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Universitetet i Agder arrangerte Fagreferentkonferansen 2012 som hadde et innholdsrikt og interessant program. Ulike aspekter ved bibliotekets tjenester ble belyst, fra undervisning av studenter og styrking av informasjonskompetanse, til tjeneste for forskere og forskningsmiljøer og samlingsutvikling med brukerstyrte innkjøp av…

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The shift in perception, from librarians as providers of information to librarians as educators in the effective use of information, requires the profession to become aware of differing approaches to the development of teaching and of the professional consciousness of…

A project at the University of Agder has studied the use of e-readers as a tool for academic study. E-readers (Kindle DX and iPad) were loaded with texts from required reading lists in five courses with 94 participating students. Initially…

One of Agder University Librarys goals is to support teaching and research at the University of Agder (UoA). To do so, the library should be involved in research projects and offer the right products at the right time. The spring…

Bill Johnston will review selected current thinking on the nature of learning environments in higher education and identify how this work can be applied to course (re)design and curriculum renewal in universities. He will outline his thinking on curriculum renewal…

The paper will source evidence about the skills that contribute to retention and success in undergraduate higher education: and the capacity to assess and remediate skill sets when learners commence HE with reference to the strategies that apply to information…

In this paper fundamental principles that might inform an approach to Information Literacy (IL) on the postgraduate level will be identified. Those are based on following premises: the aims of postgraduate/doctoral studies are different in comparison to earlier educational levels…

This paper examines IL from a policy and strategy perspective and reports the selected findings of the research project that was carried out within open and distance learning universities in Europe. The research problem for this study focused on the…