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Virtual Orientation to the Library

Below you will find links to interactive modules or tutorials which will give you an orientation to important parts of the library on your campus.

Those in the first group give you a photo tour of the physical library on your campus, with Susan Clark, the director, as your tour guide. This will help you understand how your library is organized and the basic services we offer. (You will need a sound card installed and speakers or headphones to listen to these tours.)

The second tutorial, "Getting acquainted with our Virtual Library," is an introduction to the "Virtual Library"--our online resource collections and other important tools for your research projects. (The short videos included load fastest in Windows Media Player, but there are alternate links for Mac users for FLASH files.)

The third is a collection of tutorials teaching information literacy skills as described below.

Some portions include FLASH streaming video format, so be sure your home browser is equipped with a FLASH viewer -- visit the following site to download the free Macromedia Flash Player: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/.

The interactivity of these tutorials requires ActiveX Controls to be allowed in your browser--and they seem to work with the least interference in Firefox. Ask library staff if you have any questions.

If your instructor assigns the photo tour, please bring his or her email address with you so that the quiz form can be forwarded.

Mini-tours available separately:

• The EXTENT of the Virtual Library --Just how big IS the Virtual Library?

• What are library article DATABASES? (and why they are not "Internet sources")

• Kinds of HELP available for searching Virtual Library databases