Frequently Asked Questions for Users of the ALPS Instructional Resources for Librarians Repository

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What is this thing?

This is a repository of learning objects created by academic librarians. It's a place where librarians can store their learning objects and other librarians can locate and use them.

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What is a learning object?

Ah, a question with many different answers. For the purposes of our repository, we're considering a learning object to be anything which a librarian has created to assist in her or his instructional duties. Learning objects might include: a database guide; a lesson plan for a workshop; any handouts distributed to students in that workshop; a print or online guide on citing, plagiarism, or research techniques; an animated tutorial on a database; a WebCT tutorial on research skills; ... and so on. Pretty well any kind of instructional material a librarian creates is fair game for this repository.

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Can I use objects found here?

Of course! There are some restrictions based on the license type (Creative Commons or BC Creative Commons), but basically we'd be happy if people can find and make use of the objects shared here.

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Are there other repositories of learning objects for librarians like this one?

Yes, ANTS and CORIL are two notable Canadian examples. We're working on ways of allowing users to cross-search all of these repositories at once.

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I'd like to share some of the material I've created for my classes. Can I do it?

Of course! See the information on the homepage about contributing to the collection.

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