Institution:
The Aarhus School of
Business (ASB) Library
Aarhus
Address:
Handelshøjskolen i Århus, Biblioteket
(Library of the Aarhus School of Business)
Fuglesangs Allé 4,
8210 Århus V.
Phone 89 48 65 20
Fax 86 15 96 27
Contact person:
Karen Harbo, Development consultant
phone: +45 8948 6545 |
The Library of the Aarhus School of
Business (LASB)
is
a public research library
and at the same time
EU documentation centre.
The Library is one of the twelve large Danish research libraries that implement DEF
- Denmark's Electronic Research Library.
Main lines of the Library's policy
Liaison teams
based on the ‘librarian – teacher – student triangle’
have been
established between the library and faculties of the parent institution, which
are then responsible for actively identifying and meeting the information needs
of academic staff, researchers and students.
Courses
The Library offers
-
Courses
in information retrieval: scheduled
lessons in information retrieval during the Autumn term of the first
year of study.
Target group: first-year university students
Level: basic and advanced
-
Presentation of Databases, in order to strengthen
students' information competences: during the
Spring term different courses are offered where the central
databases of the Library are in focus, for instance business economics
databases, including company information, legal databases.
Target group: university students
Level: basic and advanced
-
Courses for External Users:
courses are offered for payment to external
users, for instance from other
educational establishments, enterprises, etc.; the
courses are targeted to meet the specific demand.
Target group:
external library users
Level: basic and advanced
Projects
and target
The Library has selected five target areas. They all support the contents
and objective of the ASB strategy 2006-09.
The five target areas are the following :
-
Horizontal
/ Vertical Presentation
-
Integration
between Library and Education
-
Pedagogic presentation of: instruction in the use of
printed and electronic information resources; search methods
(Personal Knowledge Management).
- Integration of library resources in the respective learning environments (Subject
portals, E-compendium, CampusNet).
- Tools that support the learning process (for instance, Reference
Management)
-
Quality Measurement and
Benchmarking of the Research
-
Digital Rights
-
Knowledge Capital /
Institutional Repository (IR)
An important DEFF and LASB ongoing project is
The
library as an active learning partner.
Keywords: training for university students - courses for library
users - information competences - information retrieval - use of information -
scientific information - information searching - information resources -
presentation of databases - use of scientific databases - search methods -
learning process - learning environments - library and education - students'
support - students' information literacy - library projects - library's teaching
role |
