Instructional support
Materials to incorporate in your teaching
Library Research Skills Tutorial
The Library Research Skills Tutorial has modules on choosing a research topic, searching for information, finding books and articles, reading and note taking, and citing. Choose the modules or activities that you would like to integrate into your courses or work with your subject librarian to identify the most relevant sections.
How-to videos
The Library has prepared videos that demonstrate search tools and introduce key concepts for students who are looking for information sources. Recommended videos on the Library’s YouTube channel include:
Quick Things for Digital Knowledge
Quick Things for Digital Knowledge is a learning resource from the Library about emerging topics in our current data-rich and technology-driven world. It aims to promote critical thinking about complex topics that affect everyone, such as generative AI (like ChatGPT), Web 3.0 and the metaverse, data visualization, and security and privacy.
As an instructor, you can incorporate the Quick Things as well as the suggested readings, videos, and activities in your course as pre-work or in the classroom to spark students’ learning about these topics. More ideas are on the "how to use" page for teachers.
Subject and course guides
There is a subject guide for each field of study at Concordia and many course-specific guides as well. Links to these guides can also be found in the Library Resources Moodle Block. The subject and course guides introduce key information resources in each discipline.
Library how-to guides
Top library how-to guides include:
- How to write a research paper
- How to write a literature review
- How to write an annotated bibliography
See all general guides for finding, evaluating, writing and using.
Citation guides
The Library has guides for all popular citation styles, including APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago, SBL and IEEE. See all citation guides.
