Library exhibits are an excellent way to connect users to Library materials. With QR codes, smart phone users can connect to those materials instantly and at their point of need.

This poster illustrates our collaboration with our campus natural history museum to show how we used QR codes to provide a low-budget multimedia experience, while also highlighting library resources. We explain how to track usage of QR codes, and how to plan for smart phone compatibility with various digital file types and institutional authentication protocols.

This poster also suggests ways to provide access and information to users without smart phone access.

NetTrail is an online resource designed for University of California Santa Cruz students new to the research process, specifically lower-division undergraduates. It is a self-instructional, self-paced tutorial that covers the research process from initial topic selection to citation styles and the issue of plagiarism. Its content is organized into six modules that contain text, graphics, and interactive components. The modules are followed by a short self-administered quiz. It is not subject-specific and can be used in a variety of introductory courses.

Developed ahead of the curve, NetTrail has become an important and unique component of the Library’s instruction and outreach programs. Additional uses for the tutorial have been discovered that hadn’t been anticipated initially, such as incorporation of an information ethics module and its adoption as an in-house training resource for new library staff and student workers. It is now a featured resource of our research instruction program. (http://nettrail.ucsc.edu)

UCSC science librarians created a series of data management instructional modules aimed at upper division and graduate students. These were designed to be delivered in one-shot instruction sessions of twenty minutes each. The intent was to create one set of modules for researchers in any science department that would not require further disciplinary customization, and could also fit into an existing instructional program.

  We were able to launch a data literacy program on a shoestring, while training ourselves in this rapidly paced field. We integrated data management into our broader information literacy program, while also increasing awareness of our data management services offered by the Library.

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