{"id":87,"date":"2025-11-26T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:19:41","slug":"instruction-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/help-research-support\/instruction-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Instruction Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our team of professional librarians provide information sessions on a variety of topics and strategies specific to the topics, assignments, and learning outcomes of your course. Some of our regular instruction topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing research questions by exploring scholarly sources<\/li>\n<li>Finding, evaluating, and using information resources<\/li>\n<li>Navigating the Libraries website for research tools and databases<\/li>\n<li>Organizing research sources with citation manager such as Zotero, EndNote Basic, or Mendeley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to Request Instruction<\/h2>\n<p>Faculty and instructors may request instruction by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/help-research-support\/subject-specialists\/\">connecting to their Subject Specialist here<\/a>, or submitting the form below with the following information:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Your name and email address or phone number<\/li>\n<li>Course name and number<\/li>\n<li>Number of students in the class<\/li>\n<li>Any specific research goals you would like the librarian to cover<\/li>\n<li>Preferred location for instruction, such as Mugar 302 (Estin Room)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We look forward to collaborating with you to best serve your class!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/help-research-support\/ask-a-librarian\/\">Ask a Librarian<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"dialogue dialogue-info\">To request Special Collections instruction services, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/visit-study\/locations\/howard-gotlieb-archival-research-center\/archival-instruction-services\/\">Archival Instruction Services.<\/a><\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our team of professional librarians provide information sessions on a variety of topics and strategies specific to the topics, assignments, and learning outcomes of your course. Some of our regular instruction topics include: Developing research questions by exploring scholarly sources Finding, evaluating, and using information resources Navigating the Libraries website for research tools and databases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/5151"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}