Library Online Tutorials
The following are interactive asynchronous tutorials created by Hope librarians, designed to teach students a variety of information literacy skills.
Tutorials are typically a mixture of short videos, texts, practice activities and questions involving library and other online tools and resources. At the end of each tutorial, students will have a place to enter their contact information along with an instructor’s in order to submit their answers. Please contact a librarian if you are interested in batch downloads of student submissions.
First Year Seminar Tutorials
Information Literacy Skills and Concepts
- Searching Like a Pro
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                           Skills and habits for transforming a research topic into searches. 
- Source Wars: Scholarly vs Popular
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                           Tools for recognizing the differences between popular-style publications and peer reviewed journal articles. 
- Finding Resources in the Van Wylen Stacks
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                           Summary of the steps for locating a print book at Van Wylen. 
- Communicate with Confidence: A Plagiarism Primer
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                           An introduction to plagiarism and its impact on academic integrity. 
- Skeptical Researching: Skills and Habits for Checking Online Claims
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                           Strategies for quickly fact-checking online news stories. ()