Outreach Program

The Outreach Program provides instructional support to community members in order to help them develop critical-thinking skills, create efficient search strategies, and to become information literate. The information literate person is able to:

• Determine the extent of information needed.
• Access the needed information effectively and efficiently.
• Evaluate information and its sources critically.
• Incorporate selected information into one's knowledge base.
• Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.
• Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information.
• Access and use information ethically and legally.

Services

Visit U of L to:

• Access 280+ databases which help you find magazine & scholarly journal articles on a topic.
• Use specialized research tools,which help our faculty, students,and community borrowers locate materials in our collections and around the world.
• With U of L Community Borrowers Card,you can: check out books, print, photocopy and use computers in the Reference area.

Outreach Librarian

For more information about the Outreach Program, please contact:

Fannie M.Cox
Outreach & Reference Librarian
2301 S Third St.
Ekstrom Library
Louisville, KY 40292
email: fmcox@louisville.edu
phone: (502) 852-2705