In today’s society, you are faced with diverse information choices in your studies. Yet, accessing high-quality information, reliable information, or good resources does not come easily. In this process, you will need useful tools and a powerful set of skills.
Information skills guides
The information skills guides the Library offers form a cookbook that will help you acquire and improve information and academic skills. For instance:
- finding and accessing information;
- setting up a search;
- evaluating resources;
- making decisions in choosing resources that responds to one’s needs;
- saving, managing, and using references;
- ethically applying information to address a problem.
The goal is to facilitate you in the process of improving your:
- research and academic skills;
- self-directed learning;
- critical thinking;
- ethical attitude and behavior in using, creating, and evaluating information.
The skills you have acquired and developed can be used throughout your studies as well as following your studies in professional and personal settings to facilitate you in becoming life-long learners and creators of knowledge.
Brief e-modules
You can engage in self-directed learning using short e-modules grouped in the 10 information skills guides that help you with how to search, find and manage scholarly information and data in an efficient way. The e-modules combine text, exercises, and videos, which can be worked through separately and/or individually.
Overview guides and e-modules
For an overview of the guides and e-modules, please see below and discover a variety of topics! Enlarge the overview by opening it as a PDF document.
