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Customized Library Instruction

For Your Online & Off-Campus Courses

Providing library instruction is one of our main priorities at Odum Library and your librarians are dedicated to teaching the information literacy skills your students need to excel in your courses. We have a wide range of services available to enhance your courses with effective library instruction tools:

Face-to-Face instruction is available: many of our librarians are available to travel to off-campus locations. Schedule a library instruction course today at http://www.valdosta.edu/library/services/instruct.shtml

Embedded Librarians: invite a librarian into your WebCT course to facilitate a discussion board about research and library services. Contact the Reference Department at 229.333.7149 and ask to speak to the Library Instruction or Outreach Services Librarian for more details

Customized Library Instruction: Choose from a wide variety of Research Help Tools, Subject Guides, and Tutorials to create a customized library instructions section in your WebCT course, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/howto.shtml

Sample Library Instruction Section for Your Online Course

Welcome to Odum Library

Library Services for Distance Education, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/services/distanceeducation.shtml
Top Ten Services for Students at Odum Library, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/toptenstudent.shtml

Getting Started with Your Research

Understanding Boolean, Truncation, & Wildcard, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/booleans.shtml
Constructing a Search Strategy, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/strategy.shtml

How to Find Books using the GIL Catalog

GIL Catalog Tutorial (print & video available), http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/gil.shtml
GIL Express Request (borrow a book from any USG Library), http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/gilexpress.shtml

How to Find Journal Articles

GALILEO tour (print & video available), http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/galileotour.shtml
Anywhere Access (off-campus access to Odum’s online databases), http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/anygalileo.shtml
Academic Search Complete (demonstration on searching for journal articles in a database), http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/aspsearch.shtml
Getting Electronic Journal Articles Full-text (demonstration on finding full text journal articles from a citation, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/getejournals.shtml

Citation Help

APA, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/apaexamples.shtml
MLA, http://www.valdosta.edu/library/learn/mlaguide.shtml
Plagiarism, Indiana University Writing Tutorial Services, http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

Reference

Customized Library Instruction for Your Online & Off-Campus Courses was inspired by a book chapter written by Lisa T. Nickel.

Nickel, L. T. (2007). Collaborating with faculty and instructional technology staff. In S. J. Clayton (Ed.),

Going the distance: Library instruction for remote learners (pp. 153-158). New York:

Neal-Schuman Publishers.

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