Participate in a library information workshop session as a way to…
…understanding the assignment better and focusing time and effort to meet its deadline
…achieve higher quality results when using information
…avoid information overload
…develop efficient and effective methods of managing and manipulating data
…improved articulation of your information needs and questions
…learn how to apply consistent methods of bringing appropriate information together for purposeful applications
What?
People, especially students, are in different places at different times in their lives in terms of dealing with information. The following are a few questions developed to encourage you to consider what your assignment has to do with using information. While working with assignments, delivering the final product to your instructor is important but recognizing the process you follow to get to the end goal is also critical. A little awareness and effort turned toward improving your information handling skills and techniques along the way will develop your ability to think critically about problems and projects, become more efficient and proficient when gathering and using information and broadens your options when you attempt to bring meaning to raw data.
Why?
Currently we share a time and place in which knowledge is a commodity that can give or take the edge away from people in both their personal and professional lives. Throughout your college life, at home and in the workplace you will be asked to find information, use information, interpret information, analyze information, transfer information, and everything in between as part of other things you are expected or required to do. The library information instructors work with course instructors across the curriculum to design and deliver information related activities, events, projects and general assignments that relate to the curriculum and general education requirements for college course participants.
This may not be your first library workshop and you are not alone…
Information instruction and use is context dependent. The workshop is customized to your assignment so you may have been to a library workshop before but you've never been to this one.
If you have participated in library workshop sessions recently list the name of the class and indicate the semester you attended the workshop. The library, the assignment and the information seeker are all dynamic elements that change so please take a few minutes to answer the attached survey questions.
Previous library workshop attendees should indicate the title of the course and semester it your information activity session was delivered.
COURSE NAME: _____________________________
SEMESTER:
2002 Spring _________ Fall _________ Summer ________
2001 Spring _________ Fall _________ Summer ________
2000 Spring _________ Fall _________ Summer ________
1999 Spring _________ Fall _________ Summer ________
OTHER: _________________________________________
Survey questions to help guide the content
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