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Embedded Librarianship

Having an embedded librarian in your course is highly customizable way to integrate research support into your course. An embedded librarian can be as involved as the instructor would like, but often includes some of the following elements:

Adding the librarian to your Canvas course, allowing him or her to add library resources or respond to student questions when appropriate.
- Example: You have assigned a research project for the final. One of the related assignments is for the students to submit their research question to a Canvas discussion. The embedded librarian can then respond to students' posts with database and search strategy suggestions.

Instruction tailored to your students' needs and interests
- Example: By meeting with you and reading your students' research questions, the embedded librarian knows that many students are going to need to access economic census data. He or she visits class and demonstrates how to use the economic census website.
- Example: Students meet the embedded librarian in class and establish a relationship with him or her. They then feel comfortable making an appointment when they get stuck at any point during the research process.

Support in strengthening your research assignments
- Example: You share your students' final papers (with names removed) with the embedded librarian. He or she notices that students are struggling to integrate secondary sources into their papers. The embedded librarian suggests that next year you require that students submit an annotated bibliography earlier in the semester. He or she creates a workshop for students to talk through different ways that prior research can support their projects.

Teaching and Research with Artificial Intelligence

Are you interested in integrating artificial intelligence into your teaching or research? Your librarian can...

Work with you to create assignments that give students the opportunity to leverage the power of AI, while still strengthening their human intelligence
Show you how to use AI tools for your own research (and offer warning about what to be wary of)
Help you fine tune the AI policy that you implement in your courses
Answer (or find the answer to) questions that you have about AI and copyright and AI and academic integrity

Collaborative Instructional Design

Librarians and teaching faculty make a powerful team when it comes to instructional design. Your librarian is available to help you workshop your curriculum to include more opportunities for inquiry.
Are you looking for a way to go beyond traditional undergraduate assignments? Speak to your librarian about how you can implement digital humanities methods in your classroom.

One-Shot Sessions

"One-shot" sessions are the most common form of information literacy instruction and usually include a general overview of fundamental library skills like navigating the website, using the catalog, and navigating databases.
- This type of basic instruction is most appropriate for lower-level courses.
- A well-executed one-shot requires librarian-instructor collaboration to ensure that the material covered is specific to the course. Otherwise, one-shots become repetitive to students who likely experience them in multiple courses.
To make the most of our time together, one-shots are best scheduled after students have had the chance to navigate library resources on their own. This way, they come to class with an idea of what barriers they may encounter.
- It is helpful to have students already know their topic and have attempted to find 1-3 scholarly articles to support their project.
- If students need help with getting to that point, we have several video resources that can assigned.

Locating Case Studies in Databases

Select your database from Databases A-Z > Advanced Search > Publication Type > Case Study

Where to Find Free and Open Access Case Studies

Business Ethics

Statistical Analysis

Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics: CSBIGS

Sustainability

Employee Owned Companies

Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

Marketing

Marketing Sherpa (limit content type by "Case Studies" on the left)

General Business

What is grey literature?

A Definition of "Grey Literature":

"information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing, where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body"
-ICGL Luxembourg definition, 1997. Expanded in New York, 2004 http://www.greylit.org/about

Examples of Grey Literature Types

Some examples of grey literature include:

Government publications
White papers produced by private consultancies
Academic dissertations and theses
Research reports published by not-for-profits, think tanks, or trade organizations
Unpublished clinical trials
Blogs

Please see Document Types in Grey Literature for a full list of grey literature document types, managed by GreyNet

The content of this block is from http://www.greylitguides.com/introduction/. 

Where to find grey literature

Grey literature on any one topic is notoriously hard to locate because it comes from such a wide variety of sources.

This page aggregates a number of guides to searching for grey literature: Searching for Grey Literature.

If you are looking for grey literature on a specific topic, contact your librarian and they will be able to provide support and offer suggestions.

Additionally, see the Government Information tab.

Data.gov Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. (308,027 datasets available)

Economic Census Data Tables, files, and complete datasets from the US Economic Census.

NAICS - North American Industry Classification System Provides classification number for business sectors.

SEC Filings and Forms (Edgar) The SEC requires all public companies (except foreign companies and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR.

South Carolina Department of Commerce Helpful information about S.C. business.

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Numbers Search database for SIC numbers.

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