Continuing on our history of art installations in the Dorothy H. Hoover Library, we are making a call for library site interventions for the 2016/17 academic year.
Information comes in many different shapes and forms; at the OCAD U Library, we know that art and design can be a powerful way to convey ideas, so we open our library space to site-interventions and other forms of installations. By using art to explore themes concerning libraries and access to information, we feel that these site-interventions can become a powerful way to conceptually explore issues in information literacy using studio-based learning methodologies.
ARE YOU INFORMATION LITERATE?
A Perceptions of Libraries study on research habits among university-level students found that:
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83% of students start all research with a search engine AND 7% start with Wikipedia. |
Despite these research habits, in comparison to search engines, students believe that libraries are more trustworthy! |
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So why don’t we begin searches—especially for academic research purposes—using a library collection when we know that they offer access to more authoritative information? HELP STUDENTS LEARN HOW to change their strategies and begin accessing the trustworthy and accurate information they know that they need! Book an information literacy session for your courses. Contact Daniel Payne (dpayne@ocadu.ca) to arrange an in-class library information session for your classes; seminars can be formatted for specific course assignments or based on a range of research themes such as:
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