ИНФОТЕКА - Часопис за информатику и библиотекарство

Vol. 6, No. 1/2, March 2005

Mirjana Golubović
Library of the Faculty of Forestry

USER EDUCATION IN THE LIBRARY OF THE FACULTY OF FORESTRY

UDK: 02:930.25:061/069:004.738.5
Remark: Paper presented on the 10th Professional Meeting "Education of library and information professionals and users ", organized by the Serbian Academic Library Association and held in the National Library of Serbia, Belgrade, 25 October, 2004
Keywords: user education, infoirmation resources, academic libraries, Faculty of Forestry
Abstract: The information resources in the Library of the Faculty of Forestry are reviewed as well as the activities planned in order to inform the students on the Library work and bibliographic information providing. The study is not reduced only to use of manuals and professors expect that students personally seek and find literature needed. Many students with similar information requests (when students ask for “....something from the field of...”) have inspired the librarians to make more efficient support to them: 1. via group presentation of the same explications and information; and 2. by dedicating more time to the users with specific subjects and information resources. The content of the introductory lecture that was presented as preliminary on a class is sketched. In order to systematically improve the student’s awareness, the Library and the Faculty Management have agreed that some short courses should be organized in the reading room at the beginning of each school year.