Building Relevance within the Classroom

How do we build relevance? by facilitating use (not complicating it) by making things count

Easy versus Complicated

Easy versus Complicated

First Language Spoken by Students Studying Japanese at UBC（ 2008/09)

Facilitating UseIn the undergraduate classroom find out about course content and identify relevant titles that can be

used by students for their projects make sure that examples used in classroom instruction match the

current topic being taught embedding content within the online classroom

Facilitating UseTargeted Instruction teach databases that are immediately beneficial to students within

the course ensure that students majoring in the discipline will be given

instruction on foundational databases / e-resources

Facilitating UseHow this means relevance a. Bearing on or connected with the matter in hand; closely relating

to the subject or point at issue; pertinent to a specified thing. b. Without construction: appropriate or applicable in the (esp.

current) context or circumstances; having social, political, etc., relevance

relevant, adj.Oxford English Dictionary. Third edition, December

2009; online version December 2011.

Making it Count

Making an impact on course outcomes including library assignments within the classroom making reference transactions mandatory

Advocating importance to colleagues and administrators raising awareness of how multilingual education requires more,

not less explaining how extra time should be spent on graduate student users

working within multicultural and multilingual frameworks

Thank you!

Shirin EshghiJapanese Language Librarianshirin.eshghi@ubc.ca