Liaison Librarians can identify opportunities for Instruction by interaction with Faculty.

Here are a few examples:

• Course-Integrated Instruction: Review the semester course offerings list to determine which classes might afford instruction opportunities, i.e. those classes which are designated as WI (Writing Intensive Course in the Major), or those courses in which the titles specifically indicate the course requires research. The Liaison Librarian contacts the Faculty member(s) teaching these courses, to ascertain if an instruction component would be appropriate, and personally schedules the instruction session.

• Orientations: Contact your assigned Liaison areas, and determine if new faculty/student orientations or receptions are being held at the beginning of semesters at which Library Resources and Services can be presented.

• Take the opportunity to talk with Faculty about instruction at Liaison meetings, receptions, faculty meetings, academic presentations and other venues which Faculty attend.

• Faculty research questions at Reference Desks (or in Virtual Reference), may also present an ideal opportunity, not only to address their specific query, but also to schedule an instruction session related to their question (i.e. database selections and search strategies).

• Instructional Labs which the Liaison can schedule for instruction sessions.

• Library Instruction and Information Literacy on the Library site.
• Students can enhance their knowledge of specialized software (eg. Adobe®) to create multimedia projects, assignments and course-related activities.  Students can also obtain help with writing projects, library research, and technology support in the WRT Zone (Writing, Research & Technology).

• The Libraries have developed Learning Tools which assist students in locating resources and planning assignments.

• Liaison Librarians have developed Subject Resources and Guides for many disciplines and topics that offer a wealth of information for instruction sessions.  Instruction videos and handouts can be easily added to your LibGuide by Reusing Existing Widgets (Videos) and Documents (Handouts) and Links. Standard boxes like Ask-a-Librarian can be copied and reused from on the @Boxes LibGuide. 
• Liaison Librarians have Camtasia®installed on their desktops. Camtasia®can be used to design videos.  Liaisons are encouraged to contact Veronica Bielat for advice and guidance in producing online tutorials, etc.  Click on this link for TechSmith Camtasia Tutorials.

• The WSU Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL) (within the Technology Resource Center) offers workshops on a wide variety of teaching and presentation topics.