User education

User education / user instruction
The teaching of information and literature seeking and the use of databases, libraries, subject literatures and scientific and scholarly information sources.

Often is user education very limited in scope and teaching resources. It may, for example be short instructions in a couple of hours in a library's OPAC or a few databases or reference sources.

More ambitious courses integrating information seeking with research methodology are rare. One important exception is a number of reports issued by Roskilde University Center in the 1970s (Bermann et al, 1977_a+b+c). Recently has the concept of information literacy helped strengthening the field.

Literature:

Bermann, T.; Lau, B.; Risager, K. & Wille, N. E. (1977a). Litteratursøgning og biblioteksbenyttelse. Kompendium. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetscenter.

Berman, T. et al. (Eds.). (1977b). Library User Instruction and the Teaching of Research Methodology. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetscenter.

Berman, T. et al. (Eds.). (1977c). Library user instruction in the framework of project studies. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitetscenter.

Glistrup, E. & Væring, K. (Eds.). (1984). Biblioteksorientering for alle. Ballerup: Bibliotekscentralen.

Haugsted, I,; Hjørland, B.; Lau, B.; Magnussen, C.; Nielsen, N. C. & Pedersen, J. (1975). Undervisning i litteratursøgning. Et debatoplæg. Betænkning afgivet af Forskningsbibliotekernes Målsætningsudvalgs underudvalg vedr. forskningsbibliotekernes didaktiske forpligtigelser og de studerendes biblioteksbetjening. København.

Kolding Nielsen, E. (1974). On the Teaching of Subject Bibliography in History. Libri, 24, 171-208.

Kuhlthau, C.C. (1987). An emerging theory of library instruction. School Library Media Quarterly, 16(1), 23-28.

Limberg, L. & Folkesson, L. (2006). Undervisning i informationssökning: slutrapport från projektet Informationssökning, didaktik och lärande (IDOL). [Teaching information seeking. Final report on the project Information seeking, didactics and learning (IDOL)] Borås: Valfrid. (Skrifter från Valfrid Nr. 31;. ISSN 1103-6990).

Lupton, M. (2004). The learning connection: information literacy and the student experience. Adelaide: Auslib Press.

Lorenzen, M. (2001). A Brief History of Library Instruction in the United States of America. Illinois Libraries. Available: http://www.libraryinstruction.com/lihistory.html