Supporting the Teaching of Information Literacy with First Year Bsc Nursing Students: The Case for a Printed Workbook

ABSTRACT

Information literacy (IL) is increasingly considered to be an important life skill and there are a number of challenges that librarians face in implementing an effective IL program. This article examines the experience of library staff at Birmingham City University (BCU) and how they developed a printed workbook to be embedded within sessions attached to a first year Nursing degree academic skills module. Previous approaches to IL input with Nursing students will be discussed. The changes that were made and the impact of these changes on students, academic and library staff are then considered. Since the implementation of the workbook, feedback from students and staff has been encouraging concerning its purpose and value. Possible future developments are then suggested.

KEYWORDS:

• Information literacy
• teaching and learning
• collaboration
• printed workbook
• Nursing students
• library

Declaration of interest

We confirm that this work is original and has not been published elsewhere, nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.