PechaKucha presentation presented by Akbar Hakim Bin Haji Harun (Head & Senior Assistant Director, Business Library, Nanyang Technological University) at Information Literacy Seminar in Li Ka Shing Library, SMU on July 20, 2012

1. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT
TOURS AND TALKS:
Business information literacy
instructional programmes in NTU
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2. • 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.
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3. 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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4. Targeted Programmes
Nanyang 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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5. 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
In the Beginning…
Subject Tutorials Resource Specific Workshops
- Business Academic Literature Financial Databases
- Citation Searching and Analysis - Bloomberg
- Company Information and Financials - Thomson One Banker Analytics
- Country, Industry and Marketing Data - Datastream Advance
- Economic Statistics - OSIRIS
- Case Studies - WRDS
Basic EndNote
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6. REVISED CONSOLIDATED
Subject Tutorials Subject Tutorials
•Researching Business Academic Literature •Researching Business Academic Literature and
•Researching and Analysing Citations Case Studies
•Researching Company Information and •Researching Company Information and
Financials Financials
•Researching Country, Industry, Economics and •Researching Country, Industry and Legal
Marketing Data Information
•Researching Legal Information •Scholarly Publishing with EndNote
•Researching and Writing Case Studies •Searching Financial Databases:
Bloomberg – conducted @ Bloomberg
PRESENTLY… L.P. (limited to 27 participants)
• Academic Research Seminar OSIRIS
Doing Your Literature Review Thomson One Banker – conducted @
• Academic Writing with EndNote Thomson Reuters (limited to 15
participants)
• Gathering Business Intelligence
Datastream – conducted @ Thomson
Company Information Reuters (limited to 15 participants)
Industry Information
Country Information
And Researching Entrepreneurship
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7. 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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8. CORE CONTENT
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9. CORE CONTENT
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10. SPECIALISED CONTENT
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11. Participation
rate
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12. 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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13. 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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14. Past study
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15. Future study
-Correlation between student success
and instructional programmes
- Increase in use of library resources
- Impact and learning outcomes
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16. DEPTH
- Surface level
- Deep dive
- In-between?
- Content – always about quality
and relevance
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17. DESIGN
- One-off - Lecture
- Series - Tutorial
- Workshop
- Interactivity
- Seminar
- Problem-based - A mix?
- Team-based
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18. DELIVERY
- Face-to-face
- Online
- Blended
- Recorded video
- Language
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19. 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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20. The challenge now perhaps? THANK YOU!
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
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