Library skills training

In addition to answering your enquiries, library staff also provides library skills training lessons. The library skills training is foremost aimed at the Turku University of Applied Sciences students and built into the curricula of the different study programmes.

The subjects covered during the training will cover e.g. Library Services as a part of learning Internet as a source of information Information sources of a specialist Databases as sources of information Finnish and foreign electronic resources Rules and regulation in using the library and the information sources

The objective of the training is that after the training the student is able to

• recognize the most important information resources of her or his field of study (eg library catalogues, databases and electronic journals)
• find information effectively and systematically from different information sources and
• evaluate information and its sources critically.

The skills are a part of information literacy needed throughout your lifetime.