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As a graduate student, you need a systematic information literacy education ——Review of the "Thesis Opening" series lectures for postgraduates in the fall of 2019
  Time:2019-11-26 
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Information literacy is an essential skill for college students, postgraduate students and researchers to complete their studies, conduct scientific research, broaden their horizons, and carry out lifelong learning. It is an important guarantee for cultivating innovative consciousness, improving innovation ability and scientific research ability. " Thesis proposal and writing" is a comprehensive test for postgraduate information literacy. In view of the current situation of postgraduate information literacy education, the Library Information Literacy Teaching and Research Department combined the current educational environment and the "Double first-class" construction goal of Tongji University and proposed a new information literacy education content that runs through the whole process of postgraduates’ research. In the form of a series of lectures, began in October 2019, the library' launcehed postgraduate “Thesis Opening” service month. The lecture provided 10 special lectures on 8 key issues related to literature retrieval and utilization during postgraduate research, which were held at Siping Road Campus and Jiading Campus respectively, attracting attention and participation in lectures of 1293 person-times from 35 colleges or research institutes.
Data analysis and review is the best guide for future work. This article will comprehensively review the content of “Thesis Opening and Literature Retrieval and Utilization” series lectures from the lecture registration data, the content arrangement and lecture site.
1. Plan and content arrangement for series lectures
The series lectures in this semester are based on the experience of postgraduate information literacy education in the past year and continue to be jointly researched and planned with the academic department of the postgraduate union. The main content of the series of lectures proposed by the Library Information Literacy Teaching and Research Department is to study the needs of graduate students by the Academic Department of the postgraduate union and select the two most necessary topics as the main lecture report of “Fenglin Forum” and “Jiayuan Forum”. Other content was used as a follow-up series lectures in October, when the demand for the postgraduate thesis is concentrated. The specific arrangement of the content is shown in the chart below.

Order Lecture topic
Fenglin Forum
1 Literature Search and Utilization Based on the Opening of Thesis
2 How to use the English secondary literature database effectively to grasp the international value and development trend of selected topics
Jiayuan Forum
3 Literature Search and Utilization Based on the Opening of Thesis
4 How to use the English secondary literature database effectively to grasp the international value and development trend of selected topics
Series Lectures
5 How to use the Chinese database platform effectively to quickly evaluate the value of the topic
6 The value of patent documents in the opening of the thesis and scientific research innovation
7 Academic Integrity and Norms in Essay Writing
8 Excavation of global heat of research direction, interdisciplinary analysis and research topics
9 The application of document management software (EndNote and NoteExpress) and literature analysis software (CiteSpace and HistCite) in scientific research process
10 The function and application of core journal evaluation system and its corresponding database at home and abroad

The content of series lectures is arranged to pay attention to the systematization of the information literacy education for postgraduate research and the comprehensive analysis of key issues. It is hoped that through the series lectures, the postgraduate students will solve various problems in the literature retrieval and utilization in the scientific research process. The lecture team not only has senior teachers in the library information literacy teaching and research department, but also invited the library supervisor teaching leader, the library discipline and intellectual property service department patent analysis senior teacher and the Elsevier company literature analysis experts.
2. Registration data and interpretation of series lectures
This series of lectures was jointly planned and publicized by the postgraduate union and the library, especially the “Jiayuan Forum” and “Fenglin Forum”, which were intensively publicized by the academic departments of the two campus and libraries. Teachers and students of colleges and research institutes paid attention to it and actively registered. The applicants were mainly postgraduate students, and a small number of undergraduates and teachers, a total of 1,293. From the registration data, it is found that the information literacy education of postgraduate students is extensive, the key colleges are prominent, and the key grades are prominent. It provides an effective data support for postgraduate information literacy education. The registration data of the whole school is as follows:

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The registration distribution of Siping Road Campus and Jiading Campus are as follows:

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3. The review and feedback of series lectures’ sites
This series of lectures was opened as “Jiayuan Forum” and “Fenglin Forum”. The two lectures drawn the attention of the school Youth League because of the large number of applicants. In order to allow more students to have the opportunity to attend the lectures, the postgraduate union and library coordinate the relocation of the venue, from the 150-person lecture hall to the large-scale lecture hall for more than 300 people. From the scene, there were still full of seats, even existing some classmates sitting on the ground, and questions and feedbacks were enthusiastic.

The series of lectures provided a powerful verification and valuable experience for the development of postgraduate information literacy education. By analyzing the college distribution and number of students from the registration data, we can see the universality and urgency of postgraduates’ demand, and find that the lecture arrangement requires in-depth research so as to provide teachers and students with demanding content at the right time. In order to provide information literacy education for teachers and students better, the library information literacy teaching and research department will carry out in-depth research. Please continue to pay attention to the follow-up activities.
Special thanks to teachers, planning staffs and publicizing staffs for their hard work in the series lectures.

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