New library guides

We have just created a new tutorial called Library skills for TAFE education, which is listed with our other tutorials. Like our other education tutorials these cover the kind of skills students learn in their information skills classes.

We also have a new subject guide for Teacher education. This comes from a suggestion from Rachel to incorporate some sections within a guide focused on teacher education generally. The guide also features resources for the different discipline areas, a page for the new B.Ed at Brunswick and a list of e-books that feature on various course reading lists.

Two Libguide tutorials

I have used our new Libguides software to develop a couple of teacher education subject guides. I have also used these to develop two online tutorials.

The most recent tutorial to be developed is Library Skills for Foundation Studies. We have been teaching quite a lot of foundation studies classes over the last couple of weeks. There are 14 groups in the first intake which means 28 hours of library research skills classes (phew); that doesn’t even count the library tours and the catalogue exercise that each group gets. Anyway, the online tutorial has proven invaluable for giving students somewhere to go to reinforce the things they learn face-to-face in class. This tutorial also gives both the teachers and the students an overview of what the sessions involve.

The other is a more general Library Research Skills for Education Students tutorial and is based on the different aspects of information literacy: the skills and knowledge around analysing a research need, being aware of resources available, forming search expressions, searching and modifying searches in key resources, accessing and managing information.

I’m a fan of libguides because they utilise a number of different applications and allow quick updating and changing of information. If you have any suggestions or want them linked into your online course let me know.