The following short videos and tutorials will give you a brief explanation of basic library research skills. Most will take less than five minutes of your time. The videos have audio.
This tutorial shows you how to obtain books, journal articles and other resources that the University Libraries do not have in our collections through our Interlibrary Loan service.
This introduction to Paperpile is by Kate Lechtenberg, a doctoral student at the University of Iowa and a librarian. It is over 10 minutes long but really does a nice job of showing you the main features of Paperpile. Paperpile is a great bibliographic reference manager for Google Docs.