1. Library Training and Services on an Individual Basis
Dana Mazancová

2. Presentation Outline Faculty of Social Studies Orientweek
Courses on Informacion fluency for BA and MA students
Activities and services for PhD students
Library services supporting science and research at the faculty

3. Faculty of Social Studies
Established in 1998
Seven departments
13 BA, 12 MA, 9 PhD programmes
Three research institutes
Nearly 3,500 students

4. First Experience 1998-2007 - small group of students
- Library tour´s for new users
- Information lessons - e-resources
- small group of students
- voluntary basis
- library computer´s room
questionnaire survey on
e-resouces at FSS
innovative model of lessons
on a voluntary basis
planning the new courses

5. Courses on Information Fluency: Basic Facts
IF integrated into the long-term plan of MU
Financing from European Social Fund (ESF)
- Innovation of Bachelor´s Degree Programs for Better
Employability - for BA students
- Internalization, Innovation and Practice: Social Science
Education for 21st centrury - for MA students
Start in 2012
Duration of the projects - 3 year
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6. Library training: Current Situation
Orientweek
Courses on IF for BA
and MA students
Services and training
for Ph.D. students
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7. Orientweek Group trainings especially for first-year students
Each september
Two parts - theoretical lecture and guided library
tour

8. Implementation of Courses
Inclusion of all couses
provided by Central library
into the regular degree
programs offered by the
faculty
"Compulsory optional status"
Credit evaluation

9. Structure of Courses Number of courses
- 9 courses for undergraduate students
- 3 courses for graduate students
Content of courses
- 1 month
- 4x lectures
- 2x theoretical, 2x practical
- 90 minutes
Lecturers

10. Teacher´s Notebook

11. Sample Course Description
Basics of IF for Students of the Department of International Relations and European Studies
for undergraduate students
course capacity 90 students
four groups for practical lessons

12. Sample Course Description: Lectures
The First Lecture - Theoretical
- introduction to the course
- basic terminology
- introduction to the methodology of writing essays and
final thesis
- overview of useful e-resources
The Second Lecture - Practical
- takes place in computer study rooms
- focus on specific search processes
- practical task as homework

13. Sample Course Description: Lectures
The Third Lecture - Theoretical
- citation methodology
- citation style preferred by individual departmens
- citing various types of printed and electr. documents
- citation managers
The Fourth Lecture - Practical
- work with submitted task
- focus on additional tools (EDS, Full Text Finder etc.)
- available e-books collections

14. Course Requirements Compulsory attendance at all lectures
Submitting practical task
Passing the final test at the end of the semestr
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15. Sample of Final Test

18. Positive Feedback from Student Survey
"The subject offers exactly what we need..."
"This is truly one of a few courses which are really useful…"
"…It was very nice to have all the presentations the teachers used at hand with all the necessary links…"

19. PhD Students Autumn semestr Spring semestr Anytime
- invitation letter
- meeting "Coffee in the
library"
Spring semestr
- workshops
Anytime
- one-to-one or small
group face to face or
consultations

20. PhD Students 2 Workshops - Basic orientation in WoS
- spring semestr 2017
- Basic orientation in WoS
- Predatory Publishers and
Open Access

21. Support of Science and Research I.
Habilitation and professorship procedure at MU
help with preparation part 5 (List of scholarly or artistic works)
and part 6 (List of responses
to works listed under
scholarly or artistic works or
under pedagogical works)
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22. Support of Science and Research II.
Study of feasibility
preparating data from
WoS and Scopus (number
of publications, number of
responses, h-index)
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23. Near Future Courses modification in new academic year 2017-18
Intense focus on PhD students
Creation of internal rules and guidelines for
habilitation and professorship procedure at FSS
Implementation of researcher unique identifiers
Discussion about new library services with faculty
management

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