Bridging the Gap

between School and

University

How Würzburg University Library supports

Information Literacy in Secondary Schools

• basic parameters: city of Würzburg, schools and pupils in Würzburg, Würzburg University Library

• our information literacy workshops: content, aims, figures, evaluation

• the libraries additional offers for pupils:pupil consultation hour, homepage

• work in progress: subject-specific self-learning material, information literacy for teachers

Outline

Active Users of the Library

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source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg

• 11 grammar schools in Würzburg

• 48 grammar schools around Würzburg

• 19 „Fachoberschulen“ and „Berufsoberschulen“ in and around Würzburg

Cooperating Schools

source: www.maps.google.de

• be about 20 pages in length and completed within one year

• follow a citation style

„Child Poverty in Würzburg“

„Blood Pressure and Physical Effort“

„Anxiety in Art – on the Basis of four Artists“

„The Partnership between the Wine Villages Sommerach and Dizy“

„Acceleration Sensors: Structure and Functionality“

The Pupils first Scientific Thesis should

• consists of one main library and about 70 departmental libraries

• holds about 3,4 million books, substantial media items and over 8.000 current periodicals

• is financed by the State of Bavaria and as such, has the designation as a regional library of Franconia

• pupils can use the library without fees

Würzburg University Library

• did start in 2001

• have two principles: „learning by doing“, „keep it simple“

• are held by 2 librarians

• last 90 minutes

• are not subject specific

Our Information Literacy Sessions

• that they are very welcome at Würzburg University Library

• to use the library on their own – „help for self-help“

• searching the resources of the library

• finding their way around in the library

Goals: What Pupils should learn

• search the catalogue for books and journals

• search the catalogue for a topic

• search a database for articles

• library orientation

Goals: Finding Books and Articles

• basic introduction (Cephalonian Method)

„Where are the books?“„What does the the library offer?“„When I need help, I…?“

• pupils get cards with the questions and they read them out to the group

librarians answer (PowerPoint)

Method I: Question-Answer Play

• searching for material

• pupils get exercises

Find books about „Computer Viruses“ Search the database IBZ for articles about ring tones for mobile phones

• they should try to solve the tasks on their own – librarians are looking around and helping

Method II: Pupils Work

• summary of the results, debriefing by the librarians

• with PowerPoint-slides

• further tips for writing the thesis

• time for questions

Method III: Presentation

• tour through the entrance hall, textbook collection and reading rooms

• pupils find the books and journals they have searched in the catalogue before

Method IV: Library Tour

• the library has two computer-equipped training-rooms

• number of colleagues: 15 librarians

• standardized concept

• sometimes workshops also for big groups

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• continuing evaluation

• by questionnaire (1 page)

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What did you like most?

What did bother you most?

library tour

nice and

capable

librarians

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explanations

too much

information

work with

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stuffy air

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examples

• launched in 2008

• special section tailored for pupils` needs and interests

• information about registration, our resources, search strategies…

• language is simple and even loose

• access to self-study material: e-tutorial (catalogue), information sheets

Homepage for Pupils

• started 06.08.2009 – in summer vacations

• for pupils writing their thesis

• every week for 2 hours

• additional to the consultation at the reference desk

• first week: 61 pupils; second week: 62 pupils

Pupil Consultation Hour

• certificate by two Bavarian ministries

• granted to libraries for outstanding cooperation with schools

• aims at encouraging libraries to strengthen cooperation

• 2009: 57 Bavarian libraries got it (4academic libraries)

Gütesiegel: Libraries – Partners of

Schools

• substantial changes in the cooperation schools –libraries at the moment

• „G8“: eight years grammar school

• scientific work and thesis are weighted even stronger

• search for information is component of the curriculum

• ministry suggests cooperation with libraries

Cooperation Libraries – Schools, „G8“

• subject librarians are preparing slides for each school subject

• they are based on our introductory workshops

• focus on the specific resources of a subject

Subject-specific self-learning

PowerPoints

• requests for workshops by teachers for themselves

• in cooperation with the „Teacher Training and Education Center“ at the University of Würzburg

• we want to develop a further training for teachers in information literacy

Information Literacy for Teachers

Viola Hämmer

University Library of WürzburgAm Hubland97074 Würzburgphone: +49/931/31-85909viola.haemmer@bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de

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