Successful Information Literacy Strategies

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Successful Information Literacy Strategies

• Kate Bunker Information Services Librarian
• Canberra Campus- Signadou

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Canberra Campus- Signadou

• Signadou one of six campuses that comprise ACU-
  National
• approximately 35 lecturers
• primary education, social work, theology,
  religious education
• approximately 600 students

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relationships and trust

• physical proximity
• common tea-room
• campus wide meetings Signadou spirit
• the wins and the losses travel quickly around the
  campus
• opportunities to build and extend relationships

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• example first year primary education students
• part of orientation day- library tour
• support tutorial- catalogue, databases, subject
  guides- week one
• majority of students do the unit God, faith and
  the search for meaning tutorial on first essay
  topic

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Theo 128 essay topic

• Without openness to a transcendent reality, and
  without the experience of nurture in a genuine
  community, people will have great difficulty
  developing a sense of personal identity and
  finding meaning in life. Present evidence for the
  validity of this position, and discuss the
  implications of this view from a spiritual and/or
  religious and/or theological perspective.
• Essay question for Theo 128 God, faith and the
  search for meaning. 2004.

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assume nothing

• dont assume you will be asked- be proactive
• new course, new unit, new idea
• ask how you- the IL worker- can fit into it all

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build on wins

• use the academics that use you- use them to
  spread the information literacy word
• new academics!
• the othersmay have to accept that cant win all
  the time

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be realistic

• remember training skills
• beware of putting too much in one session
• be careful and make sure you know what the
  academic wants then put in terms of information
  literacy standards
• realistic

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pick yourself up again

• support from your team
• other relationshipsACTUAL IL Roundtable, ACU IL
  committee.
• professional training and development
• look after yourself