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PROMOTING ONLINE DATABASES INFORMATION

LITERACY EDUCATION FOR POST-GRADUATE

STUDENTS OF MAE FAH LUANG UNIVERSITY

Yanitha Rajchakom

IFLA Workshop

16 Nov.-11 Dec. 2009

Victoria University of Wellington

New Zealand

CONTENTS

Background

Objectives

Outputs

Outcomes

Teaching aids

How to teach

Activities

Example

MAE FAH LUANG UNIVERSITY

MAE FAH LUANG UNIVERSITY

Located Chiang Rai, Thailand

Established on 1998

Using English as a medium for teaching

Both Thai and international students (countries of

GMS, Southeast Asia, Korea etc.)

Offers degree programs of study in 10 schools

Approximately 10,000 students in 2009

(undergraduate + post-graduate)

VISION

is a higher-education institution striving for high quality at

international standards.

excels in various academic areas, creating qualified graduates

and human resources for the country and the region.

is a source of research with the capability of applying that

knowledge to benefit the society and industrial/business sectors

through cooperation with related agencies.

retains its national identity through education and development

of the national arts and culture.

SCHOOL

School of Agro-Industry

School of Cosmetic Science

School of Health Science

School of Information Technology

School of Law

School of Liberal Arts

School of Management

School of Nursing

School of Science

School of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine

(Only Master’s degree program and Doctoral program)

MASTER’S DEGREE AND DOCTORAL PROGRAM

18 Master's Degree Programs

8 Doctoral Programs

LEARNING RESOURCES AND EDUCATIONAL

MEDIA CENTER

LIBRARY’S VISION

Being as the excellent center in knowledge and services

with information technology and human driven as well

as with high standard of services are our commitments

in order to serve the university and community.

RESPONSIBILITIES

To serve and support the university’ functions in

teaching, learning, researching, and providing the

eLearning system service. In charge of being the unit

of University archives and to support the community’s

lifelong learning.

ONLINE DATABASES

Subscribed by MFU and some are subscribed by

Office of the Higher Education Commission and Thai

University consortium

General Online Databases

H.W. Wilson

ScienceDirect

Academic Search Elite

ProQuest Digital Dissertation

Springerlink (E-Journal)

ONLINE DATABASES

Specifications Online Databases

ACM Digital Library

ACS, Annual Reviews E-Journal

CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Dermatology e-journal

Education Research Complete

Environment Complete

IEEE/IEL Electronic Library Online

International Financial Statistics Online

ISI Web of Science

ONLINE DATABASES

E-Book

Computer Science (Elsevier E-Books)

ebrary E-Books

NetLibrary E-Book

Nursing Resoures Center

Springerlink - E-Book

LIBRARY’S PROBLEMS

Don’t know how to search and evaluate information

Don’t know information sources

Using online database at least

Doesn’t has information literacy course syllabus

Over-reliant on search engines such as Google

“Promoting Online Databases Information Literacy

Education for Post-graduate Students of

Mae Fah Luang University”

OBJECTIVES

To introduce, explain and help post-graduate

students to know and understand information sources

To teach and help post-graduate students to identify,

search, evaluate, and use online databases effectively

To teach doing an annotated

bibliography/referencing

OUTPUTS

Post-graduate students :-

know and understand information sources

can identify, search, evaluate, and use online

databases effectively

can do bibliography/referencing correctly

OUTCOMES

Understand information sources

Recognize how to identify, search, evaluate, and use

online databases effectively

Using searching strategies such as Boolean (AND,

OR, NOT), Truncation symbols and wildcards (* $ ! ?

(…) ) and “….” (quotation mark)

know how to do bibliography/referencing

Obtain information correctly

TEACHING AIDS

Brochures, Pamphlets, CD-Rom,

Website

Demonstration and Training for both

librarians and students

Orientation

Teaching and advising by one-to-one,

group-to-group

Library tour

HOW TO TEACH

Finding information sources

giving information giving information (website, Brochures,

Pamphlets)

selecting appropriate information sources selecting appropriate information sources

(type of online databases)

location information location information

HOW TO TEACH

Indentify information need

type of online databases type of online databases (general or specific

online databases, E-book or E-journal or thesis

and dissertation)

identify concept and focus questionidentify concept and focus question

identify topic identify topic (keywords, synonyms, related

terms, subject heading)

HOW TO TEACH

Searching online databases

basic search / advanced search..etc.

using Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)

using truncation symbols and wildcards (*

$ ? ! (….)) or quotation mark (“….”)

printing, save/download, e-mail

saving for citing

HOW TO TEACH

Evaluating information

up-to-date information / source credible

usefulness

authority

accuracy

objectively/point of view /bias

Scope/coverage

audience (ranking, comment)

HOW TO TEACH

Using online databases

plagiarism

citing sources

copyright

HOW TO TEACH

Doing bibliography/referencing

APA

MFU style (adapted from APA)

using Endnote

ACTIVITIES FOR LIBRARIAN

Online Databases Information Literacy Education

Program Training online databases

Objective To introduce and training librarian to understand online databases for teaching and explaining to students

For librarian All librarian in MFU library

timeframes 1.30 hours (14.00-15.30 pm)

period Every Thursday

Location Training room, MFU library

Key speaker

Reference librarian, e-mail: [email protected] Tel. 0-5391-6310

Participant 8 librarian

ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS


Program Introduction Library and e-Resources

Objective To introduce about library and e-Resources

For students

Post-graduate students

timeframes 30 minutes (09.00-09.30 am)

period Every Monday


Key speaker


Participant 3-20 students



Program General online databases searching (Program 1)

Objective To introduce and teach using general online database searching such as H.W. Wilson, ProQuest Digital Dissertation and Academic Search Elite

For students


timeframes 1 hour (10.00-11.00 am)

period Every Tuesday


Key speaker





Program General online databases searching (Program 2)

Objective To introduce and teach using general online database searching such as ScienceDirect and SpringerLink (E-Journal)

For students


timeframes 1 minutes (10.45-11.45 am)

period Every Tuesday


Key speaker





Program Science and Technology online databases searching (Program 1)

Objective To introduce and teach using science and technology online database searching such as Annual Reviews E-Journal, ACM Digital Library, IEEE/IEL Electronic Library Online

For students



period Every Wednesday


Key speaker





Program Science and Technology online databases searching (Program 2)

Objective To introduce and teach using science and technology online database searching such as ISI WEB Of Science, ACS and Environment Complete

For students



period Every Wednesday


Key speaker





Program Health science online databases searching

Objective To introduce and teach using health science online database searching such as CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Dermatology e-Journals

For students





Key speaker





Program Social science and Humanities online databases searching

Objective To introduce and teach using social science and humanities online database searching such as Education Research Complete and International Financial Statistics Online

For students





Key speaker





Program e-Books online databases searching

Objective To introduce and teach using e-Books online database searching such as ebrary E-Books, NetLibrary E-Books, SpringerLink - E-Books, Computer Science (Elsevier E-Books) and Nursing Resoures Center

For students



period Every Friday


Key speaker





Program Bibliography/reference format and Endnote

Objective To introduce and teach doing bibliography/reference format and Endnote

For students



period Every Monday


Key speaker



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