Information Literacy and Library Tutorials

Information Literacy for Faculty


Library Tours

First Floor - audio (5.5 min) [mp3] wav]
Second Floor - audio (5 min) [mp3] [wav]
Third Floor - audio (3.5 min) [mp3] [wav]

First Floor - photo movie (3.5 min) [wmv]
Second Floor - photo movie (3.5 min) [wmv]
Third Floor - photo movie (2.5 min) [wmv]

First Floor - Floor Plan
Second Floor - Floor Plan
Third Floor - Floor Plan


How-to

How to Develop a Search Strategy for Electronic Databases
Step by step instructions for creating search strings.

How to Find Full-text Journal Articles (13 min) [mp4] [pdf]
Finding full-text articles when you have a known citation and when you need to search for articles on a topic.

How to Navigate to and Search the ERIC Database
Part 1 - Navigating to ERIC (2 min) [mp4]
Part 2 - Searching ERIC (10 min) [mp4]
Primary audience is students in ELED 220, Intro to Elementary Education, but will be useful to anyone needing to learn to search the ERIC database.

How to Read Library of Congress (LC) Call Numbers
Test Yourself:
    Easy
    Challenging


Other Tutorials

SearchPath
An excellent tutorial that is useful to all students. Caveat: A few modules or sections of modules are specific to locations at the Western Michigan Univeristy library.

ANTS: Animated Tutorial Sharing (on Screencast.com)

PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online- Search the Database

Last Modified: March 31, 2010