LibGuides: Support & Training: Home

Training sessions are an easy way to learn about and explore the wide range of resources and services that are available to support your studies or teaching.

Examples of library training include:

Library inductions & tours
Information sources
Using the online library
Copyright and plagiarism
Citing and referencing
Using Database & eResources
Literature searching and reviews
Reference management
APCs and getting published

Training courses can be delivered using a variety of teaching methods and formats including:

One-to-one training
Group training
Demonstrations
Presentations
Online tutorials

We offer a timetable of scheduled training sessions.

You can arrange a session by contacting Library@atu.ie or come along to a drop-in session.

Online Tutorials

Checkout ATU library online tutorials and podcasts.

Learning & Innovation Skills Module

ATU offers a “Learning & Innovation Skills” module (formerly Learning 2 Learn, L2L) as a mandatory module in the first year of its undergraduate programmes. The module was designed to help students develop the learning skills needed to meet the demands of third-level study and to ease their transition from second to third level.

The library covers the following modules:

Information Sources
Primary &secondary sources, academic books, scholarly journals, peer review, comparison of Google and Library databases, Dewey and how to locate a book on the shelves.

Using the Online library
Searching the library collections using Search + Find, explaining how facets work, interbranch request forms online, brief outline of databases and evaluating resources.