Information Literacy at the Faculty of Arts Hana Holoubková MUST Week, September 1, 2016
Outline Regular Courses Cooperation with Teachers Evening Lectures Friday Lectures Cooperation with Teachers A date with the library
Regular Lectures 12-13 topics offered each semester (at least twice) over 400 students per semester optional IT classroom (30 students)
WHAT do we Teach? Efective reading and evaluation of information Electronic information resources Citing and citation ethics Efective reading and evaluation of information Presentation and rhetoric skills Creative techniques for successful study (e.g. Mind mapping) How to choose a topic for an essay or thesis Time management – external lecturer (EL) Academic writing – EL MS Office (Word, Excel) – EL How to write a CV - EL How to prepare for a job interview -EL
Participants of Lectures students of the FA – especially bachelor and master's students PhD students academic staff of the FA students from other faculties – very rarely, especially FSS
Promotion posters FB group Informační vzdělávání ÚK FF MU mass email posters FB group Informační vzdělávání ÚK FF MU [Information literacy at CL FA MU] MUNI journal (occasionally) faculty events – SemestrSTART & SemestrEND
Methods registration required (limited capacity of the classroom) focused on a practical training and usability in study and working life feedback – online questionnaire (Google spreadsheet) sent by email after a lesson => We often find topics there for the next semester.
Evenings & Fridays Evening school Fridays 3 topics: Electronic information resources Citation and citation ethics Writing a scholarly text Fridays Unsuccessful attempt to engage more distance student
Certificate motivation for students for 3 attended lectures (in one semester) 201 from the spring semester 2015
Lectures for Ph.D. Students Topics: Writing and publishing a scientific article Grant application process Project's financial framework Information register of R&D results (RIV) Presentation skills for conferences Evaluation of theses (report writing)
Cooperation with teachers
Cooperation with Teachers basis: communication and cooperation with teachers content: information resources relevant to a particular field of study (licensed, freely available); citing and citation ethics duration: from 30 min to 1.5 h form: presentations in a classroom future: depends on relations with teachers, building a reputation, cooperation, communication, qualification of librarians (=> It's difficult to prepare a lesson of a high quality because of a large number of fields of study at the faculty.)
A Date With the Library at the beginning of each autumn semester general information about the library, its services and resources mainly for first year students
List of Courses and Lectures taught at other Faculties
Thank you for your attention Mgr. Hana Holoubková holoubkova@phil.muni.cz Reference services reference@phil.muni.cz http://www.facebook.com/knihovnaffmu The Central Library of FA MU http://knihovna.phil.muni.cz/