1. IL in the University of Kuopio Jarmo Saarti Library Director

2. From contact teaching to distant teaching : Kuopio University’s experiences compulsory Information Retrieval and Library Skills course for all students from 1972 challenges: how to motivate students and allow them more freedom in choosing the right time for IL studies need to create web-courses > TieDot-project 2001-2006 (7 universities/15 discipline based courses In Kuopio we have at the present web-courses for 10 disciplines contact teaching – pros and cons Web teaching - pros and cons fixed scheduling difficulties in continuity non-individual difficulties in motivation freedom of choice (time and place) individual (tutoring) easier to integrate to one’s own studies time consuming (teacher’s)

3. Projects with Faculty of Pharmacy 1 the aim has been to integrate the IL teaching to the faculty’s own courses first project: Pharmacology on the Internet results: we managed to teach to the students the importance of using scientific subject databases instead of Google Pharmacology on the Internet - a Web-CT course teaching information literacy for pharmacy students in the University of Kuopio. (Together with Ewen MacDonald.) BEE-j 1(1), 2003. Can be accessed from http://bio.ltsn.ac.uk/journal/vol1/beej-1- 8.htm. Evaluation of a web-based course teaching information literacy to third year pharmacy students in the University of Kuopio, Finland. (Together with Ewen MacDonald.) Pharmacy Education 5(1), 2005. Can be accessed via http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1080 /15602210400028473

4. Projects with Faculty of Pharmacy 2. second project – Literati Club results: we managed to teach to the students the importance of reading critically peer reviewed journals and not to believe in results presented in them blindly Learning from Other's Mistakes - One Approach to teaching Information Literacy. (Together with Ewen MacDonald.) Liber 17(2), 2007. Can be accessed via: http://liber.library.uu.nl/

5. Projects with Faculty of Pharmacy 3. third project – music as a tool for teaching ethics results: we managed to teach to the students ethical questions in pharmacy by using music (blues songs) Beta-blocker blues: pharmacology with a blues beat. (Together with Ewen MacDonald.) Medical Education 40(11), 2006. Can be accessed via: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365- 2929.2006.02585.x. songs are available from:http://www.oppi.uku.fi/opk/video/ujbb/

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