Today, I met with Meg Upjohn, who is the chemistry librarian at the University of Canterbury here in Christchurch. Meg is very interested in the work I have been doing with Christine Bleasdale in our chenistry school, looking at embedding info lit into the chemistry curriculum and specifically this term at using the SRS system to do some diagnostic testing with the chemistry first years. I’ve agreed to send Meg some more info about this work to see if she can replicate it.
She is also going to collaborate with me in my research about perceptions of IL and will run my survey with her own staff and students in chemistry and hopefully also in a local high school, to give us some comparative international data to work on. This promises to be a very useful collaboration and I’m delighted to be working with Meg on this.
The photo is the Botanic Gardens in Christchurch.