Services
Request a BiblioLab
A BiblioLab is a laboratory classroom designed to support your course. Students will find resources, tools and guidance aimed at learning about a specific topic of a more instrumental or technical nature. There are no assessable activities and students do not have to submit any work. Instead, the BiblioLab provides a space for developing practical and cross-disciplinary knowledge that can be linked to your course material.
The laboratory classroom is staffed by Library experts who are available to answer questions via the standard communication channels.
How it works?
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Validate
Confirm with your programme director that you can include a BiblioLab in your course.
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Request
Fill in the form to request a BiblioLab. We'll contact you within a maximum of two working days, excluding non-teaching periods and UOC holidays.
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Link
Link the BiblioLab to your course.
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Assessing your students
If you're wondering if you can assess the knowledge acquired by students in a BiblioLab, the answer is yes. If you wish, the Library can provide you with a series of questions that can be included in a continuous assessment activity in order to assess whether students have understood the BiblioLab content correctly.
More information
Learn how to find information with the seminars and content available on the Library's training page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What BiblioLabs are available?
The Library offers five BiblioLabs, covering different topics:
- BiblioLab – Find and use academic information in five steps
This BiblioLab offers tips on the basic questions that arise when starting research and preparing a final project: What am I looking for? Where should I look? How do I do it? What do I do with what I find?
- BiblioLab – Understand reference managers
In this BiblioLab, the Library team helps you understand what reference managers are and what they can do for you.
- BiblioLab – Make the most of the Library
This BiblioLab provides tips on how to get the most out of the Library's content and services.
- BiblioLab – Find specialized health information
In this BiblioLab, the Library team offers advice on answering basic questions when starting to search for specialized health information: What am I looking for? How and where do I search? How do I do it? What do I do with what I find?
- BiblioLab – Learn to cite
This BiblioLab offers tips on citing and avoiding plagiarism, and explains the citation styles used at the UOC.
How do I link a BiblioLab to my course?
The following document provides step-by-step instructions: How to associate the Library's BiblioLabs with classrooms.
How can I access the content of a BiblioLab?
You can view the different BiblioLabs in the Canvas search tool by searching for the term "bibliolab".
When can I request a BiblioLab?
You can request a BiblioLab at any time. However, if you request it by February, it will be available for the first semester. If you request it by September, it will be ready for the second semester.
Can I assess what students have learned from a BiblioLab?
Yes, some coordinating professors have asked to be able to assess what their students have learned from BiblioLabs. To meet this need, we have designed a continuous assessment activity for each BiblioLab with a series of closed questions and an answer key for you.
The questions are structured from more "simple" to more "complex". You don't have to choose all the questions. As teaching staff, you can select those that best suit your course and the workload you decide to assign to learning from the BiblioLab.
Under no circumstances is it mandatory to use this continuous assessment activity; we simply provide it in case you want to take advantage of some of the questions for your teaching.