This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":2500,"date":"2009-08-20T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2009-08-20T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:27:10","slug":"hsls-offers-educational-support-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/hsls-offers-educational-support-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HSLS Offers Educational Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HSLS supports the educational needs of health sciences faculty and students. Teaching faculty should be aware of the many ways HSLS can provide course assistance.<\/p>\n<p>How the library can help:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Integrated Class Sessions<\/strong><br \/>\nReference librarians are available to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/services\/instruction\/customizedinstruction\" target=\"_blank\">integrated instruction<\/a> in information skills as part of courses offered in the schools of the health sciences. Librarians can provide instruction on access to online resources, such as databases and full-text journals, and instruction on identifying and evaluating subject specific Web sites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web-based Curriculum Support<\/strong><br \/>\nWeb-based information resources can provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/services\/instruction\/customizedinstruction\" target=\"_blank\">curriculum support<\/a> to students on and off campus. Information resources include links to full-text journal articles, database searches developed by a librarian, chapters in electronic textbooks, and authoritative Web resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Reserves<\/strong><br \/>\nProvide access to required or supplemental reading materials by placing books and journal articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/services\/collection\/reserves\" target=\"_blank\">closed reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Request Books to Supplement a Course<\/strong><br \/>\nFaculty may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/services\/collection\/purchase\" target=\"_blank\">request the purchase<\/a> of materials that support teaching, study or research.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Computing Resources<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Computer and Media Center staff can assist in creating a CD-ROM that contains slides, PowerPoint presentations, image files and word documents to be used during a course. Instruction to improve presentations is available through classes such as PowerPoint or Photoshop.  Faculty may request the purchase of software applications and videos to supplement a course. Please call 412-648-9109 for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSLS supports the educational needs of health sciences faculty and students. Teaching faculty should be aware of the many ways HSLS can provide course assistance. How the library can help: Integrated Class Sessions Reference librarians are available to provide integrated instruction in information skills as part of courses offered in the schools of the health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"issue-archives","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[-1],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","avhec_catgroup-issue-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}