The library's support to your students
When students come to us, we try to show and instruct (help to self-help) rather than just give the right answer. However, we are always happy to help, so do not hesitate to send your students to us.
The Library in Moodle and Subject Guides
The Library in Moodle is the library's digital resource repository, placed in the familiar Moodle environment. It is equally available to campus students and distance education students!
In the Library in Moodle you can find everything from how you borrow books to how to recognise scholarly articles, reference management, basic Word and Excel processing, information retrieval strategies and much more. Here you will also find our subject guides, Moodle pages with database recommendations and other resources to facilitate information retrieval in your subject.
We encourage you as a teacher to familiarize yourself with The Library in Moodle and the subject guide for your subject so that you know when you can refer your students there. There is both a Swedish and an English version of The Library in Moodle.
Here you will find The Library in Moodle
Here you will find Biblioteket i Moodle
Is there something missing in The Library in Moodle, or do you have any other comments about the resources? Contact us at biblioteket@miun.se
The chat
The library's chat service is open during office hours and is a very popular service, as it gives you direct contact with the library, no matter where you are. We answer between 1500 and 2000 chats every year, and the questions vary from simple questions regarding book loans to complicated information retrieval questions. You can find the chat on the library webpage.
The Academic Resource Centre
During the Academic Resource Centre's drop-in hours, students can meet a language tutor or a librarian without having to make an appointment, to receive support in information retrieval, reference management or academic writing, no matter where in the writing process they are. Read more about the Academic Resource Centre.
Book a librarian
As a student, you have the opportunity to book an hour with a librarian for an information retrieval session, where we talk about keywords, databases, reference management and so on. This service is mostly used by C- and D-students when writing their independent projects. Book a librarian.
Writing tutors
Our writing tutors can on campus or via distance support students in academic writing of texts in Swedish, either through the Academic Resource Centre or through booked appointments. Read more about the writing tutors.
Reading impairment
Students with a reading impairment can get help from the library to acquire audiobooks. The students download the audiobooks themselves from MTM (The Swedish Agency for Accessible Media). Audiobooks already in the database Legimus can be downloaded immediately, but audiobooks not available have to be ordered via the library. Note that it takes 6-12 weeks for MTM to produce an audiobook. So, these students are much helped if you as teachers make their course literature list available in plenty of time before the course start. Read more about the services for reading-impaired students here.
Course literature
Course literature has a loan period of 10 days. The library buys 3-4 copies of the mandatory titles. We read the course literature lists from the web and adhere to the set dates for completion of course plans. If you make any changes to your course literature list after these dates you need to let the library know so we can update our collection.