Student's motivation

Dear colleagues,

I now post the fourth question from the conference in Reykjavik about Bologna related topics.

How do we motivate the students to consider information literacy as something important?

Group number 4 in Reykjavik answered like this:

"At master level let the student choose their own topics to use in the course in the library.
Tell them to take responsibility on their own learning. In few words, explain that "quick and
easy" is not the way to go for any scholar, show subject headings and thesauruses.
Every encounter with the students is a chance to teach (preach?) information literacy.
Give the music student a chance to control their own process in search strategies and finding
key words. Information literacy as a tool in a life long learning process. Make library catalogues more accessible. The librarian as a information specialist and in Europe at least, not a teacher."

Kirstine Folmann, University of Bergen Library


Any comments?
~Pia~