The EDGE Award is administrated by the Career Development Centre and is designed to provide official University recognition for the extra activities you undertake at Ulster outside of your degree programme.
To complete the EDGE Award you must choose and complete 4 approved activities from at least 2 out of the 4 categories available during the course of your degree.
The EDGE Award can prove valuable in demonstrating the breadth of your extra-curricular skills and experiences to potential employers. To find out more about the overall EDGE Award, contact the Employability and Careers Service or login to the Employability Portal.
Because Digital and Information Literacy skills are important in today's society to help us find and manage information and to help us avoid fake news, the Library is offering the Developing Lifelong Literacy Skills activity on the EDGE programme. For more information contact one our your subject librarians or check out the details below.
For more information about the EDGE Award contact the EDGE team in the Careers Service on your campus or visit the Edge webpage where you can register for EDGE and view details of the activities available. Once you have completed your EDGE Award registration, you can then choose the Library EDGE activity Developing Lifelong Literacy Skills as one of your options and contact one of our subject librarians for more information.
What do I need to do for the Library EDGE activity?
In this activity, you will have the opportunity to evaluate your current information literacy skills, reflect on your development of these skills through attendance at workshops and the production of evidence showing critical evaluation of the research methodology adopted on a current topic of interest.
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To complete the activity, you will need to: IDENTIFY - Identify key concepts on the chosen topic SELECT - Select suitable keywords/subject terms for each concept (eg. mind mapping; brainstorming etc.) CONSIDER - Identify appropriate information sources (primary and secondary sources) PLAN - Develop a suitable search strategy (application of Boolean operators; phrase searching; truncation/wildcard searching; proximity searching etc.) EVALUATE - Select useful references (based on quality, relevancy, bias; currency etc.) REFINE - Review the search strategy (refining as necessary) MANAGE - Organise and manage potentially useful references (eg. manual referencing or RefWorks) PRESENT - Communicate and present main findings effectively and appropriately
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You can present your evidence as an evidence-based portfolio or presentation. A key aspect of your activity is reflection - your Library mentor will support you with this and other tasks.
