18 articles in this issue
Pål Steiner, Ingunn Rødland, Henry Langseth, Christian Højberg 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
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 p... see more
Eystein Gullbekk
PhD research has been depicted as a process of belonging and becoming. Through information-related activities, such as looking for, finding, avoiding or citing literature, PhD-students connect with people and texts that possess cognitive authori... see more
Chris Morrison
This presentation reports on the University of Kent’s development of a copyright literacy strategy. This has been developed to raise awareness of copyright amongst staff and students in order to minimise the risk of copyright infringement, as well as prev... see more
Thomas Basbøll
Academic writing is the art of writing down what you know for the purpose of discussing it with other knowledgeable people. In so far as students and scholars approach it in these terms, they often tend to focus on the role of kno... see more
Michael Grote, Fredrik Kavli, Eli Heldaas Seland
With climate change and the necessity to reduce travel the public focus on developing online spaces for learning and meeting has strengthened. For this reason we are arranging a blended seminar for the Libraries' network for ph.d.-support: The attendants ... see more
Oliver Renn, Jozica Dolenc, 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 an... see more
Malin Ekstrand, Johan Lundevall
As higher education learning environments need to become increasingly flexible, podcast technology is a creative way to entwine new pedagogical methods with ICT.1For academic libraries a podcast, unlike textual content, can be beneficial as it keeps users... see more
Janine Tessem Strøm, Cathinka Dahl Hambro
Students at higher education institutions largely communicate their acquired knowledge through written assignments.The results follow the students through their career as documentation of their competence. A dimension of academic writing is to demonstrate... see more
Cecilia Black Fylking, Elin Opheim
Journal clubs are closely interlinked with evidence based practice. At Faculty of Social and Health Sciences at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences our students are required to write literature reviews for their bachelor ... see more
Justin Schell, Meghan Sitar
Information literacy at the graduate level can happen at the intersection of research method education and mentorship into a disciplinary community of practice with its own traditions of inquiry, communication, and knowledge creation. Funded by the Instit... 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 her discussion of information literacy, Annemaree Lloyd (2010) developed the notion of the information landscape as a way of conceptualising the informational and technological resources arrayed around individuals and groups, and which they must learn ... see more
Marie-Louise Eriksson, Linda Borg
Today many librarians and writing tutors are teaching information literacy in higher education.How can we facilitate collaboration on questions regarding this teaching?How do we relate our teaching to various national and international frameworks and guid... see more
Maria Unger, 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&... see more
Helle Brink, Charlotte Wind, Ulla Buch Nilson, Dorthe Brauner Sejersen, Lisbeth Ramsgaard Carlsen
Today students are met with expectations of being able to navigate in a broad spectre 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
Fredrik Eriksson
Universities tend to have two main tasks, namely research and education. Since 1999 the law that govern higher education in Sweden added a third task for the universities: to relate to their local environment. In other words they had to reach out with the... see more
Erja Moore
In Finland, all higher education institutions are committed to following a national policy to deal with suspected violations of good scientific practice. All suspicions of research misconduct are dealt with at the local level in the institution. If “the p... see more