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These interactive tutorials cover basic information literacy skills essential for a successful academic program. In addition there are a number of short tutorials explaining a very specific task. Most of them have a handout in pdf format outlining the key points of the tutorial.

This information literacy tutorial will take you from selecting a topic to documenting resources in a style assigned by your professor. It is designed specifically for students preparing persuasive essays or speeches though portions of the tutorial will be useful for any information need. The tutorial may be used in its entirety, or individual sections may be used.

The tutorial is divided into three sections: Getting Started How to Find Information Putting It Together Each section contains several lessons, usually several pages in length, that cover essential elements in the research process. These lessons will familiarize you with types of sources you can use to find information, explain how you can make the most effective use of these resources, discuss how to evaluate the information you find, and review the appropriate conventions for citing the research of others in your own work. The tutorial can be used in a variety of ways: *By the independent learner who wishes to enhance personal research skills; *By faculty in conjunction with academic courses; *By librarians and other instructors in workshops, lab settings, or library instruction sessions. Lessons can be followed in the order listed on the Home Page, or users can pick and choose among topics they want to learn about.

Explaining the students how the information is organised and stored for supporting their orientation in the information world, navigating the students to relevant information sources, training the students how to set queries for getting relevant results, familiarizing the students with library services for getting the documents, teaching the students to evaluate the information, alerting the students about the legal base for using the information, supporting experience and skills of the students in writing references.

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Lists of useful catalogue search strategies, journal databases, web directories and reference material.

Series of captivate tutorials on citation searching plus links to vendor help pages.

Mix of captivate and powerpoint tutorials also links to various help pages on database vendor websites.

A series of 9 modules following a logical process for carrying out library research.

The Search Guide is an interactive course on how to search, evaluate and work with information. It is especially useful when you are writing a paper.