Library Association University College & Research Group
East Midlands Section
Strategies for success: information skills sessions that work
Kimberlin Library,
De Montfort University Leicester
24 November 1998, 1.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.
If you have ever:
- wondered if you should be running your user education differently?
- worried that there's something wrong with the content?
- wanted to see how other people ran their sessions?
- needed to talk to somebody about evaluating student induction!
This half-day meeting is designed to make those wishes come true! Rather
than focusing on the theory and processes of teaching and educational
design, in this meeting practising librarians talk about their most
successful user education or information skills sessions - and why they
think they work. Participants will look at both content and process, and
thus gain insights into how our teaching turns out in practice. Rather
than offering prescriptive accounts of best practice we will see some
realistic examples of how to do it well.
Because of the diversity of the teaching and training we do, the speakers
represent a range of institutions and student groups, so wherever you
work, we hope that this meeting has something to offer.
The speakers are:
Alison McNab on the Loughborough University Training Programme for
research students
Tracy Mulvaney on running sessions with international students at the
University of Birmingham
Sheila Padden on user education at the John Rylands University Library of
Manchester
Chris Powis on first year business student inductions at Nene - University
College Northampton
Ruth Stubbings on information problem-solving sessions at De Montfort
University Leicester.
The venue
The meeting will be held in the Lecture room on level 1 of the Kimberlin
Library, De Montfort University, Leicester, which seats up to 60
delegates. There is full disabled access to the building.
The University is located on the edge of Leicester city centre, close to
main roads, with easy access to the M1 and M69. It is a 15 minute walk to
the rail and bus stations. Public car parks are located a few minutes
A campus map is available from:
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/Leicester/leicester_city_map.html
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Booking form
Delete where appropriate:
Please reserve ___ place(s) for the "Information skills" meeting. ( If
booking for a group, please enclose delegate names)
I enclose payment of #10+VAT/#15+VAT. Cheques made payable to LAUCRG,
East Midlands Group
Please invoice me/my institution
Do you require an additional map and directions? (Y / N)
Cancellations with less than 5 working days notice will be liable for the
full payment.
Name
Address
Telephone
LA Membership number
Send to:
Lindy S Wilson
Information Librarian
Leicester University Library
PO Box 248
University Road
LEICESTER
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 0116 252 2055
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