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Web tutorials: bibliographic instruction in a new medium.

Brenda Faye Green·Lin Wu·Richard Nollan
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Libraries are adding electronic resources of all kinds at an increasing pace to provide service to users outside the library and around the world. To meet this new demand, libraries are turning more and more to the use of online tutorials as a valuable means of providing instruction on how to access and use important resources. This article describes the Health Sciences Library and Biocommunications Center's work and experiences while creating tutorials, the ideas used, and ways the work was evaluated.

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Brenda Faye Green, Lin Wu, Richard Nollan. 2006. Web tutorials: bibliographic instruction in a new medium.. https://doi.org/10.1300/j115v25n01_08

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