Abstract: The teaching of literature retrieval course is now in big data environment, and the object is the generation after 90s who used to using electronic resource. However, the course setting, teaching content, teaching mode has not been adjusted with the change of teaching object and its environment timely, which is bound to affect the teaching effect. Through the analysis on the status of course teaching, this paper tried to find out the restricting factors, put forward the reasonable countermeasures, so as to establish multi-dimensional teaching situation conforming to the teaching object and environment and effectively enhance the teaching effect.