Hello everyone
At the University of Cumbria, the Library Service merged with Student Services around 18 months ago, and we feel that now we're perhaps at a good point to begin to review our provision - and as likely to be a restructure of the service, we hope to be in a position to inform this process in some way! Our current set up is a team of Learning Advisers, working across a number of campuses, covering the specific areas of Library and Information literacy skills (subject librarians), Academic skills and Digital skills. Each specialist team is led by a Senior Learning Adviser, who also manage a liaison team which is aligned to one of our three faculties. We work in partnership with Faculties in order to embed the development of students’ skills within different course models and throughout their experience at university, from face to face workshops to flexible online delivery. A large proportion of our student body is adult returns studying part-time; we have an increasing number of distance learning students along with intentional students.
One of the areas we would like to benchmark is the scope of the role of our subject liaison librarians in our team. Each of our subject librarians manages book/journal budgets for approx five subject areas. Their role is split approx 60% information literacy teaching and learning and 40% collection management/subject librarian work. Do subject librarians at other institutions manage more or less subject areas? Is the percentage split between the two aspects of the role comparable to other HEIs?
The academic skills advisers’ role split is approx 40% academic skills teaching and learning group sessions and 60% individual F2F delivery. This percentage split is to meet the huge demand for 1:1 appointments; however, in light of the current climate, we are under pressure to redress this inequality, and provide time for development of eresources and other projects.
We would like to know if any other institutions have merged their skills support specialism’s (information literacy, academic and digital skills) and also how this support is offered. Do institutions offer/advertise/encourage 1:1 support? Do any institutions offer skills support using online materials only? What is the percentage split between individual/group sessions/online support if all three methods are offered?
Questions, questions…
Best wishes, and many thanks
Kind regards
Karen Shaw
Senior Learning Adviser, Academic Liaison
Academic Liaison, Employability and Skills (ALES)
Learning, Information and Student Services (LISS)
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