Creating library tutorials to provide flexibility and customized learning in asynchronous settings

Abstract

Online tutorials that provide flexible and up-to-date information on library resources and research concepts are a vital service in academic libraries. At the University of North Carolina Greensboro, librarians created a platform providing multiple options for creation and delivery of virtual and interactive tutorials. At this University, the tutorials are useful to train patrons on a variety of research concepts. When the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact courses, this already established workflow and set of library research modules was able to assist librarians with the increasing demand for asynchronous online information literacy instruction.

Keywords:

• Information literacy
• library tutorials
• online tutorials
• online learning
• library instruction

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Rachel Olsen

Rachel Olsen is the First-Year Communication and Social Sciences at UNCG. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from UNCG in 2014 and a Master of Science in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill in 2016.

Samantha Harlow

Samantha Harlow is the Online Learning Librarian at UNCG, as well as a liaison to Community and Therapeutic Recreation, Kinesiology, and Public Health Education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from New York University (NYU) and her Master of Science in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill in 2011.