Steve McComb from LEaD showed us how easy Poll Everywhere is to use. You need to log a call via Service Now to set up your account but once that is done you can create our own poll. Participants in your sessions can respond either via a web link of text on their ‘phones. Questions…Continue Reading Poll everywhere
Ok, so here’s how not to do a conference report, leave it 3 months before writing it up for Staff Development blog! My apologies to all but here at last is my summary report of the Business Librarians Association Conference which I attended in July at Leicester University (co-hosted with Leicester De Montford). The conference…Continue Reading Business Librarians Association Conference
Back in July I attended the in-house Presentation Skills course. I had been trying to get a place on this course for ages and it was well worth the wait. The course was run by Rob Dazely from Frenchmill Training. The course started with the usual introductions (name, job, reason for attending) but these had…Continue Reading Presentation Skills
On a pleasant September afternoon we made our way to Russell Square to find our quiz-slash-task masters, Derek and Samantha, ready and waiting to set our away day challenges. We were assigned three separate tasks and a map to help us with those tasks – an information scavenger hunt, a book bench quiz and a…Continue Reading The Staff Development Group Event, 11th September 2014
Dear All, I have been asked (by Samantha Halford) to blog about a recent training I attended which covered Audio-Visual resources and material that we have at City University. As this is my first blog on this site I will keep this short (and sweet). The training was provided by Alex Asman and the following…Continue Reading Finding Audio-Visual Resources at City Library
I’ve already blogged the conference overall, but there were three sessions that I particularly liked, so I thought I’d write them up in more detail. Clarity in collaboration: making partnerships work in across-campus student skills support Employability was a theme that permeated the conference this year, as it has in the past, and as…Continue Reading Samantha’s LILAC 2014 Part 2: Bath bombs, employability and bite-size teaching
I was aware of the Erasmus Staff Mobility Scheme for professional support staff and applied to participate in it this year. I have a degree in Modern Languages and spent a year abroad in France and Germany as part of this. I applied to visit the Freie Universität Berlin Library which is a major research…Continue Reading Erasmus staff mobility visit – Freie Universität Berlin
I recently visited the IOE Library “The Newsam Library and Archives holds extensive collections of current and historical materials on education and related areas of social science. In addition to supporting the work of staff and students at the Institute of Education, the Library and Archives welcomes enquiries from all scholars, researchers and others…Continue Reading Visit to IOE Library
I visited recently SOAS to meet subject librarians to discuss experiences of researcher and subject support. The Library website is http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/ I used to work there previously and it was great to see some former colleagues when walking round. SOAS has undergone some refurbishment, particularly on the ground floor where there is now an exhibition…Continue Reading Visit to SOAS Library
At the beginning of July I attended the 2 day Talis user group at the University of Leicester. The event was a mixture of group discussion, presentations and panel discussions and was generally an interesting update on what other universities are doing with the Aspire reading list system and the developments Talis are currently working…Continue Reading Talis User Group 2014