Redesigning Comprehensive Library Tutorials

Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto (HTML)

An Appendix has been added to Chapter 6, but the text is otherwise intended to be the same as the published edition. A few minor differences may exist. Copyright: The author, Michael K. Buckland, assigned the copyright to this work to the American Library Association in 1992 for publication purposes. In 1997, when the American Library Association allowed this book to go out of print, the copyri...

Quantifying the effectiveness of interactive tutorials in medical library instruction.

The goal of this study was to determine whether a passive or an interactive tutorial design improves understanding of key concepts, as measured by pre- and post-test data. The authors also collected data regarding the participants' preference for taking an interactive versus a passive tutorial. The interactive tutorial group improved statistically significantly from pre-test to post-test for al...

Assess and Invest: Faculty Feedback on Library Tutorials

Kristina M. Appelt is Librarian/Assistant Professor at Prairie State College; e-mail: kappelt@prairiestate. edu. Kimberly Pendell is Assistant Information Services Librarian at University of Illinois at Chicago; e-mail: [email protected]. Communication and collaboration with faculty are increasingly important in the development of both curriculum-integrated and stand-alone “just in time” library...

Characteristics and content of medical library tutorials: a review.

Comprehensive transposon mutant library of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

We have developed technologies for creating saturating libraries of sequence-defined transposon insertion mutants in which each strain is maintained. Phenotypic analysis of such libraries should provide a virtually complete identification of nonessential genes required for any process for which a suitable screen can be devised. The approach was applied to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunisti...