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Distance & Online Learning Guide: Home

Helpful resources from the library for students taking an online course or in online programs

Welcome!

This guide has a few helpful resources and videos to help you as an online or distance learning student.  If you have any questions, please use the Ask Us chat box (always located on the left side of this guide!) or contact me directly.  Use the tabs to find:

 

  • Help with Research: This tab includes our Path Research Tutorial to use if you are need some help getting started with research;  guides on citation and the citation management tool Zotero; helpful tutorials/guide for using Google Scholar to effectively find what you need; other library's helpful tutorials for doing research; and other vendor/database specific tutorials.
  • Library Catalog:  This tab includes tutorials about how to search our catalog, a catalog search box, and other useful tutorials about specifically finding eBooks, renewing items and using your library account.
  • Helpful Services and Tools for Online Learning:  This tab contains guides to assist you in locating online materials beyond books and journals.  It also tells you about other useful services the library offers that will help you as a distance student, like borrowing books from other UNC libraries and getting books mailed to you.
  • Meet Your Librarians:  Get to know the many friendly librarians at UNCG.  Every department has a library liaison to help with research and consultations. Go to this page to learn how to contact your program's liaison.

Your Online Library Orientation Video

Online Learning Librarian

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Sam Harlow
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