All Liaison Librarians at Holmesglen are involved in booking, preparing and delivering Information Literacy sessions for students. These sessions include orientation tours, research skills, catalogue searching, database searching and referencing. The sessions you are assigned may not necessarily be related to your specific liaison area. There is a team approach to the assigning of sessions so you may need to collaborate on the development of a session for multiple groups.

As part of the liaison role you are expected to actively promote information literacy sessions , along with other resources and services for teaching staff and students, to teachers in your liaison area. 

Resources 

        Q drive 

• There is a folder for Information Literacy on the Q drive Q:\Info Comms\Information Literacy
• The folder is divided into sub folders which are designed to provide session outlines for specific subject areas as well as resources for general sessions and articles related to information literacy
• Database help sheets in publisher format can be found in the Q:\Info Comms\Publications\Database guides
• Lifebelts (to help when you have a session and are unfamiliar with a particular aspect of what is required) can be found at Q:\Info Comms\Information Literacy\Lifebelts
• Booking forms can be found at Q\Info Comms\Forms\Information Services\Information Literacy
• Past training sessions for databases can be found at Q:\Info Comms\Electronic Resources\Administration\Training
• You will find the brochure that we make available to teaching staff at Q:\Info Comms\Publications\User guides\InformationLiteracyGuide

        Staff

• Chadstone, Waverley and Moorabbin Branches have a designated Information Literacy Librarian. They should be able to help you with any concerns about sessions at your Branch. The Branch Manager and the Information Services Librarian at Building 5 work together on Information Literacy issues.
• If you wish to watch other staff members delivering sessions so that you can gain some insight into different presentation skills, speak to the coordinator of Information Literacy at your Branch.

General

• You are encouraged to take a proactive role in the promotion of our information literacy services to teachers in your liaison areas. At times you may receive emails alerting you to new staff in your Liaison area. You should make contact with these new staff and offer to give them an orientation tour and show them our resources. In some cases they may want training on specific databases relevant to their teaching area.
• Some strategies for promoting Information Literacy services may include - targeting teaching staff via mass e-mails, attendance at their staff meetings and taking opportunities during desk shifts to promote these services to teachers.
• You will be assigned responsibility for one specific electronic database. You will be expected to develop and maintain a lifebelt and a current database guide for your database and to train others as necessary. The database guide allocation list is at Q:Info Comms\ Electronic Resources\ Administration\ Liaison Databases.
• You should become familiar with Know it All, our online study skills package. It is available on campus only and linked from the Learning Commons web page