Teaching Google Scholar: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Practical guides for librarians

by Paige Alfonzo

Teaching Google Scholar in your library instructional sessions can increase students’ information and digital literacy skills. Students’ familiarity with Google Scholar’s interface works to the instructor’s advantage and allows more time to address students’ information needs and teach foundational information literacy skills and less time teaching a new database with a less-intuitive database interface.

Teaching Google Scholar: A Practical Guide for Librarians will illustrate instructional methods and incorporate step-by-step guides and examples for teaching Google Scholar. It begins with providing you with essential background:


After reading it, you will be ready to teach students critical skills including how to:

Google Scholar is a powerful research tool and will only become more popular in the coming years. Learning how to properly teach students how to utilize this search engine in their research will greatly benefit them in their college career and help promote life-long learning. Google Scholar instruction is a must in today’s modern information literacy classroom.

188 pages, Paperback

Published July 25, 2016

Reviews

[Siobhan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reviewed this one for JERL (forthcoming). An excellent guide to Google Scholar, not just for those of us who teach information literacy instruction, but also for anyone interested in becoming an advanced user of Google Scholar.