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Librarian Corner: Evaluating online resources
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Monday, 3 June 2013. What is the resource, who owns it and who is it aimed at? What is its content and coverage? How easy and intuitive is it to use? Would it enhance and compliment our existing collections? HELM stands for Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics. It has been developed by a consortium of five English universities and aims to. Enhance the mathematical education of engineering undergraduates by the provision of a range of flexible learning resources". The site was last updated in 2005. We ...
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Librarian Corner: March 2012
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Monday, 19 March 2012. What do we want? When do we want it? Following distribution of the comments and feedback from the focus group we are now identifying action points we can put into effect and combining our ideas on a wiki. With my role focusing on resources my action points emphasise this area. What do we want? More textbooks for our course". Several factors need to be taken into consideration: how many students are on the course? What do we want? More e-books for our course". What do we want? More ...
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Things: Bright & Shiny | Thoughts of Walker Abroad
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Thoughts of Walker Abroad. Skip to primary content. Things: Bright & Shiny. October 13, 2014. Things: Bright and Shiny. To explore new technologies, new ways of doing things, new… Oh I sound like the opening credits to. But I find it handy to separate out my blogs. Thoughts of Walker Abroad. Was supposed to be used in conjunction with the International Librarian Network so I could explore what it meant for me to work in a library. Things: Bright and Shiny. But ironically that didn’t work out. You are com...
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walkerabroad | Thoughts of Walker Abroad
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Thoughts of Walker Abroad. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Special Collections Librarian. Interested in technology, travel, photographing clouds and light. UCC’s Special Collections on Shush! Sounds from UCC Library. February 8, 2017. Recently I was asked to record a segment about UCC Library’s Special Collections for a music and library radio chat show: Shush! Source: UCC’s Special Collections on Shush! Sounds from UCC Library. Teaching and Learning: Entry Points to Learning. Do the ...
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Librarian Corner: April 2012
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Thursday, 5 April 2012. Over the four days that I'm in work over Easter I have two main projects on the go. One is designing the College's Moodle page promoting the Olympics and the other is to design a Xerte on basic invigilator training for the Exams department. I'm also collaborating with a colleague to design our new staff-facing page on the College's intranet. It has made me think how much of my role involves designing. I design:. The LRC's pages in Moodle. But it did get me thinking . ! Personal Kn...
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Librarian Corner: #uklibchat 6th June 2013 - Collection Management
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Friday, 7 June 2013. Uklibchat 6th June 2013 - Collection Management. Last night I took part in my first #uklibchat on Twitter. The theme was collection management. My job role is Information Advisor (Resources and Content) in an FE/HE College so I thought it could be useful. There will be an official summary written up by @uklibchat but, since this was my first, I thought I'd write my own reflections too. How do you manage weeding of physical stock? How much do you involve tutors? 7 In what ways will Op...
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Librarian Corner: May 2012
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Thursday, 24 May 2012. London Dawson Day 2012 - Success through synergy. Yesterday I spent a very enjoyable day at this year's London Dawson Day run by Dawson Books and, this year, held at the very impressive headquarters of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The theme of the day was. And the presentations highlighted the successful collaboration between Dawson and Bertrams and academic institutions. Bridget Jones 2: the edge of reason. For the remainder of lunch I went round the exhibitions from publis...
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Librarian Corner: Weeding Project
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Thursday, 5 December 2013. Orla Kierly garden spade &. Fork from amantidirect.co.uk). I used Heritage to identify print titles which hadn't been borrowed along with titles with edition numbers and, in conjunction with the College prospectus, titles which supported old exam boards. Within the three subject areas the following criteria were then applied when looking at each item:. Age and relevance to subject - is the information now out of date/have there been new developments? I reviewed each item select...
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library geeking « A Modern Hypatia
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About this site, about me. Ask this librarian answers. Older Entries ». A year at work (and a day in the life). By Jen, on May 4th, 2016%. Today is my one year anniversary working at Perkins. I am still amazingly happy here! I thought it might be a nice time to do a day in my work life. Continue reading A year at work (and a day in the life). Fluid Choices : Accessibility and Reference. By Jen, on March 17th, 2016%. My slides are up on my SlideShare. By Jen, on May 25th, 2015%. I’m now three weeks ...
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Librarian Corner: November 2012
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Friday, 23 November 2012. There has been very little time to be involved in anything 'extra-curricular' since the beginning of term. It has zoomed by and I'm only now just able to start checking Twitter and the blogs I follow again. To get me back into the swing of writing for my blog I thought I'd start with an overview of what's kept me occupied for the last couple of months! Delivering introductory inductions to groups of new students. Training new member of the Front of House team. I hope as the term...
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