For anyone who wants to succeed academically and benefit from extracurricular activities in a professional setting, developing library and information skills, knowledge, and behavior is essential.

Recruiters today are seeking candidates who are familiar with and can adapt to the characteristics of the information age. In reality, a graduate who has learned to learn will be a much more desirable candidate. A highly analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving individual with strong information literacy can be viewed as a flexible, capable, and valuable employee with a lot to offer!

For these reasons, the Library is offering the UA community 3 training sessions in order to provide them with the steps needed to produce high-quality academic work and fully benefit from a research-based education. These sessions are designed to teach participants the methods and tools necessary to conduct successful scientific research, including the importance of correctly citing sources and avoiding plagiarism.

Audience: UA community
Dates: February 21 and 27, and March 2, 2023
Location: Hadat–Baabda Campus, Building A, Library
Speaker: Ms. Reine Nehme, Librarian

Session 1 | Research Preparation: Distinguish Document Types and Develop Sources

Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Time: 2:30–3:30 PM

Session Objectives

• Recognize the variations between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
• Know the differences between popular and scholarly sources
• Identify the various types of source materials (such as books, journal articles, websites, and newspapers)
• Understand the different types of journal resources (studies, book reviews, editorials, scholarly, etc.)

Session 2 | Information Search: Koha and EDB

Date: Monday, February 27, 2023
Time: 2:30–3:30 PM

Session Objective

• Establish a search strategy to save time by taking the information’s relevance into consideration

Session 3 | Information Analysis and Plagiarism Prevention

Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
Time: 2:30–3:30 PM

Session Objectives

• Analyze the information relevant to the requirements of the work to be done
• Evaluate the information’s quality of content

Register now for the sessions you would be interested to take part in, and for more information, call +961 5 927000 ext. 1401.

Make your research valuable!