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Information Literacy Courses at the Faculty of Arts

Information Literacy Courses at the Faculty of Arts. Mgr. Tereza Schwarzová Matýsová, Mgr. Hana Holoubková The Central Library FA MU http://knihovna.phil.muni.cz/ 4th September 2014, MUST Week. Information Literacy Courses - Regular Lessons. What do we T each?

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Information Literacy Courses at the Faculty of Arts

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  1. Information Literacy Courses at the Faculty of Arts Mgr. Tereza Schwarzová Matýsová, Mgr. Hana Holoubková The Central Library FA MU http://knihovna.phil.muni.cz/ 4th September 2014, MUST Week

  2. Information Literacy Courses - Regular Lessons What do we Teach? • Electronic information resources • Citing and citation ethics • Academic writing(cooperation with CEINVE) • Creation of questionnaires (CEINVE) • MS Office (Word, Excel) • Presentation and rhetoric skills • Online tools (Google tools, timemanagement, publishing)(CEINVE) • Information visualization (CEINVE) • Creative techniques for successful study

  3. Participants of Lessons • 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

  4. Who Trains? • (reference) librarian • External collaborators • Colleagues from the Division of Information and Library Studies (currently project CEINVE - Information Literacy Centre: Development of Information Literacy at Masaryk University ) • Librarian colleagues (especially from MU)

  5. Promotion and Methods • mass email sent to all current students of the FA, posters, Facebook • registration required (limited capacity of the classroom) • focused on practical training and usability in study andworking life • feedback – online questionnaire (Google spreadsheet) sent by email after a lesson => new topics for the next semester

  6. Creative Techniquesfor Successful Study • Mind Mapping • Brainstorming • Workingwithassociations • Speed reading • SixThinkingHats

  7. Why do we Include these Topics? • techniques can be used for the purpose of study, regardless of the field • useful in later life (working, private) • students usually do not have an opportunity to get to know them from anywhere else • creative techniques lesson is one of the favourite ones (=> many participants, good evaluation)

  8. CooperationwithTeachers • fieldsof study: psychology, Czech language, Czech literature, classicalstudies, educational science • basis: communication and cooperationwithteachers • content: information resources relevant to a particular field of study (licensed, freelyavailable); citing and citationethics • form: presentations in aclassroom • future: • depends on relations withteachers, building a reputation, cooperation, communication, qualificationoflibrarians (=> It's difficult to prepare a lesson of a high qualitybecauseof a large number of fields of studyatthefaculty.)

  9. Lessons for Ph.D. Students • Cooperation with CEINVE • 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)

  10. Forfreshmen At the beginning of each autumn semester Generalinformation about the library, its services and resources Librarycatalogue „A Date with the Library“

  11. Tools for More Effective Work(own experience) • Google Docs (documents) – suitable for working together on documents (text, presentation, table), creating simple questionnaires and surveys, working with the results of the questionnaires • SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.net) – online tool for sharing presentations • XMind (http://www.xmind.net/) – tool for creation and sharing mind maps • Prezi (http://prezi.com/) – online tool for creation unusual presentations • Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) – image manipulation program • Picmonkey (http://www.picmonkey.com/) – free online photo editor

  12. List ofcoursesand lessonsofotherfaculties

  13. Thank you for your Attention Mgr. Hana Holoubková, Mgr. Tereza Schwarzová Matýsová Reference Services reference@phil.muni.cz ICQ: 362131842 http://www.facebook.com/knihovnaffmu The Central Library of the FA MU http://knihovna.phil.muni.cz

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