Faculty and Staff Services

NU-Q Library provides access to a wealth of library resources and services.  All the resources you are used to accessing in the U.S. are available here – either in the collection (electronic or print) or via our regular inter-library loans service within Education City, Northwestern University and beyond.  We value your recommendations to our collection and appreciate your subject expertise in helping grow the collection.

Contact us with collection suggestions, to organize a research session for your students, or for assistance with individual research.

Review the links below to learn more about our services:

Recommend items for the collection

You are encouraged to recommend items for our collection. We rely on your subject expertise to ensure our students have the most appropriate resources for their studies and leisure needs. We also appreciate that you have leisure needs and so will attempt to fulfill these as appropriate. To recommend items for the collection, email requests to Michell Hackwelder.

Course reserves

If you have high use items that you'd like us to place on Reserve for your students, we're happy to do this.  Course Reserves are ordered via the Registrar's site on Sharepoint.  If you'd like us to put something on Reserve that is already in our collection, please email us.

Research assistance

We have access to a huge range of research tools at Northwestern. We are happy to come to your office and help you identify key library research resources. In addition, let us know how we can help you with your individual research and professional needs. Contact Gill Westera for an appointment.

We also appreciate your forwarding students to us for research assistance with their research projects. In addition, students are encouraged to follow up a class visit with an individual research consultation tailored to their information-gathering needs.

Library instruction

Schedule in-class instruction sessions to introduce students to key search strategies and evaluation techniques specific to your course projects. We are also happy to create content for your Blackboard course, including links useful resources. Evidence shows that targeted library instruction influences student approaches to research and encourages them to think more creatively about their search for information. We'd love to help prove this!

Schedule a personalized instruction session for your students with Michell or Gill.