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Manchester Information Literacy Instruction

About Our Self-Paced Tutorials

Image by Yoli Bergstrom-Lynch

Try these self-paced tutorials developed by Manchester librarians!

Help your students to level-up their library skills and boost their confidence as researchers!

These interactive, self-paced research tutorials are designed to introduce students to key library services and resources, and to the process of conducting academic research. The tutorials cover all "stages" of the research process, including finding, evaluating, writing with, and citing scholarly sources. 

You can add any of the modules below to your Blackboard courses by copying the links. The librarians can also work closely with you to develop custom modules to support your course specific assignments and desired student learning outcomes.

For questions, please contact Yoli Bergstrom-Lynch (ybergstromlynch@ctstate.edu).

Library Orientation

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Get to Know Your Campus Library

Introduce your students to all the great resources and services the library provides in support of their success!

                                                                                                                           

Finding Sources

Distinguish Between Source Types

This tutorial helps students identify different source types and their appropriate uses in academic research.

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Refining Your Topic & Searching For Articles

Selecting a topic for a paper can be challenging, but this tutorial provides tips to help students succeed!        

Refining Your Topic & Searching for Articles © 11/03/2020 by Raymond F. Damato Library is licensed under CC BY 4.0                                                                     

 

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Introducing the Library Catalog

This tutorial helps students to devise effective strategies for searching the library catalog and obtaining materials from other libraries 

                                                                                                                           

Evaluating Sources

Evaluating Sources for Credibility

This tutorial helps students assess the credibility and relevance of sources based on a key set of criteria.

Evaluating Claims with Fact-Checking

This tutorial helps students learn and apply techniques to critically evaluate websites, news, and other online sources.  

Evaluating Claims with Fact-Checking © 09/04/2024 by Raymond F. Damato Library is licensed under CC BY 4.0                

Using Sources

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Photo by Mikhail Nilov

Using Sources in Your Writing: The BEAM Model

This tutorial helps students learn how to effectively integrate sources in their writing using Joseph Bizup’s BEAM model (Background, Exhibit, Argument, Method) to identify the purpose and function of each source within a research paper.

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Photo by Christina Morillo from Pexels

Using Books for Research

This tutorial helps students learn to locate books in the Library's collection and determine whether and how to effectively  integrate information from scholarly texts into their research and writing.

Creative Commons License
Using Books for Research by Debbie Herman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://manchestercc.libwizard.com/f/books.

Critical AI Literacy

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Introduction to Generative AI

By completing this tutorial students will learn key AI concepts and how generative AI works, the strengths and limitations of generative AI relative to library databases and resources, and how to identify AI tools relevant to academic research and understand their specific capabilities and uses.

Robotic arm holding a golden balance scale.

Using AI Ethically & Responsibly

By completing this tutorial students will learn to recognize the potential ethical dilemmas associated with using generative AI in academic research (e.g., academic integrity, data privacy, copyright, labor exploitation, etc.), develop strategies to address ethical dilemmas, and understand the impact of AI-informed decisions on personal academic growth, peers, and society.