Service of the Month: Academic Skills
The Academic Skills Team in the Library support the information and academic research needs of University of Galway Undergraduate and Taught Master’s students. We are Siobhán, Jane, Gabi, Regina and Mike and we would like to introduce you to the services and resources that we provide. Our Service Supports Our team is responsible for delivering information literacy to the student body. One of the frameworks we draw upon to guide the delivery of our support is the CILIP Definition of Information Literacy: "Information literacy is the ability to think critically and make balanced judgements about any information we find and use. It empowers us as citizens to develop informed views and to engage fully with society” (CILIP 2018) We support the following broad learning outcomes: Finding, using and evaluating key information sources for students' academic work (e.g. books, journal articles, market reports, standards, theses, grey literature, websites) Identif...