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Adam Edwards and Vanessa Hill
Sept 2014
Information Literacy SkillsLondon Health Libraries
Welcome
09.30-10.00 Refreshments
10:00-10:45 What makes a bad workshop?
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-13:00 The Winner takes it all
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Create a game
15:45-16:00 Questions
16:00 Close
What makes a bad workshop?
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Solutions
Enhancing the quality and impact of Library Workshops
Adam Edwards and Vanessa Hill
June 2014
The winner takes it all
Knowing me, knowing you
• Issues
• Collaboration
• Inspiration
• Solutions
• Impact
SOS
• Not embedded
• Inconsistent provision
• Repetitive
• Bad timing
• Information skills
• Teaching methods
Librarians and teaching
• Relevance
• Too much
• Tools based
• Didactic
• Uninspiring
• Subject
• Teaching skills
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vicchi/4079403111/
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
• Answers
• Facts
• References
• Reporting back
• Easy option
• Fear
Librarians reinforce this!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nottsexminer/6270679714/
Arrival
Teaching qualifications:
•PGCertHE @ MDX
•Teaching Fellowships
•FHEA
•TESOL
Benefits:
•Equivalent
•Learning together
•Language
•Respect
•Understanding
Björn Again
• Less is more
• Cloning
• Discussion
• Learning by doing
• Learners, not the taught
• Games
http://advedupsyfall09.wikispaces.com/Sara+Woodard
The name of the game
• Fun
• Quick
• Simple
• Easy
• Need or objective
Adapted from Susan Boyle, Lilac 2011
I have a dream
Move from
“ …lifting and transporting textual substance from
one location, the library, to another, their
teacher’s briefcases.”
To
“…searching, analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing,
selecting, rejecting…”
Kleine 1987
Super Troupers
• School plan
• Mapping
• Structure
• Menu
Greatest Hits
• Thinking about resources
• Keywords
• Searching
• Evaluation
Example of coursework marking criteria
10% Introduction
15% Overview
30% Critical analysis
15% Discussion
10% Conclusion
10% Referencing
10% Quality etc
Maximum marks for a well
referenced and accurate
description of [subject]
using suitable references
Maximum of 10 marks for a list of
references which is both relevant,
and correctly given in Harvard
style
Maximum of 10 marks for quality,
style of writing and presentation
Thinking about resources
Books
What are they:
A written or printed work of fiction or fact.
May be electronic.
Good for:
Clear overview.
Not so good for:
Up to date information.
Journal
What are they:
A regular publication containing articles on a particular
academic subject.
Presents new research.
Good for:
Latest research, critically reviewed by experts.
Not so good for:
Broad overview of a subject.
Web page
What are they:
An information resource which can be easily created by
anyone on any topic.
Electronic.
Good for:
Very up to date information.
Not so good for:
Accurate and reliable information.
Newspaper
What are they:
A regular publication containing current events,
informative articles, diverse features and advertising.
May be electronic.
Good for:
Daily information.
Not so good for:
Balanced and well researched information.
Popular (trade) journal
What are they:
A regular publication containing new products plus
information for a business sector.
Good for:
Latest product news.
Not so good for:
Detailed and objective reports.
Find out moreMyUniHub > MyStudy > MyLibrary > Library Subject Guides
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/EIS
Thinking about keywords
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossjamesparker/89414788/
The real thing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidelong/300188454/
Your first piece of coursework for CCM2426 will be based
on the Cornish Villages 4G trial.
•Keywords
•Alternative keywords
•More specific keywords
•Related subjects
Finding resourcesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library > Summon
Select Summon and search
for information for your project
Google vs Summon
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• Familiar and easy to use
• Finds too much information
• Fast results
• Access from any computer
• Access to some books and journals
• Designed to sell you things
• Search results sponsored
• Searches for info from any source
• Pay for academic information
Summon
• Easy to use
• Finds lots of academic info
• Fast results
• Access from any computer
• Access to lots of books and journals
• Designed to find you information
• Search results by relevance
• Searches quality resources
• Free access to full text
Evaluating information
Evaluating information
Imagine you are writing an essay on ‘Network Security’.
Have a look at the 4 items that you have been given and
consider the following:
• Which items are the most relevant to your essay?
• Which items would be no use?
• Which item has the most academic authority?
• Which items might have bias?
• Which item is the most current?
• Authority
• Relevance
• Intent
• Objectivity
• Currency
Evaluating information
How are books arranged in the library?
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Take a chance on me
Marks Attendees Non-attendees
Commonest mark 65% 50%
Highest mark 90% 75%
Lowest mark 40% 40%
Bibliography
commonest mark
7/10 5/10
•Survey of CCM2426 students
•66 attendees, 22 non-attendees
“If you put me to the test, if
you let me try………”
Search tools used Attendees Non-attendees
Google 68% 63%
Wikipedia 38% 27%
Summon 68% 40%
Library catalogue 30% 59%
Evaluation criteria Attendees Non-attendees
Current 89% 59%
Relevant 76% 59%
Academic authority 67% 41%
Easy to read 24% 45%
On and on and on
•Develop activities
•Improve attendance
•Revalidation
•Moodle
•DProf
The winner takes it all
• Successful collaboration
• Changes have worked
• Teaching is more fun
• Impact…
...Library training gets you better marks!
When all is said and done
• Boyle, S. (2011) Using games to enhance information literacy
sessions, Presented at LILAC 2011.
http://www.slideshare.net/infolit_group/boyle-using-games-to-
enchance-information-literacy
• Kleine, M. (1987), What is it we do when we write articles like this
one-Or how can we get students to join us?, Writing Instructor 6,
151.
• Markless, S., (2010), Teaching information literacy in HE: What?
Where? How?, presented at King’s College London, 9/12/10.
[Notes taken at the event.]
http://bit.ly/GamesMDX
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturalturn/3264726560/
Mamma Mia it’s……………
Create a game
• Reflect on our games
• Think about games you know
• Brainstorm ideas
• Create game (1 hour)
• Complete form
• Prepare presentation (15 mins)
• 5 min presentation
Adapted from Susan Boyle, Lilac 2011 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajourneyroundmyskull/4788590225/
Adam Edwards
Vanessa Hill
