Greetings from CMLL. I was hoping you are available to give a library resource tour for my summer graduate research course on June 8, from 2-4 pm. Are you still the CMLL contact person?  

Just to give you some background on the course, it is entitled “CMLL 5301 Fundamentals of Research & Scholarship, Academic Communication in Language Studies”, and it is focused on helping graduate students write better research papers. During the semester they will analyze academic writing, and then write a summary and critique of an article before they then have to write their own paper (including annotated bibliography and abstract).

I would like the students to tour the library in the first week to identify resources (physical resources, online databases, & ILL) in the areas of language studies. After the tour they will have to find 5 articles in their subject area as the basis of an assignment (analyzing an article and then writing a summary.)

Could you conduct such a tour? The class has 6 students (current count), and they are all Spanish and English graduate students (MA & Ph.D.) I assume they have used some library resources before, but most likely lack a deeper knowledge of how to find and identify good articles (without google!)

My class meets 2-4pm, I was hoping to schedule Thursday, June 8, but Wednesday, June 7, or Friday, June 9, could also work. What makes it a little tricky,  is that I’m in Germany on a scholarship until June 10, so the students will be following written instructions from me.

Anita McChesney

Assistant Professor of German

Texas Tech University

Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures

2906 18th St.

Lubbock, TX 79409

Tel (806) 834-8195

Fax (806) 742-3306