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Introduction
Using a database to find information, instead of the ubiquitous Google, can be a hard concept for students to understand. However, librarians can help students by providing access to online help in the form of video tutorials. Often the times that students need the most help is at 2:00 am the day the paper is due, a time when most librarians are sleeping. This paper will describe the steps necessary to identify need and produce quality video tutorials that students can use at their convenience. For this project the sociology librarian contacted an instructor in the Sociology Department at WSU who teaches a class of approximately 250 students every semester. All students in this particular class are given the assignment of finding three peer-reviewed articles about a given sociology topic that is of interest to them and turning in a summary of those articles.