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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Let's Library! A 30-Minute Session to Get You Research-Ready
The first weeks of class are over and perhaps you are sitting with your course outline in-hand wondering how you will get all of your research done for your assignments. Fear not!
Let's Library, an introductory information session offered at Rutherford Library, can get your library skills research-ready!
A short 30 minutes may reduce your research stress by familiarizing you with the large number of resources and services the Libraries have to offer. Learn how to search our catalogue, find online content, search for your textbooks in our course materials collections, and other fantastic on-campus tips (like the locations of the nearest microwaves).
Held in the Learning Lounge of Rutherford Library North's main floor, these sessions are open to all UAlberta students.
You can choose one of our many sessions available between September 16-19 and 23-26 at 10:15 am or 2:15 pm. Additional evening sessions at 5:00 pm on September 18, 19, 25, and 26.
Sign up for a Let’s Library session HERE or you are welcome to drop-in!
Photo: Rutherford Librarian David Sulz cruises through our collection
What are your librarians up to? Turns out, it’s a lot of teaching!
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This is a guest post by librarians, Jessica Thorlakson and Janice KungThe University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) is a strong supporter of teaching and information literacy. In 2018, your library staff taught approximately 667 sessions with approximately 17,542 library users. That’s a lot of people!
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One of the best ways to do this is through the collaboration between professors/instructors and subject librarians. Librarians come into classes and provide relevant library and information literacy instruction that are customized to meet the learning outcomes of the course. These are “course based” instructional sessions and can cover everything from effectively searching databases for literature, citation manager tools, research metrics, research data management, and more.
However, UAL also offers many “non-course based” instructional sessions, those not connected to specific UAlberta courses. These provide additional opportunities to pick up other information literacy skills or additional topics relevant to research or campus life, such as how to manage a unique identifier for your researcher profile (e.g. ORCID), identifying predatory publishers, and systematic review searching.
In the visualizations below, you can see some of our instruction statistics from 2013-2018.
The fall term sees the largest influx of new students, so naturally it is the library’s busiest month for instruction, as we reach out to our users and provide an orientation about our services and resources. While much of our instruction is considered “course based” (in fact, 72% of all library instruction is embedded within the curriculum), the non-course based sessions offer greater flexibility so the library can provide more in-depth sessions on a variety of topics, such as the monthly three-hour training sessions on systematic review searching.
We look forward to another busy, library instruction year with all of you. If you are looking for some library instruction for your class, try contacting your subject librarian.
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