Barkley, M. (2018). The Library in the Laboratory: Implementing an Online Library Tutorial in a Freshman Biology Lab. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. DOI:10.5062/F45B00QH
This online library tutorial was developed (with reference to the work of two Ï㽶ÊÓƵ librarians) in the context of an introductory course covering the biological concepts surrounding evolution, diversity, and ecology required for all Biology undergraduate majors. The author is a Life and Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Dayton, Ohio, USA. The tutorial puts into practice many recommended features for keeping students engaged: information broken into segments, interactive questions, and flexibility in content access. Combining topics of database access and use, academic honesty, and proper citation techniques, it fills a discipline specific research need not generally met in the first year curriculum in the USA. By partnering with the Scientific Writing PreLab the tutorial has flexibility to connect articles with projects students will work on later in the semester. This example provides a case study of library-faculty partnership in creating and implementing resources.