Library Teaching Toolkit
This library teaching toolkit page is designed to help students build research skills using the library. You can integrate research skills into your courses by embedding these resources into your assignments. Please reach out to the library if you have questions about how to best leverage these information literacy tutorials in your assignment design.
Research Notebook
Plan your research strategy! Use the Research Notebook to keep a notebook of your research questions and search strategies. You can make a copy of this for yourself.
Featured Tutorials: Foundations of Research
Developing a Research Question
Develop effective research questions by narrowing or broadening your scope, identifying key concepts, and finding where to search for more information.
Searching Strategy
Discover tips and tricks for searching library resources to find relevant information.
Using Your Resources
Explore the different types of collections at Gleeson Library, understand primary and secondary sources, and discover how these sources vary across academic disciplines.
Ethical Use of Information
Learn how to create citations with purpose, access resources to help manage them, and uphold USF values of academic integrity.
You can find more of our tutorials on the Gleeson Library YouTube Channel.
All tutorials through Gleeson Library are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
You can embed Gleeson Library video tutorials directly into your Canvas course using the Rich Content Editor. This feature is available in Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, and Quizzes.
- On the Gleeson Library YouTube Channel, find the video you would like to embed.
- Select Share, then Embed.
- From the box that appears, Copy the HTML code.
- Select Share, then Embed.
- On your Canvas course, open the Rich Content Editor.
- Select Insert from the menubar, then Embed.
- Paste the code in the Embed Code field, then select Submit.
- Select Insert from the menubar, then Embed.