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Library Instruction
Learn about our approach to Information Literacy.
Our approach to information literacy allows us to teach students the "why" instead of only the "how," and it helps them think of themselves as creators and participants in scholarly communications. The framework also addresses competencies that students need to develop in order to become skillful researchers.
Tutorials & assignments for your students
For new students: Tutorials: Information Literacy
Supplement these tutorials with Assignments you can use in your classroom (PDFs).
More tutorials and instruction
Learn to search specific databases and tools: Step-by-step tutorials
Help your students use primary sources: Class instruction: Special Collections
Collaborate with us on your instruction needs
Find the librarian for your college or department.
We can work with you to:
- Develop research assignments, class activities, and learning objects
- Create assessments for student learning
- Customize the library tools available from your D2L course site
- Create course guides to help students understand the research process and complete assignments
Find & use course materials
Read tips for finding course materials, accessing content online, linking to library resources, shortening URLs, and customizing D2L's Library Tools.
Books, ebooks, book chapters, & articles
- Check for ebook availability
Before you submit your required textbooks through the UA BookStores’ textbook adoption process, check with us to see if they’re freely available to students as ebooks. We buy unlimited-user ebook licenses for required course textbooks whenever possible. - Learn more about using ebooks in courses
Our Ebooks FAQ answers questions like How can students in courses work together to minimize ebook turnaways? and other questions. - Required readings shelf
For single copies of print titles that are unavailable through the typical channels. - Document delivery
We offer electronic delivery of articles & book chapters from the library's collection. - Request a purchase
Single copies for research or course preparation. - Free to use course materials
- Find open educational resources
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and research resources in the public domain or released with an open license.
Multimedia
Images - Best practices for use
Showing films in UA classes
- See About streaming video for answers to your questions.
- Request streaming video
Showing films on campus (outside of the classroom)
Want to show short clips instead of entire films?
- See our FAQ: How do I show video clips in my class?
Copyright & fair use
- Copyright at a glance
- Copyright guidelines for instructors
- Copyright Implications: Shifting Your Course Online
Tutorial: Fair use & copyright in instruction
Use our spaces
Would you like to reserve a room at the library?
Request a meeting or instruction room
Do you need a place to record course lectures?
Use our Learning Studio to record course lectures.
Room B254, Catalyst Studios, Main Library.
Using the Learning Studio for Lecture Capture (tutorial)
Using this room instead of your own office or home has some advantages.
- The noise-cancelling microphone has excellent sound quality. You can move around in the room and the quality will not change.
- The ceiling-mounted camera has multiple viewing angles and you can control where the camera points.
- You can zoom the camera into various locations of the room, such as a whiteboard.
- You can use the attached document camera to display a physical object, a rare book, or just about anything – to make it show up in your video.
Reserve the Learning Studio: Request a meeting or instruction room