Service offers in information literacy
website: http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/hapke/infolit/offers.htm

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Typology:  academic library initiative - courses for university students - 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

Service offers in information literacy
The library provides info-lectures or tutorials in the library or in the department. The students are introduced to current information sources as well as effective strategies in retrieval in electronic databases.
Target groups: the offers are open to all, but especially useful for graduates and postgraduates

“One-shot” courses during the lectures or in the department

Self-directed learning: tutorials and online guides:
·  DISCUS tutorial - the thread through the jungle of information (developed by the TUHH library)
·  The world of engineering information – 10 points to survive  (in English)
·  Information Literacy - a key skill!  (in German and in English)
   Main contents:
   Service offers of the TUHH-Library
   Why Information Literacy?
   Searching information systematically - one step in developing information literacy
   Dimensions of information literacy
   Hints for practice
   Concepts - Issues and links
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Access to Information system “Into Info” (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), possible from 1 October 2001, from TUHH intranet. 


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

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