Teaching and learning services
On this page you can read more about the teaching offered by the University Library and about the cooperation between the library and program or course coordinators.
Searching and evaluating information
Do your students have an assignment where they have to search and evaluate information independently? In that case you as a teacher can book a free workshop with us from the library. We offer three different workshop packages that enable progression. Together with you as a teacher, we discuss the form based on the students' needs.
The workshop packages aimed at students who are going to write an essay are based on the assumption that the students already have basic knowledge of information searching. It is therefore important to keep the students' prior knowledge in mind when submitting a booking request.
We also offer self-study guides as an alternative.
Booking form - information retrieval workshop
Other questions about university library teaching (not booking)
Our way of teaching
Our way of teaching is to create opportunities for students to be able to seek and evaluate knowledge on a scientific level, as highlighted in the The Swedish Higher Education Act (SFS 1992:1434). We also provide opportunities for students to be able to make adequate progress, also highlighted in Linnaeus University's objectives 2025 (swedish). In relation to this, information literacy and opportunities for students to practice their own ability are important. We define information literacy in the following way:
- Information literacy is the process of finding and evaluating the information needed to solve a task.
- The process is in turn based on several skills, as highlighted for example in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education by the American Library Association (2015, p.8). See Figure 1.
Our workshops
We focus on aspects of information literacy that is of particular importance in an academic context, but we also strive to be part of lifelong learning within and beyond the future professional world. Our approach is inspired by the flipped classroom method, which means that students are expected to take part in material before the teaching session. We also base our workshops on active learning, which means that the students are given the opportunity to practice and deepen their abilities in student-active exercises. To support the students' continued needs after the session, there are various supports such as Kom med din uppgift or UB:s chat.
Academic writing and study skills
The Academic Skills Centre (link to https://lnu.se/en/library/Writing-and-referencing/academic-skills-centre/) (ASC) offers teaching about academic writing in connection with independent work on various levels. The teaching can be adapted to suit the subject and the requirements of the assignment. A lecture about study skills can be given at the beginning of an academic program.
Examples of topics:
- The structure, language and style of academic texts
- Referencing and referencing programs
- Planning your studies and effective reading strategies
Cooperation between the University Library and teaching staff
Students’ abilities to search for resources and to write academically are always developed in connection with subject studies. The library’s support is the most effective when the librarian or ASC staff and the course teacher cooperate on a well thought-out plan.
The University Library suggests that:
- The course or program coordinator cooperates with the librarian or ASC staff to identify the courses where teaching is required the most.
- The course coordinator informs the librarian or ASC staff of the students’ assignment and together they discuss suitable teaching content and teaching method.
Evaluation of the teaching sessions can be done by the University Library as well as in regular course evaluations. Feedback is important for the quality of our teaching.