User Education
Almost all academic libraries carry out some form of user education; that is, they attempt some instruction for their users on the use of the library. Although user education may be a drain on resources, there is little point in providing a wide range of books, journals and bibliographical tools if students are unable to access them. Here, we are providing some user education processes and presentations that are being used in the academic libraries.
Assistance can, of course, be obtained from the librarian at the time of need but, with librarian/student ratios generally declining, this may not always be practicable. Also, students are often reluctant to approach a librarian. User education should help to make students more independent in the library and, hopefully, lead to an improvement in their work. Interdisciplinary courses also involve the student in a greater and more varied amount of library research.We include library orientation slides prepared by college librarians at the time of library orientation to faculty and students. This page contains General library orientation, Nlist, Koha, Dspace, RFID systems, Google services and mendeley.
Library Orientation
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Library Orientation is a programme conducted at the beginning of the academic year in the college libraries.
Created by Tony Cherian, Peet Memorial Training College
Mendeley
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Mendeley is a reference management and research companion tool produced by Elsevier.
Presentation Created by Vineetha Davis, St. Aloysius College, Elthuruth, Thrissur.
Reading week- Kerala, India
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Reading week is observed in college libraries in Kerala to commemorate P.N. Panikar, The father of Library Movement in Kerala .
Created by Sr.Haritha, Mount Carmel Training College, Kottayam.
Mendeley
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Mendeley is a reference management and research companion tool produced by Elsevier.
Presentation Created by Tony Cherian, College