Teaching Matters: Increasing Library Visibility through Integrated Classroom Instruction

摘要

This paper addresses the need for academic librarians to teach and reach out toundergraduate engineering students in their own space — engineering classrooms. TheScience & Engineering Library team at the University of British Columbia (UBC)believes that teaching students the importance and relevance of using library resourcesin their first and second years of study will better prepare students to complete theirassignments. Each year the Science & Engineering Library team presents to 850 firstand second year students per term. In an investigation of our efforts, 20 moreadvanced, third and fourth year undergraduate engineering students were asked whatinformational tools and sources they used for their assignment in APSC 263 -Technology and Development: The Global Engineer. The results showed that 90% ofthe students in the study planned to use UBC library resources for their assignments.This positive result supports our belief that our commitment to providing extensivelibrary instruction is creating a greater awareness of engineering librarians and theresources the library has to offer.