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Chalmers: Information Literacy
 
Chalmers University of Technology

Course Outline The course given in English is offered three times every academic year. It consists of three full days of instruction as well as an individual information search which includes relevance estimation of the search results. We also offer the option to book a time to make an individual search with the assistance of an Information Specialist. Credits To get credits for the course you are required to participate in at least 80 per cent of the course. You also have to write a report showing an understanding of the process of information retrieval and subsequent handling of search results for the individual subject choosen. The course gives three (3) higher education credits in the doctoral programme.

Stora Sökguiden (The Search Guide )
 

The Search Guide is an interactive course on how to search, evaluate and work with information. It is especially useful when you are writing a paper.

Course in Information Literacy
 
Chalmers University of Technology

The course given in English is offered at least once every academic year. It consists of three full days of instruction as well as an individual information search which includes relevance estimation of the search results. We also offer the option to book a time to make an individual search with the assistance of an Information Specialist.

The library culture, the teaching culture and the information literacy concept
 
NordInfoLit

Swedish universities today have to handle more students with different backgrounds and academic experience than ever before.

Information Literacy - Sources of Information - University of Skovde
 
University of Skövde

This bibliography contains only documents that are freely available via the world wide web about information literacy .

Nordic Summer School on Information Literacy 2006
 

This summerschool is number 5 organized in a Nordic country. The local planning group includes representatives from Stockholm City Library, the Library of Karolinska institutet, V丳j?iversity Library and Stockholm University Library. The focus of the summer school is on library specific methods and different perspectives of information literacy. Learning among adults, pedagogical conversations, students as peer educators, learning environments are also included in the programme.

Into Info - Subject oriented guide in information literacy
 

Into Info is a system of programs for learning about how to obtain and handle information in engineering, science and medicine efficiently. The program also provides information about and links to a selection of high quality information resources for research, development and practical work. The availability is restricted and based on aquired licenses.

Information Retrieval When? Where? How?
 

This is a web based introduction to information retrieval. In a couple of hours the student will learn the basics of gathering information from databases and the Internet, and utilising library catalogues. The course takes the user step by step through the entire search process right to the actual publication the student seeking.

Someone else´s job: måluppfyllelse av 1.kap.9 paragrafen högskolelagen avseende studenters informationskompetens
 
Orebro University, Sweden

In order to collect data for a description of the situation websites, questionnaires to vice-cancellors, chief librarians and students' unions were used and studied. Furthermore 8 universities for interviewing representatives of staff were selected.

Evaluations of courses held by the University Library of Karolinska Insitutet
 

The University Library uses WebSurvey, an online tool to evalute the courses held by the library. Some of the result are freely accessable, some need user identifications

Webquests at the University Library of Karolinska Intstitutet
 

A webquest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that students interact with comes from resources on the internet. The Webquest method has been used at the University Library since 2000.

SearchCollectPublish - SLU Libraries
 
Swedish University of Agriculture

The English version is mostly a translation of the Swedish one: S�ka Samla Skriva. Differently from other search guides this one includes information about publishing.

NordINFOLIT, the Nordic Forum for Information Literacy
 

The NordINFOLIT network has a steering board with representatives from all Nordic Countries and the network is behind the arrangements of a Nordic Summer Schools on IL, the International conferences named Creating Knowledge as well as keeping up a website with nordic and national activities of interest.