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Please feel free to forward this announcement to your FE colleagues.
UKSG is pleased to be hosting this one-day seminar which is free to those working in FE institutions.
The day includes refreshments and lunch, as well as a prize draw for two fully expensed places at
the UKSG 2017 Annual Conference in Harrogate next April.
RESOURCING A RICH AND VARIED CURRICULUM:
content, knowledge and skills for Further Education learning resources services
Wednesday 30 November 2016
The King's Fund/No. 11 Cavendish Square, London W1
(kindly sponsored by EBSCO and JCS Online Resources)
UKSG is hosting this free event to share ideas and new insights into delivering services in a diverse and demanding further education environment. This informal gathering will provide a platform for the FE community to share experiences and innovative ideas for delivering and resourcing library and information services in the further education sector.
Resourcing a rich and varied curriculum: content, knowledge and skills covers key areas and challenges in delivering and developing services to support a wide-ranging curriculum and diverse user group. The event will provide delegates with the opportunity to share tips, techniques and strategies that can be integrated into their own service and environment. Examples include: developing learning resources staff skills, overcoming the challenges of providing services to a diverse student base, the development and delivery of online support, developing student skills, and increasing the usage of electronic resources.
For full details of the programme and how to book please go to http://www.uksg.org/event/FE301116 .
UKSG www.uksg.org<http://www.uksg.org> is an organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors.
Programme
10.00 Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome and introduction by the Chair and UKSG representative
Elizabeth Newbold, Group Learning Resources Manager, Activate Learning
10.35 Keynote: Resourcing the digital learner
Lis Parcell, Subject Specialist: Libraries and Digital Resources, Jisc
11.00 A journey to Grade 1 provision: securing the future of the LRC service
David Scott, Head of Learning Centres and Financial Support, Kirklees College
11.15 Presentation by JCS Online Resources (EVENT SPONSOR)
11.30 Break
11.45 Delivering e-journals to a vocational Foundation Degree in an FE college
Jocelyn Bailey, Hackney Community College
12.00 Embedding Es into the curriculum
Karen Foster, Head of Learning Centres, Yeovil College
12.15 Increasing e-resource usage: the Strode College experience
Angela Leavens, Head of Learning Resources and E-Learning, Strode College
12.30 TBC
Simon Rice, Learning Resources Manager, Barnfield College
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Promoting e-resources
Carolyn Beckford, UK Trainer, Gale | Cengage Learning
14.00 Showcasing iSkills
Hannah Bennett and Lorna Hector, Guildford College Group
14.15 Presentation by EBSCO (EVENT SPONSOR)
14.30 Troubleshooting (and refreshments)
Delegates will have the opportunity to discuss in breakout groups their own challenges and solutions
15.20 What I learnt today
15.45 PRIZE DRAW
15.50 Summing up and close of seminar at 16.00
Feedback from previous UKSG E-Resources for Further Education events:
* "Excellent day. Useful accessible information. Thank you."
* "Lots of opportunities to network and catch up with other institutions."
* "The speakers were uniformly excellent, the vendors informative and interesting."
* "I liked the whole atmosphere of the day, particularly the mix of practitioners and suppliers and the friendliness of all concerned to help on the day and in the future."
Cancellations
Whilst this event is free to FE delegates we still need to know numbers for capacity/catering purposes so please advise us by Monday 21 November 2016 if you need to cancel your attendance.
NB: UKSG reserves the right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
Karen Sadler
Administrator
UKSG
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