Developing innovative students
The Academy's Information and Research Centre assists students to become highly proficient in information research and to develop information literacy knowledge and skills which are essential for successful study and continual life long learning. Electronic and print resources are carefully selected to provide students with relevant, current and curriculum tailored information.
The Academy Virtual Library includes links to databases and online libraries and is a gateway to global links and networks. The Virtual Library also provides a collaborative space to share and interact with the Academy community and external networks.
The Academy partnership with QUT Library gives our students “Associate Borrower’ access to Library resources and services. Such close proximity to QUT Library ensures our students have excellent support with particular emphasis on the Creative Industries resources.
The Centre for the Development of Creative Writing is an Academy Information and Research Centre initiative which will foster student reading and writing as an enrichment activity.
QUT library partnership
A partnership formed with QUT Library will enable Academy students to access university level resources onsite at QUT Library both during the day and on weekends.
Linda Langford, a doctoral candidate in Information Studies at Charles Sturt University argues that we need to agree on the central kernel of information literacy - lifelong learning - as a societal ideal. "It matters not that our views of information literacy are different as long as we have some agreement that the concept is tied to encouraging the learner to continue to be inquisitive, and to challenge viewpoints; to be savvy users of information". (Langford, 2002)
In support of this understanding of the importance of our students' information retrieval skills, the IRC is committed to empowering students to achieve information literacy on the path to becoming independent and interdependent learners. This focus on information literacy mirrors the learning process. The active finding, manipulation, evaluation, interpretation, construction and communication of information is how students learn, enabling them to become lifelong learners and informed decision makers.
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