2007-- Librarian "embedded" in HIST 15: "1968: A Year that Mattered" (33 students enrolled). Librarian explained library services and demonstrated online and print resources relevant to the themes of the course for a portion of each class session. Student completed short exercises outside of class and discussed at next class session.
2006-- Librarian co-taught HIST 12: The Unremembered Genocide: The Armenian Genocide with a history professor (11 students enrolled). One class session each week was devoted to developing research skills and conducting research. Students wrote three short papers which required use of library resources.
In evaluations for both courses, students indicated that the need for courses that teach library research skills. The two Winter Study courses allowed librarians to have sustained contact with students throughout the course and build on skills taught. However, the pass/fail nature of Winter Study makes it more difficult to motivate students to put in the effort to do their best work.
The library has offered general instruction sessions on finding books, finding journal articles, particular databases (e.g., Web of Science), particular types of information (e.g., legal information), or research tool (e.g., EndNote). These workshops were usually offered for several weeks at the middle of the semester at multiple days and times. Due to low attendance, general workshops are no longer offered.
In 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 we assigned a librarian to each first-year entry. We offered to attend entry meetings, do research appointments, and design workshops for the entry. This approach was not successful because it was not tied to students' work and depended on support from individual JAs.