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Services to Support Teaching

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What We Offer

The Bio-Medical Library supports teaching through integrated instruction, personalized workshops and other support mechanisms. We would like to assist you by coordinating our resources to be effectively utilized in both the areas of teaching and research.

In addition to those services listed on the right we have the ability to individualize library orientations, instruction and presentations in order to meet the specific needs of a particular class.

Please contact us through the reference desk at 612-626-3260 or by email: medref@umn.edu.

Course Integrated Instruction

Librarians work with professors, teaching assistants, and staff to improve information literacy by providing in class instruction for print and electronic resources. Classes are tailored to the specific needs of the students and instructor in order to optimize their library research. In addition assistance is also available through the AHC Learning Commons.

CourseLib Web Pages

Resources and services identified collaboratively by professors, teaching assistants and librarians for use with specific courses. For examples please see: http://courses.lib.umn.edu/

Library Workshops

Each semester the library offers a series of workshops to enhance and improve an individuals' information seeking skills. Classes include: MEDLINE, PubMed, molecular biology databases, along with other topics including database searching, information resources, and web/software technology.  A list of the current offerings is located on our Workshops Page

Consultations - small group, one on one

Students, faculty, and staff may request one on one or small group consultations to provide in- depth reference assistance with health and biomedical science-related topics. Request a Consultation


Last Updated: February 21, 2007, 10:20 am