Septentrio Conference Series  

Chris Morrison

This presentation reports on the University of Kent’s Copyright Literacy Strategy. The strategy was published in July 2020to raise awareness of copyright amongst staff and students. Thishelps minimise the risk of copyright infringement, as well aspreventi... see more

Andreas Fagervik, Inga Buset Langfeldt, Anne L. Lorange, Idun Knutsdatter Østerdal

October is when the NTNU University Library usually offers physical writing events, assisting students with academic writing. For obvious reasons this was not possible in 2020, so we decided to create a digital event instead. We wanted to gather students ... see more

Keziah Gibbs, Hannah Pyman

With 2020 bringing unprecedented circumstances for us all, at the University of Essex we’ve been striving to move our previously in-person information literacy and research support teaching online. In doing this, we wanted to see the unexpected situationa... see more

Philip Russell

This paper presents Ireland’s public awareness campaign –‘Be Media Smart’-which was launched in Spring 2019 to combat misinformation and fake news and encourage people of all ages to stop, think, and check that information they see, read or hear across an... see more

Jessica Thorn

In 2017 only 30 students out of 120 inthe nursing education program passed the examination assignment, a scientific report,on their first course. The coordinators of the course set out together withtheir liaison librarian to change the depressing scores. ... see more

Elisabeth Näverå, Anna Karin Olsson

This paper elucidates the process of creating and maintaining a successful librarian-faculty partnership which originally was intended as a quality improvement tool for a bachelor program in business administration at University West, Sweden. In 2012, aft... see more

Andrew Whitworth

In its modern form, information literacy was named by Zurkowski (1974), but humans have been creating and using information landscapes since prehistory. Lloyd (2010, 9-10) describes these landscapes as “intersubjectively created spaces that have resulted ... see more

Pål Steiner, Ingunn Rødland, Henry Langseth, Christian Højbjerg Hansen

Embarking on planning and design of new library courses, or just even redesigning them, might be challenging in an everyday busy schedule. Especially if you want to try out new digital applications or features that could give the training an edge towards ... see more

Charlotte Wind, Helle Brink, Dorthe Brauner Sejersen, Lisbeth Ramsgaard Carlsen, Ulla Buch Nilson

Today students are met with expectations of being able to navigate in a broad spectrum of digital challenges. The STAK project aims at developing specific digital didactic designs in the form of learning patterns that support and develop students' digital... see more

Anne Schad Bergsaker, Hilde Westbye, Andrea Gasparini

For the future lawyer digital skills will become valuable, but at the moment there are few opportunities to acquire advanced digital skills through the master’s of law programme at the University of Oslo. One new elective course, “Legal Technology: Artifi... see more

Maria Viftrup Schneider

In order to address a need for skills development regarding reference management and literature searching in teaching staff, IT and Library teamed up to design a series of online courses. The library approach was to design courses that could also support ... see more

Ingrid Galtung, Solveig Kavli, Dina Møll Schoder, Marianne Tønnesen

This roundtable addresses how two Norwegian writing centres –in different stages of establishment and settled within different constitutional frames –handle staff policy and aim to facilitate academic writing to their target group and main users, namely t... see more

Ingerid S. Straume

Dealing with plagiarism can be seen as a track race where the speed is infinitely increasing. Participants in the race are students and faculty, but also software developers, university administrators, academic developers and libraries – with authors as p... see more

Karin Pettersson

Many university libraries hold cultural heritage collections that are unknown to the majority of students. The digitisation of these collections offers new ways of working with primary sources, and with it, an increasing interest in archives and older col... see more

Maria Unger, Magdalena Svanberg, Miritt Zisser

Is source discernment at the root of all information literacy? In today’s media landscape, finding information is easy. Finding information that is scientifically correct and trustworthy is much more difficult. An added problem for students today is that ... see more

Linda Borg, Marie-Louise Eriksson

Librarians and writing tutors in higher education are working intensely to teach information literacy to students. But the extent to which this work is done collaborative or separately differs greatly between the universities. •How can we facilitate colla... see more

Åsne Ø. Høgetveit

How can the University Library better accommodate for students and faculty who need practical help with getting their writing done and develop their work habits? For many involved in academia, students and staff alike, the crucial task of writing is also ... see more

Lenita Brodin Berggren, Ika Jorum

First year architecture students are introduced to the library by taking part in an “Escape Room” activity in the KTH library. The aim of this initiative is to introduce the students to the library space and the library ´s resources in an interactive and ... see more

Lisa Emerson, Angela Feekery

Teachers and students are important stakeholders in the information literacy(IL) space. Yet, talking about IL beyond the library can be like speaking a foreign language or engaging with a narrow ‘research skills’ focus. Our project explored what the infor... see more

Ellen Nierenberg, Torstein Låg, Tove I. Dahl

There is a need for short and easily administered measures for assessing students’ levels of information literacy (IL), as currently existing measures are long and cumbersome. We have therefore created a suite of tools, the “Tromsø Information Literacy Su... see more

Jozika Dolenc, Oliver Renn, Leo Betschart, Joachim Schnabl

Universities educate students for working in knowledge-driven societies. Whereas subject-related knowledge is part of every curriculum, institutions of higher education fail to teach systematically how to utilize and benefit from today’s variety of digita... see more

Hege Charlotte Lysholm Faber, Michael Grote, Eli Heldaas Seland

Courses in “generic” or “transferable” skills have during the last decade become an established part of the PhD-education in Norway, and they are today an important part of the academic libraries’ research support. At the same time academic writing center... see more

Lilja Marlen Johannessen, Linn Kristine Kristensen, Kari Kalland

The Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet, launched the joint course “Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in Health Care” the fall semester 2020, to our knowledge, the first of its kind. The course is developed for all the Bachelor programmes at t... see more

Roger Säljö

See RECORDINGHuman beings have an incredible talent for learning and for converting the insights they make into technologies. Some of these technologies (hammers, knives, bicycles etc.) transform our bodily capacities; they change the way we interact with... see more

Tove I. Dahl

See RECORDINGWhat if we allowed ourselves to rethink what becoming information literate is about, or can be? In this talk, I will take us along paths of thought that allow us to re-imagine what it might mean to become an information literate person. I wil... see more