Library Instruction Service

Faculty are encouraged to coordinate their assignments with the Shreveport Nursing Library staff so that students receive hands-on orientation to information literacy skills they will need to complete their assignments efficiently and effectively. To schedule a hand-on class on the 24 computers in the library, faculty should contact Dot Fernandez at (318) 677-3008 or 3007 or fernandezd@nsula.edu

To promote information literacy skills, many College of Nursing faculty require their students to complete the award-winning TILT tutorials (information literacy tutorials) at TILT which include these modules: Selecting Information Sources; Searching Library Databases and the Internet; and Evaluating and Citing Information Sources. The TILT tutorials include 3 quizzes that are automatically graded by the TILT software and can be emailed to instructors. TILT Online Research Tutorial.

Those students who have already completed the TILT modules are encouraged to complete 8 of the CORE information literacy tutorials at http://core.lib.purdue.edu/ which include the following key modules: Types of Info, Search Basics, Topic Exploration, Keyword Search, Types of Searches, Indexes, Internet, and Evaluating Sources, CORE quizzes are automatically graded by the CORE software and can be emailed to instructors.

To strengthen their skills and to orient themselves to the nursing and allied health databases, students are encouraged to printout the userguides and take the online tutorials that appear at http://www.nsula.edu/watson_library/online_tutorials.htm