ANZIIL Perth Forum
October 2004
Personal Service
delivering face to face information literacy
to ECU students in Singapore
Julia Gross
Edith Cowan University
Faculty Librarian 1

ECU Singapore Program
Faculty of Community Services, Education and
Social Sciences (CSESS)
• Two main faculty partners
• Advent Links
• Academy of Human Development
• Library Information Literacy faculty
supported and funded
• Several faculty courses
• Counselling
• Childhood and Family Education 2

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Access to local library
collections in Singapore
• ECU partners have scant print collections
• Reliant on ECU for electronic collections
• No local librarian or library service
• No local university reciprocal
arrangements
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ECU students in
Singapore
• Bachelors, Masters
• Wide range of skill levels
• Language fluency
•English is 2nd language
• Adult learners
• IT literate
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Key issues for our
students in Singapore
• Unaware of ECU Library services
•Document Delivery
•External Library
• Unaware of ECU Library resources
•Print and electronic
• Authentication to library databases
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Course objectives
• Students
• can research a topic and locate information
sources
• display improved quality in written work
• avoid plagiarism
• become self sufficient
• feel less isolated 8

Course delivery mode
• Demonstration
• Hands On
– Catalogue and
database
exercises
– Referencing
exercises
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Course content
• Research Process
• incl. referencing, avoiding plagiarism
• Library Services
• Document Delivery, External Library
• Library Resources
• Catalogue, databases
• Content evolving and adapting 10

Course evaluation
Need more on
Referencing
Need to learn
Needed this Blackboard
sooner
Students
Quality of
Staff assignments
improved 11

How different is offshore
?
• Cultural and language issues
• Student learning styles
• Internationalisation of content
• Equity Imperative
• Planning and Logistics
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Planning and Logistics
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Changes 2001-2004
• Increasing reliance on electronic
resources
• More electronic content available
• More local content available
• More content requested by faculty
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AQUA audit of ECU
Singapore
http://www.anziil.org/events_meetings/
2004/events/perth/resources.htm
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