Do you tell your students to find and use peer reviewed, or refereed articles in their work for your class? Think they know what that means? If you're not sure that they know, link to th...

An old school Sesame Street video in the "Who are the people in your neighborhood?" series of songs. In this case, a librarian (and a plumber, who he helps)!

This online game covers skills in using AND, choosing terms to search, thinking of synonyms, and evaluating for relevance.

Hot Potatoes is software that can be used to create a variety of learning activities, including multiple choice/select quizzes, matching, jumble, crosswords, and fill in the blank. Th...

Watch Colin Farrell and Elmo talk about investigating. This can lead to a discussion about search skills.

Grover visits the library and is shushed regularly by the librarian while telling people what a library has to offer. Serves as a talking point for what a library offers, how they've change...

A short video explaining general policies and procedures for using Special Collections at the Ohio State Univeristy Libraries

Copyright is a legal issue and may seem daunting at first. View this tutorial to get a better sense of the basics of copyright.

How much information from a source can you use? In what ways can you use it? View this tutorial to find out!

In this simple adventure game, the user must go through the steps of finding a cure after being bitten. Wrong steps can result in time lost and eventual waking up zombiefied. This...

This game gives search topics and has 5 rounds of the player picking the major concept and then 5 rounds of thinking of alternate terms.

This video has Cookie Monster visiting a library. He seems to misunderstand the purpose of the library and keeps asking for cookies. This video can start a discussion about what a librar...

This Dilbert strip shows how data/research can back up one's views/claims...but unless shared/cited, it doesn't do much good. Could lead to a discussion on making data openly available, wh...

In this comic, an coworker is making an outrageous claim and is implying he's going to enter the claim into a Wikipedia article. Provides a discussion point for reliability, evaluating re...

Dilbert's boss decides to do some research...but just finding the search tool takes longer than expected. A humorous way to illustrate that research takes time - sometimes more than expected!