Apr 5, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
The European High Level Expert Group on Scientific data (2010) has formulated the challenges for a scientific infrastructure to be reached by 2030: “Our vision is a scientific e-infrastructure that supports seamless access, use, re-use, and trust of data. In a sense,...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
If you had the opportunity to build a science library from scratch for a new generation of researchers and students, what would it look like and how would it operate? We will show you the vision and reality of the new King Abdullah University of Science and...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
New generation users are adept at locating scholarly articles, thanks to information literacy sessions and tools like Google Scholar, but are they able to interpret and use the information they find? This question has been percolating in the literature and in practice...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
Nowadays, traditional lecture type of library instruction may work only to few audiences. Students exhibit various learning styles and along with this, instruction librarians are also faced with users of new generations. Users who are capable of multitasking,...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Learning & Users
This paper examines the ways in which Thai undergraduate students in Chulalongkorn University find, evaluate, manage, and apply the needed information for doing their course-related assignments and everyday life research. The information literacy behavior studied...
Apr 4, 2012 | 4/6/2012 (1330-1505), Technology & New Media
According to the OECD there are nearly four million tertiary students enrolled in a course outside their country of citizenship. In 2010 there were 335 273 international students enrolled in higher education in Australia. To support these students during their study,...
