Teaching materials are very important for user training in libraries. This paper describes and analyses the characteristics of the instructional materials created by Spanish academic libraries. It evaluates a sample of 72 resources in public access by applying 36 indicators grouped in ten categories. Only 24% of libraries were found to have created such materials, focusing on explaining the sources of information and library services. Only three produced materials addressing information literacy. In general, these instructional materials were of poor quality from an educational point of view, (few educational objectives, few exercises to reinforce learning, few Pre-tests, and little final assessment) and commonly were little interactive (50% involved slides and 20% pdfs). In conclusion, most of these teaching materials appeared to be at an early stage of development and did not allow the user to either completely or autonomously follow the learning process.
