As a school media specialist, I am responsible for teaching book location skills and supporting information literacy instruction in my school. Basic library skills instruction in the primary grades establishes a foundation for more advanced information literacy instruction in the upper grades. After professional observation of older elementary students having difficulty locating books and a needs assessment of third graders that supported this observation, I decided to do an action research study with second graders. The purpose of the study was to determine if and how using an instructional video with second graders during library orientation affected components of learner motivation and ability to locate books in the easy and fiction sections of the school media center. The technology intervention was a 10- minute video using elementary student actors to host a tour of the media center and to model correct book location skills. The video was incorporated into a library skills lesson using John Kelle r's ARCS model of motivation which focuses on attention, relevancy, confidence and satisfaction. The setting was a rural public primary school, and the participants were 110 second graders. Data collection included a pre-intervention alphabetization skills test and post- intervention performance observations, student interviews and a student attitude survey. Results indicated that the students were attentive to the video and skills lesson and seemed motivated to learn the skills, but that the majority was not able to independently locate books after the lesson. I concluded that students had difficulty understanding the shelving and labeling system and preferred browsing to selecting a particular book. I determined that future lessons should be based on a step-by-step approach to the book location process and should be reviewed with the students and modified as needed throughout the school year. I shared my study, results and conclusions with the school principals, second grade teachers, system media specialists and system administrators in an informal reception featuring a PowerPoint presentation.