Skill Set: Basics Researching
Resource Type: Videos & Tutorials
ACRL Frame: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Video tutorial with directions for accessing eBooks from home
Resource Type: Handouts & Instructional Materials
Provides instructions for logging into Blackboard.
Skill Set: Basics Researching
Resource Type: Handouts & Instructional Materials
Directions for accessing the New York Times online. Must be a student, staff, or faculty member.
Skill Set: Researching
Resource Type: Marketing & Promotion Materials
Book a Librarian bookmark and trifold tabletop advertisement
Skill Set: Citing
Resource Type: Presentations
ACRL Frame: Information Has Value
This video presentation is appropriate for first year students to introduce them to citing, the MLA citation style, paraphrasing, and plagiarism.
Resource Type: Assessment Tools
ACRL Frame: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Activity worksheet that is completed within a class session after instruction and then collected and reviewed by the librarian.
Skill Set: Basics Researching
Resource Type: Videos & Tutorials
ACRL Frame: Searching as Strategic Exploration
Fun, informative video that shows advanced modifiers in Google searches with a reminder that internet searches are only the very beginning of research.
Resource Type: Activities & Lesson Plans
ACRL Frame: Authority is Constructed and Contextual Information Creation as a Process
Interactive lesson plan that reviews the definition of peer-reviewed, what constitutes an academic source, and how to evaluate for credibility.
Skill Set: Basics
Resource Type: Handouts & Instructional Materials
ACRL Frame: Research as Inquiry
Example of a notes worksheet highlighting the key points of your instruction that students fill in during your presentation.
Skill Set: Evaluating
Resource Type: Discussion Board Prompts
ACRL Frame: Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Example of a discussion board prompt, a low-stakes activity designed to get students thinking.
Skill Set: Basics Evaluating
Resource Type: Handouts & Instructional Materials
ACRL Frame: Information Creation as a Process Information Has Value
A visual timeline that helps students begin to understand the way information is created and how it evolves.
Skill Set: Basics
Resource Type: Software Use
ACRL Frame: Searching as Strategic Exploration
An online program patterned after Jeopardy that can be easily edited to create a fun competitive activity to assess comprehension after instruction.
Skill Set: Evaluating
Resource Type: Videos & Tutorials
ACRL Frame: Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
This video is a derivative of "Introducing SIFT" by Mike Caulfield from "Check Please! Starter Course”.
Resource Type: Marketing & Promotion Materials =/A
Flyer to be used for promoting the use of library's online chat for research help.
Skill Set: Basics
Resource Type: Assessment Tools
Minute-style paper survey designed to capture where students are after their first-year seminar library instruction session.
Resource Type: Handouts & Instructional Materials
ACRL Frame: Information has Value
An overview of how to cite sources using MLA 9e citation style.
Resource Type: Activities & Lesson Plans
ACRL Frame: Research as Inquiry Searching as Strategic Exploration
After instruction, provide practice time using worksheets. Using Libward or Google Docs, review submissions submitted to your email during class time so that you can clarify muddy points and highlight best practices.
Skill Set: Basics Citing Other
Resource Type: Videos & Tutorials
ACRL Frame: Information Has Value
Short video defining plagiarism, discussing consequences, and suggesting ways to avoid it
Skill Set: Researching Evaluating
Resource Type: Presentations
ACRL Frame: Research as Inquiry Scholarship as Conversation Searching as Strategic Exploration
This workshop addresses topics such as advanced searching, analyzing results, and more using Scopus.
Skill Set: Researching
Resource Type: Videos & Tutorials
ACRL Frame: Information Creation as a Process
This video tutorial introduces scholarly sources.
Skill Set: Researching
Resource Type: Videos & Tutorials
ACRL Frame: Scholarship as Conversation Searching as Strategic Exploration
Skill Set: Basics Researching
Resource Type: Videos & Tutorials
ACRL Frame: Research as Inquiry
What is a database, and why should you use one?