A Books á la Carte Class visit can provide research specific to your classroom to help your students:

• Reduce library anxiety
• Check out resources from the cart based on topics provided by instructor
• Ask a librarian quick reference questions outside of the library
• Select handouts created by librarians on citing and evaluating various source types.

To maximize the effectiveness of your research instruction session please prepare for the following:

• Sessions must be requested at least 1 week in advance.
• Assignments must be sent to maryanne.mills@westvalley.edu at least 3 days in advance.
• Instructors must attend the book cart session with the class.
• Remind students that they need their G0 number to borrow a book.
• Read the West Valley College Library Policies.
• To maximize student usage of the materials on the cart, please consider ways to encourage your students to check out materials from the cart prior to our visit.
• The book cart visit is weather permitting. If rain or a chance rain is in the forecast, Maryanne will contact you the day prior to reschedule.