Focus : Training at CY libraries, our trainings and news

More about CY libraries' trainings : 

• Our trainings aim at training and improving all of our users information skills. Information skills are the skills linked to searching and using information in order to answer a need or a question, For example, one of the goals is to be able to notice relevant information, analyse the results, use the information in order to refer to it in a suitable way. 
• Our training service is based on the RECIF (référentiel de compétences informationnelles) created by the ADBU (association française des directeurs et personnels de direction des bibliothèques universitaires et de la documentation). This service may propose new trainings on larger themes (AI, fake news, ecologic transition and reduced consumption) or specific tools (Zotero, data bases...). 
• Les formations ont vocation à desservir tous les publics : licence, master, doctorant, ou encore administratifs, enseignants, lycéens ou publics extérieurs. Ce sont des collègues formateurs, présents sur l’ensemble des sites, qui dispensent les formations aux usagers. Ils forment selon les besoins des enseignants ou à partir de séances-type.
• Our trainings are offered to every type of audience: bachelor degree students, masters students, PhD students or administrators; professors, high-schoolers or people outside higher education stystem. The trainers are librarians, present in every Cy Library. They train according to the professors' needs or from ready-to teach sessions. 

Our users can be trained during in person sessions or during online sessions. You can also make an appointment with a librarian. 

2025 Assessment :

• Number of trainers on CY network : 44
• Number of trained users in 2025 : 5 330 including 5 272 students  
• Number of training hours in 2025 : 849 (including 111h online)
• 1 AI Libguide and presentations on AI
• New trainings (courses on energy transition and AI at Saint-Germain : a new discovery game "Oscar is back to uni" at Neuville, Saint-Martin and Antony)

New autotraining section 

The library tutorials section was updated in order to replace the tutorial sub section. It is divided in three parts. 

• Documentary research 
• Zotero 
• Data bases

In the documentary research sub-section, you will find three tabs in which there are tutorials and articles in order to learn how to : 

• use the EDS search engine, 
• find and use the library's electronic ressources
• sharpen your documentary research strategy and obtain the most precise results ! 

In the Zotero sub-section, you will find tutorials in order to learn how to : 

• set up Zotero bibliographical managment software in order to link bibliographical references and edit automatically and rigorously your bibliographies and quotes according to the selected norm. 
• use zoterobib, who helps generating bibliographies and quotations according to a type of norm on any computer. 

 In the "Database" subsection, you will find tutorials on the most used databases to which CY libraries subscribed. 
These tutorials are regularly updated in order to answer your needs in the best way. You can find tutorials on : 

• databases on humanities and social sciences
• Business course complete 
• Press databases
• Law data bases 
• Science and techiniques databases 
• Statistics databases 

Catalog of training courses Section

The new catalog of training courses section describes the trainings offered to our users by our agents.  

Each CY library offers open trainings, or trainings integrated in the student's training program. Most of CY's first years students are trained to documentary research basics. Our trainings are destined to students from bachelor degree's to PhD's and tackle the following points depending on the CY libraries in which they are offered : 

• Discovery of the university library
• Documentary research library 
• Zotero, zotero bib, zotero online
• Use of databases to which CY University Libraries subscribed.