I did a webinar for OneHE about this website and the community of practice we have in information literacy at York St John University yesterday. I’ll post the link to the recording once it is available from the organisers. Some of those who joined in were interested in the research I did, as part of… Read More »
There was a meeting of members of the community of practice on 11 June. We focused on induction for the 2019/20 academic year in the main, but some other points were raised too, especially in how we can work together to publish undergraduate research projects. Here were the key issues raised and how we plan… Read More »
This post comes from Jane Munks, the academic liaison librarian for the York Business School, which welcomes intakes of pre-sessional students. These are students who arrive in advance of their degrees starting, to build their knowledge of the English needed for study on an undergraduate course. The input was designed for approx. 8 students and… Read More »
This post was provided by Katherine Hughes, Academic Liaison Librarian at York St John. Background to the session In Spring term 2019 I delivered a session on using archives and special collections in Creative Writing research. This session was embedded within the third year Creative Research in Practice module, which focuses on different research methods… Read More »
There will be a meeting for any members of YSJ staff who would like to reflect on how the autumn term has panned out in terms of information in the curriculum, 6 December, 10-11am, DG104. I thought we could look specifically at how inductions went and also think about level 5 and 6 dissertations, but… Read More »
This seminar was designed at the request of the module leader. She had heard about a presentation that the Academic Liaison Librarian team had given at a RIPPLE meeting on how we work in partnership with academic colleagues, and was interested in a discussion that had taken place about how reading list design in Higher… Read More »
RefWorks allows groups to work together in creating and annotating reference lists and bibliographies. These are draft instructions. If you think this could be used in your teaching or research, let us know how. Sharing a RefWorks folder for collaborative work
If you would like to use the RefWorks tool for creating annotated bibliographies with your students, we have some draft instructions available. All comments/suggestions/ideas for using this very welcome. Using RefWorks to create an annotated bibliography
There was a meeting to discuss information use and evaluation and support for first year undergraduates on 28 June. This is an outline of the key issues raised and some of the suggested ways in which they may be tackled. Negative feedback after being given tasks involving reading articles, especially in the mid-module review Key… Read More »
A jointly designed session between me (Clare) in the library and tutors on year 2 of the Primary Education degree, the aim of this session when it first ran was to encourage students to evaluate sources, use them in their work, and reference them effectively. Since we first started to run it a few years… Read More »