We are excited to welcome Dr Samuel Kai Wah Chu, Head of Division of Information and Technology Studies and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Deputy Director for the Centre for Information Technology in Education in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Below are the details of his talk:
Date: Thursday, March 3rd 2016
Time: 11.00am – 12.00pm
Location: Chilcotin Room (IBLC 256)
“Effective library support/training for doctoral students”
Dr. Sam Chu has 22 years of experience working with doctoral students, for 12 years as an academic librarian and then for 10 years as a professor, successfully guiding students through their doctoral studies. In this talk, Dr. Chu will share with you his professional experience as a former librarian helping doctoral students, his substantial research on information literacy support/training for these students and his first-hand experience in guiding a number of doctoral students completing their studies with great results. His talk will be partly based the following publications:
Chu, S. & Law, N. (2005). Development of information search expertise: Research students’ knowledge on databases. Online Information Review, 29(6), 621–642.
Chu, S., & Law, N. (2007a). Development of information search expertise: Postgraduate students’ knowledge of search skills. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 7(3), 295–316.
Chu, S., & Law, N. (2007b). Development of information search expertise: Research students’ knowledge of source types. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 39(1), 27–40.
Chu, S., & Law, N. (2008). The development of information search expertise of research students. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 40(3), 165–177.
Theng, Y. L., Lee, E. A., Chu, S. K. W.., Lee, C. W. Y., Chiu, M. M. L., & Chan, R. C. H. (in press). Scaffolding in information search: Effects on less experienced searchers. Journal of Librarianship & Information Science.
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Refreshments will be served.
