LAS Training and Instruction Librarian’s Group - It’s not just about tours and talks

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IT’S NOT JUST ABOUTTOURS AND TALKS:

Business information literacy instructional programmes in NTU

Pecha Kucha Session - IL Seminar - SMU Akbar Hakim - Business Library - NTU

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• This presentation strips down the details of business information literacy instruction provided by NTU Business Library for students studying at the Nanyang Business School and the Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre.

• It will look at core and specialised content offered in the various programmes for the different levels of study and how they have evolved over time

• Snapshots of core content will be shown.

• The presentation will also give a brief on participation rate and the reach of these programmes as well as assessment studies done in the past and future studies to follow.

• It will conclude with questions on depth, design and delivery of these instructional programmes to best suit the business as well as non-business student learners of today in the university.


04/09/2023 Pecha Kucha Session - IL Seminar - SMU Akbar Hakim - Business Library - NTU

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NTU Library instructional programmes- Awareness- Subject- Tools- Research

Target:Students attend at least one library instructional programme over the course of their study.


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Targeted ProgrammesNanyang Business School

- BAcc, BBus, Double degree programmes, Joint programmes- MBA – full-time, part-time, exchange, non-graduating- EMBA- MMH- MSc- PhD

Nanyang Technopreneurship Centre- MSc TIP (English & Chinese)- Minor in Entrepreneurship


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Instructional programmes over the years– for NBS undergraduates

- ARP Literature Review Seminar – 2002 – a day-long seminar- Advanced Research Seminar (Literature Review) – 2005 – half-day seminar

- Academic Research Seminar -2010 onwards – three-hour workshop

Resource Specific WorkshopsFinancial Databases

- Bloomberg- Thomson One Banker Analytics- Datastream Advance- OSIRIS- WRDS

Basic EndNote

In the Beginning…Subject Tutorials

- Business Academic Literature- Citation Searching and Analysis- Company Information and Financials- Country, Industry and Marketing Data- Economic Statistics- Case Studies


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• Academic Writing with EndNote• Gathering Business Intelligence

Company Information Industry Information Country Information And Researching Entrepreneurship

CONSOLIDATEDSubject Tutorials•Researching Business Academic Literature and Case Studies•Researching Company Information and Financials•Researching Country, Industry and Legal Information•Scholarly Publishing with EndNote•Searching Financial Databases:

Bloomberg – conducted @ Bloomberg L.P. (limited to 27 participants)OSIRISThomson One Banker – conducted @ Thomson Reuters (limited to 15 participants)Datastream – conducted @ Thomson Reuters (limited to 15 participants)

REVISEDSubject Tutorials•Researching Business Academic Literature•Researching and Analysing Citations•Researching Company Information and Financials•Researching Country, Industry, Economics and Marketing Data•Researching Legal Information•Researching and Writing Case Studies

PRESENTLY…• Academic Research Seminar

Doing Your Literature Review


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Instructional programmes over the years- for NBS graduate students- Library briefing – MBA, EMBA, MMH, MSc

- Introduction to business information resources- Introduction to business information & resources –

current- Doing Library Research Workshop – PhD

- Your research @ NTU Library- Doing Your Research @ NTU Library - current

- Academic Integrity: Know what it takes!- Academic Integrity and Academic Writing with EndNote -

current


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CORE CONTENT


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CORE CONTENT


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SPECIALISED CONTENT


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Participationrate


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Reach of Programmes• Every graduate programme cohort each academic year• Second and Final Year students• Students attending specific courses where library instruction

is included, for example,- Retail Marketing

- Minor in Entrepreneurship• First year students?• Non-business students?

Measure of Success• Feedback• Student success• Use of library resources• Research consultation• Target achieved


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Past study

Wong-Yip, Chin Choo Jacqueline, & Akbar Hakim Harun (2003, October). Assessing learning outcomes of an undergraduate information literacy programme. Paper presented at 12th Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians, Brunei Darussalam.


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Past study


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Future study-Correlation between student success and instructional programmes- Increase in use of library resources- Impact and learning outcomes


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DEPTH- Surface level- Deep dive- In-between?- Content – always about quality

and relevance


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DESIGN- One-off- Series- Interactivity- Problem-based- Team-based

- Lecture- Tutorial- Workshop- Seminar- A mix?


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DELIVERY- Face-to-face- Online- Blended- Recorded video- Language


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Other Matters For Consideration- Time- Collaboration – faculty, programme office, student clubs- Advocacy - reaching out - Niche programme for niche audience- Attendance – participation rate- Skill set and competency of librarians- Balance between instructing and sharing- Expectation – students, faculty, librarian- Understanding of library jargon- Feedback- Going beyond the tried and tested – out of the box thinking


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Use of Social Media- Share- Comment- Post- Tweet- View- Like- Pin

Creating an Immersive Library Learning Experience- On-site- Off-site- Online- Student Mobility

– anytime, anywhere, anyplace, anydevice, anyplatform

The challenge now perhaps? THANK YOU!

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LAS Training and Instruction Librarian’s Group - It’s not just about tours and talks