Piloting a National Online Tutorial in Slavic Information Literacy: The LOTSE-Slavic Studies Project at Bochum University Library, Germany.

The article describes the Library Online Tour and Self-Paced Education (LOTSE) project for Slavic Studies (LOTSE-Slavistik) at the University Library, Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany. LOTSE-Slavistik is an open-access online tutorial that provides German-speaking students and researchers an introduction to the most important resources in Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures. The tutorial was developed at Ruhr University Bochum by the University Library in cooperation with the Slavic Department/Lotman Institute. It constitutes one module within a larger Slavistics Portal, which is itself under the umbrella of the online German national clearinghouse of subject portals, Vascoda. This pedagogically-designed module is intended primarily for students and can be used either as a stand-alone e-learning tool or as an element of an integrated Slavic information literacy course. This article sets the broader historical and institutional context for the project, describes the content and layout of the LOTSE tutorial, and summarizes how it has been used in a recent undergraduate course on Slavic information literacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]