Learning Commons Services & Resources

Contact Hope Le Jeune to schedule a session.

Important notes:

• Book your class for a library session no later than two weeks in advance of the day of the session. This is particularly important for evening and weekend classes.
   
• Timing is critical to ensure the success of the session. Librarians design the information literacy session based on your students' research stage upon their arrival in the Library. 
   
• Provide a digital copy of the research-based assignment that is tied to the session.
   
• Consider and share the following information:
  • When the assignment will be given to students
  • When the assignment will be due
  • Days and times of your class
  • Class culture and information literacy challenges that you have noticed
     
• Would you please tell us your expectations for the session and how they will influence the assignment results?
   
• Think about having a follow-up session to cover more information literacy aspects related to your assignment. It isn't easy to cover multiple information literacy skills in one session.

Library instruction in the Learning Commons is focused on building information literacy and multimodal fluency. Our instruction follows the Association of College and Research Library frameworks (2015) and standards (2011).  Our instruction goals are to train students to access, evaluate, and ethically use information.

The framework on which our goals are developed are:

• Authority is constructed and contextualized
• Information creation as a process
• information has value
• Research as inquiry
• Scholarship as a conversation
• Searching as conversation

We offer tech support for all of the devices you may encounter in the Learning Commons. Visit our LC Technology Support page here for more information!

Suggesting Material For Purchase

The Learning Commons builds its collection of material to support the curriculum and independent research of the LSC-Kingwood community.

If you would like us to consider purchasing a specific digital or print item for use in your classes or for general research use, please check the catalog. If you can't find what you're looking for, contact your liaison librarian about any information resources (books, videos, etc.) that you would like to use in your class and research themes that your students will be exploring. Your library team needs time to be able to order, move through any legal contracts (if needed), cataloging and processing of the material. This can take more than a month.
 

Accessing Course Material

The library's goal is to help students have access to course material. This includes putting desk copies on reserve and acquiring digital and/or print material for various instructional purposes. Please contact your librarian for more information. Students and staff can access current course material HERE!

Accessing Material From a Library Outside Our Consortium

• Interlibrary Loan Request Form 
  Submit an interlibrary loan request form to request materials outside of the Lone Star College, Harris County, and Montgomery County library systems.