instruction Session 1 Information
e.g. BUS 101-007
Please submit a minimum of three options per section.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
more possible times
Instruction Session 2 Information
e.g. BUS 101-007
Please submit a minimum of three options per section.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
more possible times
Instruction Session 3 Information
e.g. BUS 101-007
Please submit a minimum of three options per section.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
Library Instruction prefers at least two weeks notice.
more possible times
Assignment Information
See tips for designing a research assignment. Please submit course syllabus and assignment via email to libinstr@lib.msu.edu.
Specific subjects or research topics discussed in class.
Any specific information emphasis (i.e. primary sources, government documents, Special Collections) that is directly related to your student needs in this course.
Any other information or detail not included in the assignment that you would like us to know.
I would like to collaborate with a librarian on library research assignments in these areas (optional).
Submitting This Form
Please note that your session is not actually approved and scheduled until an Instruction librarian contacts you to confirm one of the dates you requested.