Courses in Information Literacy - Teachers
Would you like your students to learn how to search for academic literature, how to be critical when evaluating their finds, and how to refer to the texts correctly? The University Library can help you.
At the University Library, we offer courses in literature search, source criticism, reference management, and much more for both BA and MA students. Either we can visit your course as a part of your regular schedule, or we can offer your students extracurricular courses at the library.
We teach topics such as:
- Basic use of the library
- Literature search
- Reference managing
- Source criticism
- How to avoid plagiarism
We design each course according to the specific needs of each course/group of students, so depending on your preferences, we can incorporate elements of all of the topics mentioned above or just a few in your course.
Listed below are some examples of courses that we teach regularly.
Book a course as a teacher: Use this form to book a course.
Book courses
- Learn how to order physical as well as digital books and articles through soeg.kb.dk
- Learn how to use the subject guides with relevant handbooks and databases.
- Learn how to borrow books at the library and how to use the facilities the library offers.
- Learn about the different types of library materials, and how to use them.
- Learn how to find the right search words in order to find relevant literature for your paper.
- Learn different search strategies to enable you to create exact searches.
- Learn how to use your research question to create better searches.
- Learn how to search different academic databases.
- Learn how to perform a systematic search and how to document your search process.
- Learn how to evaluate a source’s academic credibility.
- Learn to perform lateral reading.
- Learn to perform the CRAAP test.
- Learn how to write references and bibliographies manually.
- Learn how to use the reference management tool Zotero to keep track of your references and your bibliography
- Learn how to avoid plagiarism.