Class Projects

• Visit or call the Library, or search the Library’s online catalog here to find out what materials are available before creating your assignments.
  
• Notify the Library as far in advance as possible of the assignment and arrange for acceptable alternatives. Mass assignments on a specific subject result in the first few students borrowing all of the available materials. The Library has created a simple and brief Assignment Alert form that all teachers are encouraged to use in advance of any project assigned to students.
• Be willing to accept page or chapter references from books, magazine and newspaper articles, and/or articles from general or specialized encyclopedias or dictionaries, as well as citations from online reference sources. An entire book on a limited subject may not exist or be available at research time.
• Check for availability of materials at the appropriate reading level for your students.
• Give research assignments in writing, as early as possible. Encourage your students to bring copies of these assignment handouts with them when they visit the Library. An advance copy sent to the Library is also very helpful. Written assignments make it easier for students to accurately explain their needs.
• Give students a choice on reading lists. Be willing to let them ask a librarian to help them choose a similar title if copies of the desired title are unavailable.