I tider med store prisstigninger, lave budsjetter og nye prosesser for produksjon, anskaffelse og tilgang til faglitteratur må bibliotekene spørre seg om deres samlingspolitikk og akkvisisjonsmetoder er tilpasset de endrede rammebetingelsene i dag og hvilke kriterier som skal ligge til…

Hvordan utvikles forskningsstøtte lokalt, sett i lys av nye nasjonale og internasjonale rammebetingelser? Spørsmålet belyses gjennom et innledende innlegg med påfølgende debatt mellom representanter fra tre institusjoner. I et innledende innlegg belyses universitets- og høyskolebibliotekenes nye rammebetingelser og muligheter i…

Experiences from creating an online course for Public Health students This paper aims to present the development of an online course in which teachers and librarians cooperated closely to create a syllabus that aims to allow students to fulfill the…

In recent years, there has been a demand to include doctoral students and researchers in the curriculum for information literacy. Not only information search, but also the expertise of the librarians in scientific publishing, bibliometric analysis is demanded. As a…

The University Library of Stavanger has made three interactive library courses. Two of the courses are in Norwegian, Vitenskapelige artikler i sykepleiefaget (Scientific articles in nursing), and Kildebruk og litteratursøk (Information literacy: How to search and cite) and one in…

According to the Swedish higher education act, higher education should provide courses and programmes based on scholarship - but what does this mean in practice? In this project the library and the Centre for higher education at Malmö University collaborate…

The University of Westminster is located in London and is celebrating 175 years as an educational institution this year. A key part of the University's vision is in "building the next generation of highly employable global citizens to shape the…

Scientific writing is an important aspect of the student's education. Writing requires the student to give reference sources in a proper manner in accordance with a certain style. Experience has found that the process to deal with different styles requires…

The online tutorial Søk & Skriv (Search and Write) was launched March 2007. The site has been under continuous development, from being an online tutorial in mainly information literacy connected with academic writing, to covering broader aspects such as intellectual…

Ærede deltagere, kjære alle sammen. Velkommen til Stavanger og til Fagreferentkonferansen 2010. Bibliotekverdenen,  i alt sitt vesen og omfang, er gjenstand for endringer og utvikling av en fundamental karakter som vi vel knapt har opplevd maken til. I alle fall…