UNB Libraries’ teaching mission is to foster within the UNB community the lifelong ability to think critically and act ethically when engaging with information as users and as creators of knowledge.
Our teaching strategy: UNB Libraries Scholarly and Digital Literacy
CARL Digital Literacy Framework
What We Teach
Librarians help students develop academic research capabilities, including how knowledge and information sources are created and shared in their disciplines.
Here are some examples of what we teach:
- Developing and refining research topics for essays/assignments
- Strategies for locating and evaluating scholarly sources and information
- Using and synthesizing information based on project needs
- Academic integrity
- Negotiating LLM/AI tools and resources
- Working with primary sources and special collections
- Analyzing and visualizing data
- Organizing sources and research using a citation management program like Zotero and Mendeley
- And many other topics, including Data/GIS, Research Data Management, knowledge synthesis, etc.
How We Teach
Collaborate with UNB librarians in the following ways to set students up for success:
- Library tours: building orientation, general library overview
- Classroom instruction: in-person, online, one shot, curriculum integrated, discipline-specific, specialized topics
- Workshops: one-shot, series, in-person, online
- Graduate Student Booster Sessions
- Systematic Review Essentials
- Other topics by request
- Asynchronous
- Object-based learning: working with print and digital special collections
- Assignment consult