Best Practise presentation by Annamari Ikonen and Kaisu Sallasmaa presented at the European Conference on Information Literacy, Tallinn, October 2015.

1. Librarians and English teachers
join forces in information literacy training
for better learning results
Annamari Ikonen and Kaisu Sallasmaa
European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL 2015)
Tallinn, Estonia 19-22 October 2015

2. Metropolia in brief
 A multidisciplinary university of applied sciences, the
largest in Finland
 Operating out of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa
 16,500 students
 2,370 Bachelor’s and 290 Master’s graduates in 2014
 Staff 1,080
 Four fields of study:
 Culture
 Business
 Health Care and Social Services
 Technology
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3.  Workshops for 3rd year technology students.
 Aim: to find quality sources for a report.
Joint librarian-teacher workshops
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4. Hands-on workshop in two phases
Phase 1:
KEYWORDS
Librarian:
▪ The importance of keywords
and how to choose them.
Students:
▪ Create a concept map to
generate keywords.
English teacher:
▪ Helps the students with the
vocabulary.
Phase 2:
DATABASES & SEARCHING
Librarian:
▪ Introduces the most suitable
databases for the research.
▪ Guides students to use databases.
Students:
▪ Find sources for the report.
English teacher:
▪ Helps the students with the
vocabulary.
▪ Helps to evaluate credibility of
sources.
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5. What have we achieved?
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6. Librarians and English teachers
– what do we have in common?
▪ Similar education backgrounds
-> easy to communicate.
▪ IL training session & English classes:
both separate from professional studies.
▪ Professional interests:
▪ Enhancing the quality of theses.
▪ Teaching critical evaluation skills.
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7. Impact of the workshops

8. How did we measure impact?
▪ Four workshops Jan-Feb 2015
▪ Two questionnaires, before and after the workshop
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13. What the students said?
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14. Conclusion

15. Final thoughts
What we learned from the survey
▪ Workshop focus should be kept on keywords & source material
evaluation.
▪ Electronic resources and remote access need more promotion.
What kind of impact have the workshops had?
▪ They provide students an opportunity to gain better research
skills prior to thesis writing.
▪ Workshops have become an important part of IL training for
technology students.
What we’ll do next
▪ Plan online course material for the use of English teachers.
▪ Provide training on e-resources for new English teachers.
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16. THANK YOU!
▪ metropolia.fi/en/services/library/
▪ libguides.metropolia.fi/ > Library Training Services