Library introduction sessions 1st year bachelor
Objectives
- Teaching students to find relevant documents in the library.
- Introducing students to different sorts of sources in the library (books, journals, e-sources).
- Introducing students to different parts of the library collection and helping them to get those subcollections.
- Teaching students how to work with LIMO.
- Introducing students to the library building and its different services.
Survey of the context
Explanation in (multimedia)room
- Website CBA (http://bib.kuleuven.be/cba): starting point for all your searches.
- Tutorial information literacy.
- LIMO: learning how to look up things (basic search), how to interprete and adapt the results of the search, how to reserve books and to put an order for the stockroom and at least how to examine your own reader's administration.
- Showing electronic journals and databases for their specific field of study, with in short, all the possibilities.
Guided tour
Trip through the building, especially focusing on that part of the collection which is important for that particular group of students: the main desk with its loan robots and the technical infrastructure (computers, printers, scanners, photocopiers...)
Practically
Length: 1h30, 45 minutes full explanation in one of the rooms of CBA (usually in multimedia), by projection and afterwards a guided tour through the library, during 45 minutes.
Size of the group: about 25 students.
Contact: Linda Stoop, librarian cluster 6, linda.stoop@bib.kuleuven.be, tel. 28141
Please place your request at least two weeks in advance.
The instructor's assignment
When students get a task beforehand, they are much more motivated, and they can more easily remember things, in spite of the big amount of information. Another additional benefit is that we can choose the examples in function of the assignment.
