Tutorials: Basic Library Skills

Librarians at academic institutions around the world have created hundreds of hours of content intended to help students develop and strengthen basic library and research skills. This toolkit is a carefully-curated collection of interactive tutorials and instructional videos that faculty may use as in-class activities or assign to be completed outside of class time. Likewise, students may consult these materials as reference sources to brush up basic skills or learn new approaches to finding and using information. Most of these materials were developed by librarians at institutions other than SUNY Cobleskill; while they sometimes reference the libraries at other institutions, the bulk of the content covered is applicable to students doing library research and academic writing at any institution.

The majority of links provided here connect users to content offered under Creative Commons licenses. Faculty members interested in embedding this content directly into a Moodle page (rather than merely linking to the original material) are encouraged to carefully follow Creative Commons guidelines for use and attribution.