# Library (LIB) courses

Gavilan College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 9 courses

Source: https://gavilan.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/4259/4260/4308

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### LIB 3 — Research Skills

- **Units:** 2
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass

Research and evaluation skills using the Internet and other electronic resources, as well as traditional printed materials. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass.

### LIB 140 — Online Health Research

- **Units:** 2
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/gavilan-college/schedule/spring-2027/lib.md)
- Grading: Standard Letter Grade

A beginning course on how to find reliable and current health-related information, using the Internet and other electronic resources. This course is also listed as AH 140.

### LIB 732 — Introduction to Online Gavilan

- **Units:** 0
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Non Credit

Introduction to the online classes and student services at Gavilan College. This course will show students how to log into their online courses, find lectures, assignments and exams, take part in online class discussions, submit attachments, and view their grades. The course will also cover all the online student services available to the distant student, including counseling, library resources, records and grades, financial aid, tutoring and technical support.

### LIB 735 — Library Research - Research Basics

- **Units:** 0
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Non Credit

Students jump-start their research skills with this introductory course and learn strategic searching strategies to support their courses with the library's extensive array of materials, including e-books, print materials, streaming video, research guides, and specialized databases. Students save time, develop information literacy, and locate and use quality information to deepen and extend their learning.

### LIB 736 — Library Research: Develop a Topic

- **Units:** 0
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Non Credit

Designed for entry-level students, this introductory course provides bite-sized exercises using a variety of library sources to show effective methods for developing quality research papers. These include brainstorming a topic, concept mapping, evaluating the validity of a topic for a paper, finding supporting evidence for a thesis statement, making effective use of evidence from online and print sources and established citation style rules regarding use published materials.

### LIB 737 — Library Research: Avoid Plagiarism

- **Units:** 0
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Non Credit

Designed for entry-level student research, this short course reviews different types of plagiarism, plagiarism during the research process, and strategies for avoiding plagiarism, including citing sources.

### LIB 740 — Information Competency for Nursing Assistants

- **Units:** 0
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Non Credit

Online information competency modules that step through the process of finding and evaluating online health resources. These tutorials are paced with AH 280 (Fundamentals of Nursing - Convalescent) to support discipline and content-specific information literacy skills.

### LIB 741 — Information Competency for the Life Cycle

- **Units:** 0
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Non Credit

Online information competency modules that step through the process of finding and evaluating online health resources. These tutorials are paced with AH3 (The Person in the Life Cycle).

### LIB 742 — Information Competency for Nutrition

- **Units:** 0
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading: Non Credit

Online information competency modules that step through the process of finding and evaluating online health resources. These tutorials are paced with AH11 (Nutrition).