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Teaching at NYU Libraries

Orientation to teaching at NYU Libraries and resources available for teaching support.

Topic & Research Question

Finding Sources

  • Using Research Guides -- Two videos that explain the purpose of Research Guides, one from an Art History perspective and the other from a Business perspective.
  • Finding Books -- includes:
    • Our Updated Search System: Find Books, Articles, & More with One Search (video, 4:14)
    • The 5 Steps to Getting a Physical Book (video, 4:27)
    • Navigating the Stacks to Pull a Book from the Shelf (video, 4:53)
  • Finding Articles -- includes the following:
    • What are Databases and Why Use Them? What are Databases and Why Use Them?
    • Three Ways to Find Articles -- Primo, individual databases, and Google Scholar (text)
    • What are Databases and Why Use Them? (video, 1:41)
    • Multidisciplinary Databases (video, 2:53)
    • Subject-Specific Databases (video, 3:32)
    • Tips for Searching Within Databases (infographic covering Boolean, quotation marks for phrases, and truncation)

Learning Objects from Other Libraries

University of Arizona Libraries information literacy tutorials, covering:

  • Creating a search strategy
  • Anatomy of a scholarly article
  • Popular vs. Scholarly Articles
  • Giving credit to the ideas of others
  • and more...

North Carolina State University Libraries videos, covering:

  • How to read a scholarly article
  • Boolean operators for searching
  • What is a primary source
  • Evaluating sources for credibility
  • and more...