Last week I attended, and spoke at, an exchange of experience seminar on Information Skills for Undergraduates organised by and for library staff at the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. Below is my summary of the event. First to speak was Hazel Rothera, Senior Subject Librarian for Education at Oxford Brookes. Her talk was on the development of a virtual tour and online induction for Harcourt Hill Library. The focus was on producing online content with little or no knowledge of web design. Of particular interest to me was the shift towards an online induction. One project I [...]
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Library inductions online
On Thursday I had my first experience of presenting an online induction to library services. This post is a review of the experience. The session was set up by the Executive MBA (EMBA) programme office at the business school. In previous years the EMBAs had done their induction face to face like everyone else. This would be as part of an induction weekend at the start of their first module (they attend week long modules roughly every 6 weeks). The feeling however was that this didn’t prepare them well enough for that first module. They arrived with too many questions [...]
Information literacy learning objects
Yesterday I attended the CaRILLO event for developers of information literacy teaching and learning material. The focus of the day was on re-using and re-purposing information literacy learning objects. The day consisted of a series of short presentations and workshops covering learning object repositories, software for creating learning objects and finding resources for re-use and repurposing. First up was Rebecca Mogg from Cardiff University talking about the Information Literacy Resource Bank (ILRB). This is a central repository of learning objects which can be integrated into teaching materials for use at Cardiff University and beyond. The resources held in the ILRB [...]
