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Mariner Tutorials


The University of Maine System strives to provide all with the information literacy skills needed to be successful in an academic environment. Below are two sets of tutorials that will help those who use them to achieve these skills. One is text based and the other is an interactive tool that allows the users to answer questions as they move through the tutorials.

Mariner Tutorials – is a text based set of tutorials that describes how to do research, search URSUS and the system indexes, use the internet, evaluate resources, cite sources, and how to work with intellectual and academic honesty.

TIP Tutorial (Tutorial for Info Power) – provides an interactive set of tutorials covering the investigation, searching, locating, evaluating, and utilizing of information. The TIP Tutorial includes a 25 question multiple-choice quiz.