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Teaching Guide: Beyond the Search Bar Infographic (English)

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Sol Cátala-Valentín

In your teaching practice, have you noticed that some students perceive library resources as interchangeable web pages, without recognizing their distinct purposes? This guide invites librarians to present library tools and services as an interconnected ecosystem rather than isolated websites. To support that conversation, it accompanies the infographic Beyond the Search Bar: The TV Guide to Library Research, which maps these resources onto the familiar world of smart TVs

What's Included:
  1. Background and rationale for presenting library resources as an ecosystem through smart TV analogies, grounded in the ACRL Framework's Searching as Strategic Exploration frame.
  2. Suggested language and teaching tips for introducing six library resources, each paired with a smart TV analogy.
  3. Theoretical framework drawing on the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) 3.0.
  4. Guidance for adapting the infographic to your audience and institution (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) [Tutorial coming soon!] 
Access the Guide:
Built Around the following infographic:

Resource Statistics

Resource Type(s)
Professional Development Material
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed
Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Searching as Strategic Exploration
Discipline(s)
Library and Information Science
Multidisciplinary
Not Discipline Specific
Type of Institution
Community or Junior College
College
University
Other
Scope
Classroom-level
College-level
Professional development
License Assigned
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License CC-BY-NC-ND
Links
Teaching Guide: "Beyond the Search Bar" Infographic
https://solthelibrarian.my.canva.site/teaching-guide-beyond-the-search-bar
Topics
active learning
databases
digital literacy
early research
first-year students
instructional design
learning outcomes
library orientation
search strategies