Library Services and Resources for Faculty: Other Services in the Library

Located on the third floor in room L303, the Honors Institute provides a learning community where students and faculty members can interact, innovate, create, and conduct scholarly research. Contact Jane Honeycutt at 423.354.2596.

The Center for Teaching and Learning  (CTL), located in Room L204 in the Wayne G. Basler Library, operates under the auspices of Teaching Excellence and Academic Services, which operates within the division of Institutional Excellence and Student Success. The Northeast State Center for Teaching and Learning cultivates a vibrant teaching and learning culture by providing innovative, high quality, and relevant adjunct and full-time faculty professional development opportunities to facilitate student success.  To cultivate a culture of excellence, the CTL focuses on the following goals:

• Identifying best practices for teaching and learning 
• Offering continuous targeted, motivating, and inclusive faculty training opportunities
• Intentionally designing programming for faculty at specific career stages
• Developing communities of practice

For more information, please contact Jim Kelly at extension 5162 (or 423.354.5162)

There is a wide variety of media services available to you, including equipment, duplicating and production services, etc. 

You and your students may use a variety of audiovisual equipment, including laptop PCs, digital and video cameras, slide projectors, etc., for class-related work.

Please contact Eric Morritt at extension 3317 (or 354.2517) for assistance. 

The Writing Center [TWC] is located on the first floor of the Library in room L101. Writing center staff will be available to help with your essays, research, and more.  

At the Writing Center, they can help with any writing assignment for any class at any stage in the process. That means they can help you:

• brainstorm a topic
• refine your thesis
• organize a rough draft
• practice paraphrasing or incorporating source material
• understand a citation style like MLA, APA, or Turabian
• revise your work before final submission

Schedule an Appointment

The computers in the Learning Center on the first floor of the Library (L103) have copies of most of the programs that the students use on campus, as well as word processing and Internet access. 

Tutors are available and students are encouraged to ask the staff for assistance with papers, homework, and projects.