As part of our mission to teach students how to find the information they need, the library has a program of instruction that features a series of self-paced workbooks which teach practical library research skills. The introductory workbook, Basic Library Materials , introduces students to the different types of resources available in a library and how to efficiently find information in books. Searching for Books teaches students how to find books in the library's collection through the Hawaii Voyager online catalog system. Searching for Periodicals gives students hands-on practice in finding the current information they need in magazines, journals, and newspapers, and introduces them to wealth of electronic indexes and information resources available today.
Workbooks are available for in-library use near the reference desk .
Each workbook has a gradable quiz, which must be taken in the library, and scores are reported to the student's instructor. Most instructors accept scores from quizzes taken in previous semesters, and students can have their scores sent to their current instructors by filling out a form at the reference desk. Scores from old Library Unit tests taken before the Spring 1997 semester will no longer be forwarded, because the new workbooks are just too different. Even if you are not assigned to do these Workbooks for a class, you may use them to teach yourself these skills.