Library Tutorials

These online tutorials have been developed to help you become familiar with libraries in general and the UTEP Library specifically. 

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• Getting Ready to use the Library  (2:52) 
   

Searching the Library Catalog

• Encore  (2:18)  
  
  
• Classic Catalog  (2:30)  
  
  
• Starting Your Research  (1:42)   
   

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Compiling Your Sources

• Compiling Your Sources: Books  (3:07)   
  
  
• Compiling your Sources: E-Books  (2:03)  
  
  
• Compiling your Sources: Government Documents  (2:28)  

Understanding Call Numbers

• The Library of Congress Classification System   (3:28)  

• SuDoc Call Numbers  (4:22)  
  

• The Dewey Decimal Classification System  (5:09)  

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Searching for Journals and Magazines

• Introduction to Online Databases  (2:00)  

• Search Strategies for  Finding Articles  (3:50)  

• Finding Full-Text Articles  (2:46)  

Searching for Newspapers

• Current Newspapers  (6:18) 
  
  
• Historical Newspapers  (6:17) 
  

Searching for Videos  (4:27) 

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• The Different Types of Articles (Magazines, Journals and Newspapers)  (4:40)  

• Scholarly Articles  (3:09)
  

• Evaluating Web Resources  (7:39)  

• Bibliographic Citations  (5:08)  

• Intellectual Property  (3:29)  

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• How to Create or Recover Your Library PIN  (3:15)
  

• How to Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL)  (3:04)
  

• How to Find a Specific Article  (2:52)

• YouTube and Copyright  (1:21)