Activities at the TUB HH - Library of the Hamburg University of Technology
website: http://www.tub.tu-harburg.de/27.html
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Typology:  academic library initiative - courses for university students - course for secondary schools -  courses for primary schools - courses for the public/citizens - tutorials

Institution:
Hamburg University of Technology
University Library - TUB HH
Hamburg

Address:
Hamburg University of Technology
University Library - TUB HH
Denickestr. 22
21073 Hamburg (Harburg)
Shipping Address:
21071 Hamburg
Phone: 040 / 4 28 78 - 28 45
Fax: 040 / 4 28 78 - 22 48

Contact person:
Thomas Hapke (library instruction, information literacy)
Phone: 40 42878 3365

The University Library (TUB HH) of the Hamburg University of Technology has been offering its services on campus at the heart of the TUHH since 1991. As an independent information and communication centre it is an important landmark of the Technical University in that it makes available information on the current status of science and technology.

It primarily serves as a central institution for research, teaching and studying at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. As the technical central library for the region of Hamburg it is also available to customers outside the TUHH.
TUB provides many information services. Among them, there are:

• Information facilities in the Internet
• Training courses and information events
• Internet retrieval areas.
  

The library staff ensure that media, information and literature are made available and procured as effectively and as efficiently as possible.

Subject librarians of the scientific service department are available for specialist information retrieval and for mediating specialized information literacy.

Library instruction enhanced with hints of information literacy

·  Guided library tours
·  Services for schools
·  An useful presentation: Orientation in the information jungle - finding, getting and handling information

Service offers in information literacy

·  “One-shot” courses during the lectures or in the department
·  Self-directed learning: tutorials and online guides

Projects
·  DISCUS – Mediating information literacy

Keywords: library instruction – information literacy – training for university students – training for school classes – information searching – information retrieval strategies – independent online searching – use of scientific databases – self-directed learning – online guides – IL tutorials – engineering information