Molstead Library Tutorials

Each tutorial listed below is a walk-through explanation of how to use the library web site, catalog, and databases.  Click on one of the options below to start a tutorial. After you finish, you may complete the quizzes (in WebCT) to see what you've learned.

  •  Catalog Tutorial - Learn how to search for books and recordings at NIC, University of Idaho, and Lewis-Clark State College libraries. Learn how to manage your search results and make requests for items from other libraries.

  •  Database Tutorial - Learn how to use databases to search for newspaper, magazine, and academic/professional journals.

  •  Web Site Walk-through - Become familiar with the useful resources on the library's web site.

  •   (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial) - The TILT tutorial guides you through the process of selecting the appropriate information resources for the types of information you might be looking for.  TILT focuses on the Internet as a research tool, but also discusses printed material, periodical databases, and other forms of electronic information.  TILT provides it's own quizzes at the end of each of it's modules and allows quiz results to be sent to a specified email (i.e. an instructor's email).