Don’t reinvent the wheel: resources to support the teaching of information literacy and academic skills across the curriculum.

Michelle SchneiderSkills@Library, University of Leeds

Outline for this session

Skills@Library pre 2010:

Leeds University Library 2010 Academic Skills Strategyhttp://library.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/AcademicSkillsStrategy.doc

Quick discussion points

1. What academic (including information literacy) skills do students in your institutions need to develop?

2. Are there skills they lack?

3. Do academics engage with academic /Information literacy skills development?

How can you help develop student skills?

All freely available to use or adapt as needed

Lecturer Webpages: examples of use

Demo and explore

Follow this link to explore the pages yourself:

http://library.leeds.ac.uk/skills-lecturers

Quick discussion points

1. Would you/have you considered making your teaching resources freely available?

2. Do you think this could raise your profile with academics, encouraging engagement?

3. Any other thoughts/comments?