At Makerere University, the library is moving away from the traditional way of doing thing to a modern library. We have improved facilities thanks to our development partners.
Facilities available:
-Discussion rooms on the Ground floor of the New Library Building.
-Multimedia center-number of PCs has greatly increased.
-Electronic databases which are accessed at the campus.
-Seminar rooms-make presentations
-Silence still observed in the other areas of the library
-Library users still consult librarians about the OPAC and Electronic resources.
-Lots of books b’se lecturers always insist on scholarly publications for students. For each coursework atleast 8 references are required.
-Individual visits to the library
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You had a comment about the quality of information in the discussion in the class today. I think it is important to learn the students to know the difference beetween a reference from a peer-reviem journal – and a blog on the net. If the teachers demand the syudents to discuss and evaluate their sources, I think that is the best. One way is to do as you say you do in Makere: Demand at least 8 refernces pr coursework. Do the student themselves find references?
Lars
The students are given reading lists by lecturers. Then they have to find more references