Materials from Information literacy workshop at UEM - October 2019

In October, Anna Stockman from Blekinge Institute of Technology facilitated two workshops for library staff. The participants from UEM came to the first workshop which was a follow up of the 2018 information literacy workshop.

The second workshop, "Introduction to information literacy" was organized for participants from libraries outside UEM.

The presentations used during the workshops have been combined into one single PDF-document.

Course on how to use Research4Life. APPLY NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 5th!

Interesting possibility to learn more about Research4Life.

"Research4Life is [...] launching a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) that will equip existing and future users of the Research4Life programs (Hinari, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI) with the knowledge and skills required to access and use the information efficiently. The call for applications to attend the MOOC is now open, and the course will take place between 11 November to 15 December 2019."

"Participants are expected to spend on average six to eight hours per week on lessons and activities, such as contributing to discussion forums and webinars."

Read more about the course.

Two workshops on information literacy

Last week, a follow up workshop on information literacy for UEM library staff took place in the computer lab of the library. The participants were coming from several UEM libraries in Maputo.

It was a follow up of a workshop held in 2018 and it included different aspects of information literacy. An important part of the training is to learn how librarians can help library users to get to a higher level of information literacy in an academic context.

Examples from the content are: information retrieval, search techniques (like Boolean searches), evaluation of results, scientific articles, references, citations and diagnostic tests.

Materials from the workshop will be posted soon in this blog.

Participants from the UEM Library

October 28th-29th a workshop was organized for librarians from other institutions of higher education as well as government agencies. The content was similar to the content of the workshop for UEM librarians, but with more focus on the databases made available in Mozambique. Which are they, what do they include and how do you search those databases in an efficient way?

In addition to this, Dr Horacio Zimba gave a presentation of the research library consortium of Mozambique.

Some of the librarians from other universities and institutes.

Students in Sweden, part two

We were happy to meet with the students and the library director here at Blekinge Institute of Technology for two days.
Backward planning, Open educational resources and Search techniques were on the agenda. And a lot of time taking pictures in the snow, which finally came towards the end of the visit to Sweden.

The students on the pictures are Acuceno Chicolena, Abnadia Raul, Amarilda Chissano, Rui Antonio, Irzelinda Mussa and Lazifa Mahuae.

Information literacy - workshop presentations

At last! I'm finally sharing the Powerpoint presentations from the information literacy workshop with you (but now as pdf-documents).

The first presentation is about

• the concept of information literacy 
• references
• evaluating sources

The second presentation is on how to communicate with faculty about information literacy.

Workshop : Information literacy, UEM library June 5th-7th

This week we are exploring the concept of information literacy. The content of the workshop is:

• A general introduction to information literacy
• Exploration of which types of resources UEM has access to, subscribed as well as free
• Understanding the role of librarians teaching information literacy

Some documents which may be of interest are:
Recomendações da IFLA sobre a Literacia Informacional e Mediática Versão Final Parasobreviver e evoluir, 2011 (2 pages)

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, 2015 (18 pages)

The SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy, 2011 (14 pages)

Writing a good research question [2018-06-06]

How to spot fake news, IFLA, 2018 (Poster, also available in Portuguese)

Many libraries have written about the CRAAP test, a test used to evaluate sources. I found something from the Benedectine university, CRAAP. Search on the web to find more examples.