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Focus on: Information Literacy
| Working together, faculty
members and librarians have developed some interesting
approaches to the teaching of writing, study and
research skills to their students, with impressive
results. And the Libraries are looking for new ways
to partner with faculty to expand the teaching of
these important skills to students. |
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Take a look at our three information-packed
articles:
Information
Literacy Instruction: We All Have a Role talks about
the basic research skills students should acquire to
ensure success and describes various initiatives underway
at the Libraries to promote the teaching of those skills.
Success
in the Sciences: A Collaboration with Faculty outlines
two very different initiatives, one targetted at students
at risk of failing to attain the minimum GPA to proceed,
and the other to give senior students in a professional
program needed library orientation and research skills.
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Faculty and Librarians Team-Teaching in the Professional
Writing Program describes a course designed to develop
the writing and research skills of students in the Faculty
of Arts' Professional Writing Program, which uses a
lab/lecture combination to great success.
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Arranging
Information Literacy (IL) Classes for Your
Students
If your students are expected
to write a research paper as part of their
course requirements, why not invite one
of our librarians to give a class on library
research methods within your discipline?
IL Coordinators
To book a class, please contact the
Information Literacy Coordinator at the
appropriate library. A list of IL coordinators
and their contact information is available
at
http://www.library.yorku.ca/FacultyAndGrad/RequestLibraryInstruction.htm.
Course instructors should book their library
and information literacy classes as far
in advance as possible so as to be able
to set a date which is convenient for their
course scheduling.
IL Services
For a description of the full range
of Information Literacy services offered
through the Scott Library Reference Department,
see http://www.library.yorku.ca/ScottReference/faculty/index.htm.
This helpful page provides answers to some
frequently asked questions about information
literacy, including how librarians can help
your students reach the outcomes you envision
for them, available IL help for internet
based or correspondence courses, and so
on.
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