German information literacy project

The Library at the University of Konstanz (Germany) is carrying out a project on information literacy for graduates, department staff, university teachers, postdocs etc. (i.e. after the undergraduate stage) They would like to hear from you, either if you happen to know someone who might be interested in collaboration or has any other information on projects concerning their area of interest. They are interested in similar ongoing projects, mainly for sharing experiences and evaluating them for possible adaptation.

This DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation) funded project on information literacy took up its work in January. It is aimed at the training and instruction of teaching personnel and advanced students (graduates). The project goals are to explore und invent new possibilities of training specific target groups and to evaluate existing initiatives. These existing projects will be checked for possible modification, adaptation and costumisation for the German and (more generally) european university libraries. They wish to establish international links. More information at http://www.ub.uni-konstanz.de/ik/ (small amount of information in English, most - including some materials e.g. outline of a class - in German only) or email bernd.schmid-ruhe@uni-konstanz.de

Photo by S. Webber: Tree in Weston Park, Autumn 2005.