This is the second part of my writeup of the Librarians as Teachers event I attended this week. If you haven’t already read it you might want to catch up with what happened in the morning session which I covered in my first post. Kicking off the afternoon which was promised to be more active in order to keep us awake after lunch was Geoff Walton from Staffordshire University. He started by telling us that we could learn lessons about information literacy by reading Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science. I’ve not read it but we’ve got a copy so I think [...]
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Librarians as Teachers (morning session)
Today I attended the Librarians as Teachers event which was run jointly by CILIP’s CDG West Midlands division and UC&R West Midlands section. The purpose of the event was to look at the status and role of librarians delivering teaching and practical ways librarians can develop their teaching skills and gain recognition for the teaching they do. There were many people tweeting the event and much of what follows in my reflection of the event can be found in the archive of #lat10 tweets. The day started with Antony Brewerton of the University of Warwick giving us a walking tour [...]
CILIP New Professionals' Conference
It’s over a week since I attended the New Professionals’ conference jointly run by CILIP’s Career Development Group and the Diversity Group. Waiting a week to blog was a good plan because Laura has done the hard work blogging on the whole conference in 3 excellent posts over on Organising Chaos. I’m not going to try and match that so here are just a few of my observations from the day. First up was Katie Hill talking about the consumer generation. The consumer generation knows what it wants and how to get it as well as what standards and services [...]
