101. Deutscher Bibliothekartag in Hamburg 2012
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Since Bologna, the international profile of a university constitutes an important criterion in the accreditation procedures, driving libraries to react to the growing number of international students. While being regarded as an individual target group by US-American and British university libraries, German academic libraries pay only scant attention to this audience -- apart from occasional introductory sessions, the community has not yet launched an overall concept so far. Moreover, discussions about diversity management and intercultural library services focus on public libraries only. The poster addresses a conceptual framework for an information literacy instruction program for international students at German academic libraries. Based on students' characteristics, their home library experiences, citation practices and learning cultures, the poster proposes training contents and teaching methods. It lists best practices and points out the importance of raising awareness of diversity and interculturalism as well as enhancing various skills among library staff.