Professional Development Opportunities: 

The following resource links are available for Faculty professional development.  

The Journal of Faculty Development

The TLPEC has provided access to the Journal of Faculty Development which publishes research and scholarship on innovation in faculty development relevant to administrators, faculty members, and faculty development professionals. The Journal is published 3 times per year. Back issues are also available on the website. This is a subscription resource. You must have a CSC email account to sign in. 

Faculty Focus

Weekly newsletter for Faculty Professional Development including Academic Leadership, Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design, Educational Assessment, Teaching with Technology and more - from the creators of The Teaching Professor at Magna Publications. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your email weekly.  

 

 

Services for Faculty

 

 

Schedule a Library Instruction Session or Tour for your class

A librarian will be happy to teach your class the basics of library research and/or provide a tour of the Library Learning Commons facilities. They can also customize instruction sessions for the unique research needs of your students. Contact the Library at 308-432-7062, to set up a library instruction session or tour, or email library@csc.edu

Want to request a library purchase for your course? 

We want to support your instruction as fully as possible.  Our collection development promotes purchasing of electronic resources to support our online community. We also continue to support print ordering when it is applicable.  

Complete a Purchase Request Form to let us know the title information and how it applies to your course(s). Requests can apply in general to a course or be supplemental reading or research on subjects being taught.  If you would like to discuss a purchase, please contact your Liaison Librarian. 

Information and Opportunities

Acceptable A.I. Use in your Courses: 

The King Library promotes appropriate A.I. use in your courses. We highly recommend documenting your expectations for A.I. Use in your Syllabi.  Contact the TLPEC for assistance or parameters. 

The King Library provides guidelines on citations for using A.I. in APA Style, MLA Style and Chicago Manual of Style on the Style Manual and Citations Guides page under Guides and Tutorials. We encourage you to be specific in your assignments regarding how you want A.I. to be cited. You can request A.I. be cited separately from other Works Cited or Reference lists. Plus, you can request information to accompany A.I. citations such as: 

  • What A.I. tool was used and how did you use it? Include exact text of the question(s) or prompt(s).
  • How did you use the A.I. tools in 1 to 3 sentences.  
  • What did you learn from using this A.I. tool?
  • How does the A.I. information support or refute your research?
  • Include a full transcript of the A.I.-generated response in the Appendix to your paper. 

Citing Content Generated by Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Tools - some general guidelines and options for citations using A.I. 

Open Educational Resource Options: 

Library Spaces specific for Faculty support: 

See the Room Reservations page for images and contact information. Rooms can be reserved by the individual scheduling a meeting when the meeting invitation is created in Outlook. Below the date and time for the meeting, 'search for a room or location' using "Library 111" or other room number. The calendar for that room will tell you if it is available at the time you want to schedule your meeting.

Teaching and Learning Collection

  • The Teaching and Learning Collection (TLC) includes titles specifically chosen to support faculty teaching pedagogy.
  • The TLC Collection is available on the upper floor of the library, to the right, around the corner from the elevator.
  • TLC Collection is part of the Teaching, Learning, and Professional Education Center (TLPEC). 

Library pages dedicated to program resources

  • The Library Liaison program offers Library Subject Guide style webpages that you can link to your program website.
  • Webpages can include program specific resources and links needed for specific courses, or in general for student guided information to the program. 
  • These Library Subject Guides are in development. See the current guides available and contact us with your creative ideas. 
  • Contact your Liaison Librarian to discuss options you would like to see on a Library webpage. 

Copyright Fair Use for Faculty

  • Fair Use Federal Statute for Educational Purposes
  • "In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
    • the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
    • the nature of the copyrighted work; 
    • the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and 
    • the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." 

Violating Fair Use: 

  • The fourth fair use factor of the effect upon the potential market of the copyrighted work means that the "limited copying of copyrighted works without permission...for...teaching and research" can only be a one time use. 
    • Planning to use a copyrighted work for a course each semester that the course is taught is a violation of the fair use policy if the work is available for sale and a critical or intent ("heart of") the work is used.

Using copyrighted works accessed by individual students as part of a course

  • It is recommended to share or direct students to electronic resources for journal articles or eBook copies of copyrighted works used in a classroom.  
    • The college subscribes to electronic resources and purchases eBooks that can be used in place printing copyrighted works. 
    • An individual student who accesses copyrighted work provided by the college through subscriptions to the work falls under the fair use of copyrighted works even if all the students of a course are required to access the same copyrighted work for the course. 

Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons Licenses build on copyright to make published material, especially internet published works, more accessible to anyone.  Typical License types are listed in the following pdf with definitions on how/what each License is listing as approved use by the author of the work. 

For more assistance with copyright, fair use, and access, please contact your Liaison Librarian or call the library.

Academic Freedom 

Academic freedom is the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.

1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure from the American Association of University Professors

Intellectual Freedom

A strong intellectual freedom perspective is critical to the development of academic library collections and services that dispassionately meet the education and research needs of a college or university community. The purpose of this statement is to outline how and where intellectual freedom principles fit into an academic library setting, thereby raising consciousness of the intellectual freedom context within which academic librarians work. 

Intellectual Freedom Principles for Academic Libraries: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights (2014)