Services for Harvard Faculty and Staff

Curricular and Research Support

Group Instruction | Course Website Pages | Research Consultations

Group Instruction

Research librarians work with faculty to develop demonstrations for students of subject-specific library resources. The faculty member chooses whether we meet with students during class time, at section meetings, or at another time. We are frequently asked to demonstrate online and print resources for the study of the Bible, church history, ethics, gender, and patristics, but we can accommodate any request that supports the curriculum at Harvard Divinity School.

We offer one-on-one orientations to Harvard's extensive and ever-growing library resources for faculty and their assistants (TAs, RAs, staff, etc.). We would like to meet with you in your office for a brief consultation about new online tools and e-resources in your field. Please send your TFs and RAs to us before they embark on course- or research-related work. We can save them time. Please also refer your students to us. Students look to faculty for advice about leveraging library resources and are frequently unaware of how librarians can help. Your referrals will help students take full advantage of the Harvard University Library.

Please contact the research services staff for more information, by phone at 617.496.AHTL (2485) or by email to reference@hds.harvard.edu.

Course Website Pages

We create Do Research pages that point students to course-related library resources that are added to course websites. If you are interested having us create a Do Research page for your course websites, email Cliff Wunderlich.

Research Consultations

Call us at 617.496.AHTL (2485) or visit the reference desk to ask a quick question or make an appointment for in-depth research advice in your office. Hours (during term time, except University holidays) are:

• Monday-Thursday, 8:30 am-9 pm
• Friday, 8:30 am-6 pm

Use our Email Reference Form to send us a quick question.