Our Ph.D. participants: testing a new course on library use and information retrieval.

This EUNITE-course (initiated by the Helsinki University of Technology) is meant as a test-project in order to create such a course especially for the users of the Campus Library Arenberg. As a test-group we chose to start with a limited group of Ph.D. students from the faculty of applied sciences.

Our aim is to acquaint you with the most important scientific information sources within your field, to help you select and search efficiently both printed as well as electronic information and make you aware of the information evaluation methods. The course is divided into three parts.

Start the course by going through the material. In every part there is something to read and some excercises that you need to prepare. The last part involves an excercise where you are expected to search for literature about a topic in your field.

The course tutor.

During the 3 different parts of the course you will frequently be confronted with "the course tutor". In our test-course this term covers all the cluster librarians or information-specialists [Please follow the link: Our Organization > Contact & Staff > Clusters], together with our campus librarian and the coördinator of the e-sources.

Mailing-list and other tools.

For all your questions or keeping in touch with each other, we have created a special mailing-list:
EUNITE-request@LISTSERV.CC.KULEUVEN.AC.BE . In this way we, as library staff, can find out how we can avoid problems in our final version of the course.

To give you the opportunity to get a first impression of the course, we organize an introductory session on Friday the 5th of March at 2 p.m. in our Library Multimedia Room (first floor, next to cluster 6).

An important remark: if you do your search off-campus, remember that most databases and electronic journals have been acquired with licence agreement for the K.U.Leuven and cannot be used e.g. from the IP-address of your working place. The use of the electronic campus library is possible through KOTNET.

To work through the course does not necessarily require a visit to the physical library. But you are welcome to do so! There are workstations at the Campus Library reserved for users where you may work on your assignments. The information specialist on duty is also prepared to help you on matters regarding this course.

Feedback.

At the end of part 3, you have to settle scores !! Please fill out our feedback form.

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