Working in partnership

Working in partnership with academic staff and UCD Programme Boards, we support the teaching of information skills through:

• Librarians working with individual academic staff.
• Embedding information skills, customised to meet identified school needs, at the level required for any discipline (within modules).
• Provision of information skills training for tutors/teaching assistants.
• Provision of skills workshops for students.

A team of experienced teaching librarians is available to provide this support to the academic community.

Engaging the students

When the acquisition of these skills is linked to credited course work, and embedded in the curriculum, students tend to engage more actively in the process. This results in an improved educational experience for them, and a better use of resources in assignments. Students also become more self-directed in their learning, and develop transferable lifelong learning skills.

Why is it important?

Being information literate, and effectively navigating the complex landscape of proliferating information sources, requires that students develop the ability to:

• Recognise an information need
• Identify the most appropriate source
• Use the information effectively.

Sample skills workshops

• Identifying and accessing a wide range of resources.
• Developing a research strategy.
• Evaluating the information.
• Ethically and accurately citing the information use.

Involving the Library in your School’s programme

Depending on the time allocated, training sessions can be adjusted to each discipline and module requirement, in order to the identified information skills needs, at the level required.