Visit of the Bloomberg European Headquarters A small group of City Library staff, academics and students headed under the sun towards Bank Station on Thursday 28th June to discover one of the most recent additions to London’s list of iconic buildings. The Bloomberg European Headquarters soon came into view, and we were all shown into…Continue Reading Tour of Iconic Bloomberg European Headquarters and London Mithraeum, 28th June 2018
The Technology for All conference
The Technology for All Conference (Monday 19 March) was put together and hosted by University of the Arts London at their Chelsea campus in Pimlico, right opposite Tate Britain. The event was brought together and included voices from members of staff from a range of departments as well as key accessibility partners, companies and suppliers….Continue Reading The Technology for All conference
This is not a fake blog post
On what started as a rather miserable June day, Alex and I headed to Elephant & Castle to attend ‘this is not a fake conference’ at London South Bank University. The programme was packed and included a variety of speakers. Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump was mentioned by most. In this post I hope to provide a…Continue Reading This is not a fake blog post
Book Review: “Creative Confidence; unleashing the creative potential within all of us”
Kelley, D., 1951 and Kelley, T., (2013) Creative confidence: unleashing the creative potential within us all. London: William Collins. I have two appraisal objectives that are centred around improving services to different groups of users, and I’ve been struggling to come up with ideas. I support a course called MICL, the Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership. Their…Continue Reading Book Review: “Creative Confidence; unleashing the creative potential within all of us”
Now In A Minute
I recently attended the CPD25 event, CPD and learning technology: skills for librarians to support information and digital literacy. I was interested in how the role of the librarian intersects with learning technologies and in getting new ideas for how learning technologies could be applied to delivering information literacy teaching. The speakers, Elizabeth Charles and…Continue Reading Now In A Minute
Supporting Students and Staff with Mental Health Disorders
On the afternoon of 27th April, I rushed down to Bloomsbury in time to attend the CPD25 event: Supporting Students and Staff with Mental Health Disorders. I had been very much looking forward to this event so I could learn more about how we can better look after our students (and staff) during their time…Continue Reading Supporting Students and Staff with Mental Health Disorders
Enabling learning through storytelling
Reblogged from: http://citylibresearchers.wordpress.com I recently attended a lunchtime workshop run by the City Academy on narratives and storytelling based on a performance arts approach. I’m interested in both using the telling of stories or experiences to explain concepts but also in hearing the narratives of students. The basic idea of this is that the use…Continue Reading Enabling learning through storytelling
Digifest 2018
Back in March I was lucky enough to travel to Birmingham to attend Digifest. Digifest is a large free, two day conference hosted by JISC which focuses on educational technology and is attended by a managers, academics, technologists and librarians. I attended a range of keynotes, workshops, lightning talks which covered a range of topics…Continue Reading Digifest 2018
Focus groups with CityLIS students
LibGuides is an easy to use content management system which is used by City, University of London Library Services and libraries across the world to create small websites which are called ‘guides’. LibGuides is owned by a company called Springshare and is part of a suite of products called LibApps, this includes LibCal (used to…Continue Reading Focus groups with CityLIS students
Library Services Journal Club – 17th April 2018
This month’s paper, selected by Catie Tuttle, was ‘Getting the truth out: the role of libraries in the fight against fake news’ by Oliver Batchelor. Written months after the 2016 US election, the article argues that library staff have a ‘civic obligation’ to promote critical thinking skills and that the current climate presents an opportunity…Continue Reading Library Services Journal Club – 17th April 2018