"...The ability to find, evaluate and correctly cite information – found both in UCD library resources and the vast range of free electronic sources – is a key graduate attribute and the library’s involvement in the module facilitates the development of the students as effective learners.   The students can then face into further and ongoing studies with confidence and commitment."

“Each year the Library contributes a number of sessions to the level 1 module "Study Skills in the Humanities". These sessions cover the most important aspects of using the library's resources, both electronic and print and students have always stated in their feedback how effective and useful they find the sessions."

Library skills workshops have been embedded in modules in the following Schools/Colleges:

• School of Economics
• School of Business (Quinn)
• School of Physiotherapy and Performance Science
• College of Arts & Celtic Studies.

“We all live in a world where information proliferates and no one individual owns knowledge; this means that the ability to sift and sort what we find in the library and on the web, through search engines and databases, for relevance, consistency and reliability, is critical to academic work.

The ability to critically evaluate the ever increasing range of electronic resources is at the heart of the teaching enterprise, one in which librarians and academics must play an important part.

If you want your students to learn research skills by means of a delivery system like EBL or PBL, you cannot do so unless you draw on the expertise and knowledge of library staff.

Without close liaison with the library from the earliest stages, EBL in English simply would not have happened, and our contact with library staff has definitely improved the module design and delivery.”

Ms Alison Clancy, Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems:

"Involving the librarian challenges us to "think outside the box" rather than being driven by content alone resulting in a more dynamic and creative approach"

The Library has supported Problem Based Learning in the following Schools and Centres:

• School of Medicine and Medical Science
• School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems
• Centre for Veterinary Medicine in the School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine
• UCD Teaching & Learning.

Dr Claire McGuinness, Lecturer, School of Information and Library Studies

"Our clear priority in designing the module "Information Literacy" was to provide a stimulating  blend of theoretical and practical content, in order to ensure that students develop information skills in the context of actually researching and writing an academic essay.

Collaborating with UCD Library staff has enabled a blend of experience and expertise which would have been otherwise impossible; the result is a highly-structured skills module, incorporating a carefully-planned balance of lectures and practical sessions, designed to guide students through the difficult process of writing assignments of academic standard."