John Kirriemuir's point:
"j) The Library Schools. Often overlooked, but *very*
important, as it will be the students who pass through
the library schools who will be using, training,
maintaining and participating in the practises, and with
the physical parts, of this Electronic Library. How to
reach these students best of all (maybe they, and
Library School staff, have ideas) - workshops for
students, targeted literature, etc, is something eLib
projects (in singularity and collectively) and the
programme as a whole, may wish to think about as a
matter of some priority."
...is an important one. Writing as Chair of the Heads of Departments
and Schools Committee of BAILER, I can say that so far we have been
approached by only one project (EDULIB) - of course some of the
Departments are closely involved in other projects. I am sure that
my colleagues around the country will be very happy to receive
approaches from projects about how best to disseminate information to
students, and, indeed, input to the curriculum review process.
Perhaps there is scope in the eLib programme dissemination activities
for a whole workshop aimed at curriculum implications of the
projects. If that was aimed for 1988, it could well be that the main
committee of BAILER (Chair, Dick Hartley at UNN) would be interested
in making it the location for the AGM that year.
On dissemination in general, colleagues may be interested in a report
on the subject:
Craghill, D. & Wilson, T.D. The impact of information research.
London: British Library, 1987. (BL Research Paper 20)
and in a short paper derived from the report:
Wilson, T.D. Monitoring and evaluating information-related research.
Education for Information, vol. 14, no. 2, 1996, 85-93
Our work demonstrated that dissemination must be muli-modal and my
experience of other projects is that paper dissemination is perhaps
the least useful means of reaching practitioners. Training workshops
are perhaps the most useful, but MUST be keyed to genuine
practitioner concerns, rather than simply seeking to inform. The
consequence of this is that different types of projects will need
different modes of dissemination - in fact, I prefer the word
"diffusion" because it has connotations of a rather more proactive
kind of activity than dissemination.
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Professor Tom Wilson
Head of Department of Information Studies
University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K.
Tel. +44-114-222-2631 Fax. +44-114-278-0300
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/I-M/is/lecturer/tom1.html
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"A university is an Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, not a factory, or a mint, or a
treadmill." John Henry Newman
My - haven't times changed!
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