Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Library and Information Centre LIBRARY INSTRUCTION SERVICE In Aristotle University of Thessalonki Efi Emmanouilidou October 2011
The largest university in Greece 7 Faculties organized into 33 Schools 5 faculties with only 1 school each 4 independent Schools 2.000+ faculty members More than 50.000 students 40.000 + in undergraduate programmes 10.000+ in postgraduate programmes.
1 Central library (founded 1927) 6 Subject libraries 46 Departmental libraries 1 central students reading room many departmental reading rooms (almost each departmental library has a reading room) 1 researchers reading room
OPAC > 1.000.000 items Closed collections of rare and old material, mainly in greek Union Catalogue of Hellenic Academic Libraries A-Z list of journals (print & electronic) Institutional Repository Muse global Ichnilatis (federated search engine) Bibliographic management software RefWorks HEAl-Link & AUTh resources: 20.000+ journals 50+ Bibliographical databases 360.000+ e-books
2000 Rapid increase of available online electronic resources Academic community members need training Result Library introduces new services Online Reference and Interlibrary Loan e-courses Blackboard Library Instruction Service Digitization Institutional Repository
Late 2002: Service established under 3rd CSF/EPEAEK II Target: familiarization of the university community with the new e-resources and services According to Library s Regulation: [it is in service's proprieties] to organize and conduct training courses for users in order to locate, assess and appropriate use of information and to create electronic educational tools, which relate to its services and are available through the Library s website
During the program Modernization of AUTh s Library System a group of librarians planned and implemented a training program for AUTh s libraries personnel Seminars for general (cataloging, classification, authority control, interlibrary loan) and special issues of library science (archives organization, bibliographic instruction, preservation, information seeking)
Lectures on a range of issues (use of databases, libraries and publishing user education via web, the internet as a research tool, changing patterns of user behavior with the internet, copyright issues, library s consortia, distance distributed learning, digital libraries) Symposium on Weaving new webs: Cooperation for Survival in the New Millenium Educational trip (a small group of librarians) in important libraries in Great Britain
Library Instruction Service starting point 2003 Service is staffed by 2 librarians Preparation of seminar hall & infrastructure Seminars design Preparation of seminars evaluation sheet Preparation of guides for the available resources Preparation of an online attendance request, available at library s website First contact with the faculty members
2003-2006 continuous change of staff Late 2006-2009 5 postgraduates & PhD candidates of different disciplines hired Cooperation with the faculty in order to promote subjectoriented seminars in more systematic way 2009-2011 2 librarians 1 librarian (occasionally)
Scheduled lectures Monthly program available on library s website (online attendance request) Course integrated instruction in collaboration with the faculty Instruction by appointment Collaboration with departmental libraries and University s services (e.g. Department of Studies, School of Modern Greek Language, etc.)
quick guides and leaflets for library s services & sources available in library s website participation in Departments external assessment
2003-2009 Different types of seminars (duration and number of seminars, content) and ways of approaching users (leaflets, posters, handouts, emails etc.) were applied 2009-2 types of seminars offered a) Library s Resources & Services (subject-oriented) presentation of available Library s resources information literacy topics b) Bibliographic research management (RefWorks)
1 st case Undergraduate level - Permanent collaboration Faculty of Science, School of Biology (Plants Physiology) 3 professors teaching the course 3 rd semester students 2 lectures offered by library staff compulsory attendance 2 assignments delivery through Blackboard (web-based course management system) librarian evaluates the assignments given, and the score counts in the course's final grade
2 nd case Postgraduate level - Permanent collaboration Faculty of Science, School of Biology Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainable Exploitation of Native Plants 1 st semester in postgraduate studies program 1 week duration (5 hours/day) assignment delivery (searching for, selection and classification of scientific information using digital technologies, generation of bibliographic list according to peer reviewed journal style) presentation of each assignment to the class librarian participates in assignments evaluation
Library Instruction Service Continuous staff training Attendance of invited seminars, lectures and workshops organized by the Library Study of library instruction service practices via other universities websites Attendance of electronic resources commercial presentations
Library Instruction Service Continuous staff training Study of information literacy literature Participation in workshop Introducing scientific research and information literacy in undergraduate studies program organised by HEAL-Link in collaboration with the library of University of California, Berkeley and Alexandreio Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki. June 2010
Library Instruction Service Goals Familiarise all graduate, PhD and last year students with the Service & library s electronic resources Collaboration with the faculty members in order to explore new approaches for research-based learning Survey to determine information literacy needs among university members Creation of an e-guide on information literacy topics
Thank you for your attention! Efi Emmanouilidou eemmanou@lib.auth.gr Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Library Instruction Service Email: ltraining@lib.auth.gr