Instructional Videos

film

Video is everywhere from YouTube to iPods...

St. Catherine University Libraries are capitalizing on this trend by creating instructional videos for students, faculty and staff.

  • The Library: Uncatalogued
  • Coming in 2010: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Library* But Were Afraid to Ask (overview video for adjunct faculty)

The Library: Uncatalogued

The Library: Uncatalogued is an information literacy video for undergraduate students in The Reflective Woman course (CORE100) at St. Catherine University.

See: The Library: Uncatalogued featured on Library Journal

View the Film: The Library: Uncatalogued

Clips Online

The Trailer: http://library.stkate.edu/trw/LibUnVideo.html

The Trailer on YouTube: Search for “library uncatalogued” or go directly to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOk5gws1t68

Clip: Scholarly vs. Popular
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Clip: Why do we seek information?
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Clip: Evaluating Web Sources with the Library Fairy
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Clip: Avoiding Plagiarism
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Clip: Tour the St. Paul Library
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Check out the DVD

The Library: Uncatalogued
Z733.S1475 L538 2007 (24-hr Reserves)
The complete DVD is available to check out or for viewing in the Library. Check CLICnet for more information.

Additional Resources

Original soundtrack: Chuck Duncan, Duncan Creative,
duncancreative@gmail.com / 612-605-9156

Editing software: FinalCut Express HD from Apple

Content based on: ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards

Original script by: Anika Fajardo, alfajardo@stkate.edu

The Next One: Keep up to date on the next project by viewing the blog:
The Library Meets Hollywood (http://libraryhollywood.blogspot.com/)

Selected References

Cox, C. N., et. al. (2002, March). The case of the missing students, and how we reached them with streaming media [distance students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute]. Computers in Libraries 22(3). 40-5.

Doshi, A. (2006, May). How gaming could improve information literacy. Computers in Libraries, 26 (5). 14.

Gulati, A. (2001). “Using video for library promotion.” In Library User Education and the New Millennium . Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press. 87-90.

Long, S. A. (2005). Digital natives: If you aren't one, get to know one. New Library World, 106 (3/4). 187.

Morris, M. & Cole, V. (2002). Lights camera action: Tips for effective streaming library instruction video. Cornell University Libraries. http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/video.html

Stey, J. & Walton, L. (1996). Producing training videos for end-user instruction. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 15 (1). 89-95.

Zhang, L. (2006). Effectively incorporating instructional media into web-based information literacy. The Electronic Library, 24(3). 294.