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The Library Tutorial

The Library Tutorial. A Brief, Illustrative History. “You have to tell people about this!”. In the Beginning…. (Well, 1982…) At University of Victoria: Required Part of first-year English Catalogue, indexes, more Self-paced Organized into modules

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The Library Tutorial

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  1. The Library Tutorial A Brief, Illustrative History

  2. “You have to tell people about this!”

  3. In the Beginning… (Well, 1982…) At University of Victoria: Required Part of first-year English Catalogue, indexes, more Self-paced Organized into modules “How-to” (text, images) followed by activities Test administered by librarians Test requires use of tools, resources The Library Skills Workbook

  4. RIO (U of Arizona) Winner of the 1999 ACRL Innovation in Instruction Award, because of its: Ties to information literacy competencies Structure and design Effective use of graphics Strong evaluation component Development through usability testing Ease of use Clarity of language Adaptability to variety of instructional settings (course-related instruction, just-in-time research assistance) Marketing Take a tour: http://web.archive.org/web/20010607140306/dizzy.library.arizona.edu/rio/

  5. And then came… http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

  6. TILT: A Watershed Moment • Winner of the 2000 ACRL Innovation in Instruction Award, because it: “incorporates many levels of cognitive and affective objectives as well as critical thinking skills within the framework of a truly interactive and personalized learning environment.” • Focuses on fundamental concepts and transferable skills • Uses graphics, media, games and humour to reach its target audience (traditional-aged undergraduates)

  7. Penn State University http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/infocyle.htm

  8. PsycINFO (EbscoHost 2.0) – Using the Thesaurus http://blip.tv/file/1453578/

  9. Kuhlthau & Bloom • *Other dimensions to Bloom’s taxonomy: • Affective • Psychomotor • http://www.skagitwatershed.org/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html

  10. Online Library Assignment (OLA) • Rooted in UFV tradition • One piece of the equation – provide a foundation • Integrative (instruction embedded into tasks and assessment) • Concrete (try not to overwhelm); not just “how,” but “why” • Casual tone, humour • Authentic, real time • Statistics report: http://journals.ufv.ca/library/first_year/stats.php • The technical details: PHP, MySQL on Linux server running Apache web server

  11. What’s Next? • Rewrite the code, storing question data in a database • Add a web-based admin interface to allow creation of multiple versions with custom URLs • Add a check for local proxy authentication • Allow students to stop in the middle and restart where they left off • Allow students to send results to more than one instructor • Add item-level analysis to statistical report • Release it as open source

  12. Resources • ANTS (Animated Tutorial Sharing Project), http://ants.wetpaint.com/ • The Internet Wayback Machine, http://www.archive.org/ • LION (Library Information literacy Online Network) TV, http://liontv.blip.tv/ • PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online), http://www.ala.org/apps/primo/public/search.cfm References Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl, D.R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. New York: Longman. Kuhlthau, C. C. (2007). Reflections on the development of the model of the Information Search Process (ISP): Excerpts from the Lazerow Lecture, University of Kentucky, April 2, 2007. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 33(5), 32-37. Retrieved November 4, 2008, from http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-07/Kuhlthau.pdf

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