Supporting Diverse Student populations ALISS Conference 2012
On 22nd August 2012 ALISS held a conference on the topic theme of
supporting diverse student populations.
The papers are now available online.
See the main aliss website at
http://www.alissnet.org.uk/Display.aspx?id=10737418259 to download them
all.
Ethnicity and Study Skills: active intervention in the library setting
Suzanne White and Lisa Lawrence
Subject Librarians Coventry University.
https://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/ethnicity-and-study-skills-acti
ve-intervention-in-the-library-setting/edit?src=editall
This paper described a project to use roving student helpers to support
BME students. The initiative arose out of a national concern about the
underachievement of British BME students .
Celebrating Diversity
LGBT History Month Library Exhibition
February 2012
Anne-Marie Hayes Coventry University.
http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/celebrating-diversity-lgbt-histo
ry-month-library-exhibition
Described how the library collaborated with the art department to mount
a student art exhibition in the library.
Using g Elluminate to deliver library training to distance/ part time
learners
Helen Clough Learning and teaching Librarian, The Open University.
http://www.slideshare.net/helenalex
Library support for International students Helen Ireland , University of
Warwick.
http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/library-support-for-internationa
l-students
Online learning: Can a generic tutorial meet the disparate needs of
researchers?
Jenny Coombs- University of Nottingham
http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/online-learning-can-a-generic-tu
torial-meet-the-disparate-needs-of-researchers
Described the creation of an online open access information skills
tutorial created for researchers by a consortium of East Midlands
Universities based in Loughborough, Nottingham, Coventry and de
Montfort. The aim was to provide a viable reusable package.
See the tutorials on these websites
http://blog.lboro.ac.uk/emrsg/
http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/emrsg/
Supporting non-traditional students at the university of East London
Simone Ngozi Okolo
Academic Services and Skills Manager
Robin Stinson
Subject Librarian - Social Sciences
http://www.slideshare.net/heatherdawson/library-services-for-nontraditio
nal-students-at-uel
This presentation described work in the UEL Library to support a
widening participation in HE project running mainly in East London
Boroughs of barking Dagenham and Newham.
Heather Dawson
ALISS secretary
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