Undergraduate students
Introduction to Professional Engineering
The IPE course is a core compulsory unit for First Year engineers. The Library presents a lecture and provides a hands on session that teaches students how to develop competent information access and source evaluation skills accompanied by an understanding of when it is necessary and how to reference material.
Information Literacy Sessions
The Maths and Physical Sciences Library offer individual classes for all units. These are tailored to the specific requirements of unit coordinators and can be conducted in a variety of formats. They can range from a short presentation as part of a normal lecture, hands on library session, or a session in tutorials.
Intended outcomes for undergraduate students:
- be able to plan their research and create search strategies
- be aware how to locate bibliographic databases appropriate for their topic
- be able to identify how much information they need and in what format
- be able to critically assess primary and secondary sources available.
- be able to locate indexed references.
- aware of types of sources they should use to locate information
- be able to cite their references.
Contact the Librarians in the MPSL if you would like to include an information literacy skills component in any of your units.
Honours and Postgraduate students
Students are familiarized with a range of tools used by researchers in conducting a literature review, keeping up to date with research and following threads in research.
Intended outcomes for students:
- be aware of sources of information
- be able to use Current Contents and other current awareness sources
- be aware of the purpose of, and able to use, a citation index
- be able to evaluate gathered information and revise the initial query
- be aware of ongoing new developments in the area of information access
Endnote training
Students are introduced to Endnote software and learn how to create and maintain an EndNote library.
Students will:
- know how to add in references manually
- learn how to import entries from databases and catalogues
- be aware of the various citation styles and their use
- understand the basic functions and parts of EndNote
- know how to sort, display and edit the records in personal libraries
- know how to export data to Word documents
Sign up sessions
The Librarians in MPSL offer a number of sign up sessions through out the year including:
How to find journal articles
Harvard Referencing
APA Referencing
Alerting Services
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