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ANZIIL Perth Forum October 2004

Personal Service

delivering face to face information literacy

to ECU students in Singapore

Julia GrossEdith Cowan University

Faculty Librarian

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ECU Singapore Program

Faculty of Community Services, Education and

Social Sciences (CSESS)

•Two main faculty partners

• Advent Links

• Academy of Human Development

•Library Information Literacy faculty supported and funded

•Several faculty courses

• Counselling

• Childhood and Family Education

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Access to local library

collections in Singapore

•ECU partners have scant print collections

•Reliant on ECU for electronic collections

•No local librarian or library service

•No local university reciprocal

arrangements

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ECU students in

Singapore

•Bachelors, Masters

•Wide range of skill levels

•Language fluency

•English is 2nd language

•Adult learners

• IT literate

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Key issues for our

students in Singapore

•Unaware of ECU Library services

•Document Delivery

•External Library

•Unaware of ECU Library resources

•Print and electronic

•Authentication to library databases

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Course objectives

•Students

• can research a topic and locate information

sources

• display improved quality in written work

• avoid plagiarism

• become self sufficient

• feel less isolated

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Course delivery mode

• Demonstration

• Hands On

– Catalogue and

database

exercises

– Referencing

exercises

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Course content

•Research Process

• incl. referencing, avoiding plagiarism

•Library Services

• Document Delivery, External Library

•Library Resources

• Catalogue, databases

•Content evolving and adapting

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Course evaluation

Need more on

ReferencingNeed to learn

Blackboard

Quality of

assignments

improved

Needed this

sooner

Staff

Students

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How different is offshore

?

•Cultural and language issues

•Student learning styles

• Internationalisation of content

•Equity Imperative

•Planning and Logistics

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Planning and Logistics

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Changes 2001-2004

• Increasing reliance on electronic

resources

•More electronic content available

•More local content available

•More content requested by faculty

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AQUA audit of ECU

Singapore

http://www.anziil.org/events_meetings/

2004/events/perth/resources.htm