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Library Research Tutorial

About this tutorial

The original version of this tutorial was designed specifically for the freshman writing course (WRTG 1150) in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A public version of that tutorial was established in order to assist all patrons at UCB libraries.

The tutorial’s goal is to teach the concepts of scholarly vs. popular sources, identifying keywords, searching a library catalog and an article database, evaluating sources, and using information legally and ethically. These goals are developed from the Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy standards.

Content of this tutorial was designed by Jennifer Knievel and Rebecca Imamoto, with input from Keith Gresham, all of whom are currently members of the Reference and Instructional Services Department in the University of Colorado library. Earlier iterations of this information literacy instruction were developed with assistance from Lori Arp, Joseph Yue, and Grace Xu. Programming and technical aspects of the tutorial were created entirely by Holley Long, who is a member of the library Systems Department. The tutorial was created using ColdFusion programming and a MySQL database.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Knievel.