Abstract
More than efficient retrieval and navigation strategies information literacy is the creativity to organize and shape one's own information process in a conscious and demand-oriented way. To reach diverse audiences and learning types a broad range of activities of libraries to promote information literacy is desirable - from complete curricula to single learning objects. The playful and explorative approach of the bilingual online tutorial DISCUS (Developing Information Skills & Competence for University Students) of the University Library of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) has its counterpart in the learning target of playing with databases - to explore them - as well as with search terms being selected to get the best out of database searches. Visualization as a didactic-artistic tool creates within the tutorial an enjoyable learning environment and supports cognition and orientation, it generates positive emotions and increases learning activities. DISCUS presents the content in various ways, offers changes of perspectives, and is fun. The (red) thread as leading metaphor can be grabbed at http://discus.tu-harburg.de.
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