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Research Roadmap is an interactive online tutorial for students wanting an introduction to research skills. The tutorial covers the basics, including how to select a topic and develop research questions, select, search for, find, and evaluate information sources. It also covers the ethics of information use, including copyright and fair use, how to avoid plagiarism, and how to cite sources correctly.

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New Materials

Introduction to College Research
This book acknowledges the changing information landscape, covering key concepts in information literacy to support a...
ACRL | Project Outcome
Project Outcome is a FREE online toolkit designed to help libraries understand and share the impact of essential library...
A Yoga Adventure at the Ocean
Wake up and get ready to go play in the ocean waves! This interactive childrens story invites readers to be active with...
Bicycle commuting
This is a guide designed by a biking librarian to help librarians who want to advocate for safer streets for all kinds...
Goodreads as an Organizing System-Powerpoint
This Powerpoint presentation can be shown for the purpose of two learning objectives; 1. Develop a custom list in the...
Goodreads as an Organizing System-Lesson Plan
This lesson plan articulates the learning objectives and respective roles associated with a 10 minute presentation of...
Spotify Lesson Plan Draft
Spotify is an organizing system that collects music and podcasts for users to access all around the world. This systems...
Key Retrieval Features of The StoryGraph
These virtual lesson materials outline the key retrieval functions of The StoryGraph, an online organizing system that...
D&D Beyond Discussion Questions
For use in D&D Beyond Instructional Session: Through the use of slideshows, audio presentation, and a live demonstration...
D&D Beyond Presentation Script 03
For use in D&D Beyond Instructional Session: Through the use of slideshows, audio presentation, and a live demonstration...
D&D Beyond Presentation Script 02
For use in D&D Beyond Instructional Session: Through the use of slideshows, audio presentation, and a live demonstration...
D&D Beyond Presentation Script 01
For use in D&D Beyond Instructional Session: Through the use of slideshows, audio presentation, and a live demonstration...
D&D Beyond Walkthrough
For use in D&D Beyond Instructional Session: Through the use of slideshows, audio presentation, and a live demonstration...
The Storygraph: The Newest Indexing System for Avid Readers
The Storygraph is the newest way for avid readers to stay motivated and share their reading list in an online environment...
D&D Beyond Open and Close
For use in D&D Beyond Instructional Session: Through the use of slideshows, audio presentation, and a live demonstration...
The Neverending Story of Democratic Indexing: StoryGraph's cycle of organization and retrieval
StoryGraph is an online organizing system that organizes and retrieves book titles for users by using democratic...
D&D Beyond Lesson Plan and Outline
For use in D&D Beyond Instructional Session: Through the use of slideshows, audio presentation, and a live demonstration...
The StoryGraph: Explaining the Newest Social Media Website for Books
This lesson plan details the basic features and concepts of The StoryGraph, a website designed to catalogue and track...
DNDBeyond As An Organizing System
Welcome to the world of high adventure and organizing systems! D&DBeyond as an Organizing System is a lesson plan...
Organizing System for Sanborn Maps at Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) has an extensive collection of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and many of them are...
Spotify as an Organizing System Instructional Session
Spotify is an organizing system that collects music and podcasts for users to access. There are many elements which...
Goodreads as an Organizing System
This lesson focuses on Goodreads, a website that helps users find books, authors, curate lists and share findings. The...
Learning an Organizing System: Library of Congress Sanborn Maps Collection
The Sanborn Maps Collection (https://www.loc.gov/collections/sanborn-maps) includes over 35,000 digitized fire insurance...
Goodreads PowerPoint with speaker's notes
This PowerPoint presentation accompanies the Goodreads lesson plan. In the notes portion of the PowerPoint are the...

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