dh299 - Tutorials
In thinking through the various skills needed to successfully navigate academic life in the library today I drew on my own experience and the experience of many student veterans I have connected with through my time in academia. This led me to thinking about the initial barriers to accessing materials in the digital library space and how older students may encounter difficulty in threshold skills necessary to make those tools accessible. As a graduate student worker in both the Young Research Library and the UCLA Veteran Resource Center I created a Library Guide (LibGuide) for student veterans in order to help them navigate the wide range of digital and physical materials available to them in the UCLA Library. However, this guide assumes some level of familiarity and proficiency in the underlying tool. In order to address this skill I developed a short tutorial poster to help these student veterans navigate the LibGuide more effectively. This tutorial is presented below.
A PDF version is available here.
*this project uses the Veterans 101 Library guide I produced as a graduate student research assistant at Young Research Library, and features tools, materials and other images that come directly from that guide, the UCLA library, and the Writing Instruction and Research Education pages.