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Information Literacy at the Faculty of Arts

Learn about the regular courses, evening lectures, and Friday lectures offered at the Faculty of Arts. Discover the various topics covered, including electronic information resources, citation ethics, effective reading, and presentation skills. Find out how to choose a topic for an essay or thesis, improve time management, and enhance academic writing skills. Cooperation and support with teachers and the library are also emphasized. Attend the Date with the Library event to get acquainted with the library services and resources.

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Information Literacy at the Faculty of Arts

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  1. Information Literacy at the Faculty of Arts Hana Holoubková MUST Week, September 1, 2016

  2. Outline • RegularCourses • EveningLectures • FridayLectures • CooperationwithTeachers • A datewiththelibrary

  3. Regular Lectures • 12-13 topics offered each semester (at least twice) • over 400 students per semester • optional • IT classroom (30 students)

  4. WHAT do we Teach? • Electronic information resources • Citing and citation ethics • Efectivereading and evaluation ofinformation • Presentation and rhetoricskills • Creative techniques for successful study (e.g. Mind mapping) • How to choose a topic for anessayor thesis • Time management – externallecturer (EL) • Academicwriting – EL • MS Office (Word, Excel) – EL • How to write a CV - EL • How to prepare for a job interview -EL

  5. Participants of Lectures • 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

  6. Promotion • mass email • posters • FB group Informační vzdělávání ÚK FF MU [Information literacy at CL FA MU] • MUNI journal (occasionally) • faculty events – SemestrSTART & SemestrEND

  7. Methods • registration required (limited capacity of the classroom) • focused on a practical training and usability in study andworking life • feedback – online questionnaire (Google spreadsheet) sent by email after a lesson => We often find topics there for the next semester.

  8. Evenings & Fridays • Eveningschool • 3 topics: Electronicinformationresources Citation and citationethics Writing a scholarly text • Fridays • Unsuccessfulattempt to engage more distance student

  9. Certificate • motivation for students • for 3 attended lectures (in one semester) • 201 from the spring semester 2015

  10. Lectures for Ph.D. Students • 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)

  11. Cooperation with teachers

  12. CooperationwithTeachers • basis: communication and cooperationwithteachers • content: information resources relevant to a particular field of study (licensed, freelyavailable); citing and citationethics • duration: from 30 min to 1.5 h • 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.)

  13. A Date With the Library • atthebeginningofeachautumnsemester • generalinformationaboutthelibrary, itsservices and resources • mainlyforfirstyearstudents

  14. List ofCourses and LecturestaughtatotherFaculties

  15. Thank you for your attention Mgr. Hana Holoubková holoubkova@phil.muni.cz Reference services reference@phil.muni.cz http://www.facebook.com/knihovnaffmu The Central Library of FA MU http://knihovna.phil.muni.cz/

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