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 in a different way?
worried that therewanted 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
have been chosen to represent a range of institutions and student groups,
so wherever you work, we hope that this meeting has something to offer.


Programme

1.00 - 1.15 Registration and tea/coffee

1.10 - 1.20 Welcome and introduction to the meeting
Jo Webb, Team leader - Business Law and Humanities, De Montfort
University Leicester

1.30 - 2.00 Training to international students in Public Policy
Tracy Mulvaney, Commerce & Social Science Liaison Librarian,
University of Birmingham

2.00 - 2.30 Beer: using a case study approach at induction
Chris Powis, Learning support co-ordinator, Nene - University
College Northampton

2.30 - 3.00 Introducing "New ERIC" to staff and students at Manchester
University
Sheila Padden, Librarian for Education and Health Services &
Staff Training and Development Co-ordinator, John Rylands University
Library of Manchester

3.00 - 3.30 Tea

3.30 - 4.00 Information skills and research students
Alison McNab, Academic Services Manager

4.00 - 4.30 Information problem-solving in study skills modules
Ruth Stubbings, Team leader - Arts, Computing, Engineering and
Science, De Montfort University Leicester

4.30 - 5.00 Plenary and close

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. Closing date for firm bookings - 19 November 1998

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Address




Telephone

LA Membership
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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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* Jo Webb *
* Kimberlin Library *
* De Montfort University *
* Leicester Fax: 44 116 250 6360 *
* LE1 9BH Tel: 44 116 255 1551 x8046 *
* UK Email: [log in to unmask] *
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