Monthly Archives: January 2009

Informed Transitions

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Thanks to Nancy from Birmingham for alerting me to this website. Informed Transitions High School Outreach programme is an initiative of Kent State University Library, USA. The program’s mission is to foster successful student transitions from high school to college by developing information literacy and promoting positive attitudes to academic libraries – exactly what I am interested in doing too!
Nancy and I have been talking for a while about organising some kind of collaborative event for school teachers, school librarians and academic librarians to get together to form a community of practice to develop similar programmes. I hope to start planning this event soon, so if there is anyone reading the blog who would like to get involved, please do get in touch.


Lake Clifton, WA (thanks to Darryl, who won a competition with this photo)

http://www.library.kent.edu/page/10973

Database of research in international education

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This seems like a useful resource from Australia. A search for “library” brings up 91 results. The introduction says: “This searchable database contains details of 7677 books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of international education from publishers in Australia and abroad. The database houses material published from 1990 onwards, a period of major change in education systems around the world and in the trade in educational services”

The harbour at Meze, S of France, summer 2009

http://www.idp.com/resear…_research.aspx.

International student support references

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Karen Senior and I are giving a talk on the SCONUL Guidelines on Library support for International students next week at the M25 Consortium Business Meeting. As part of the preparation for that, we thought it would be helpful to share the database of refs on libraries and international students which we created during the research. You can find it here and under the Databases of references link on the left.
I shall be adding a lot of new references to it over the next couple of weeks.


Water jousting in Meze, South of France, 2008

http://www.refworks.com/r…8/International

E Book readers

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I thought I would use a little of my NTF funding to buy a selection of E Book readers. My aim is to evaluate them for ease of use and to speculate on what kinds of implications and applications they might have for academic libraries. I will be looking at as many different models as possible, testing how they handle different formats, thinking about accessibility and potential uses within HE. I plan to ask a range of people (students, teachers, admin staff, library staff) to try them and give me (structured) feedback on some of the above points and more. I wondered if any people reading the blog might also have an ebook reader and might like to contribute their experiences, give me an opinion, or volunteer to try out a reader for me. If so, I’d love to hear from you (moira.bent@ncl.ac.uk)

Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne (pic from Louise)

Christmas number one

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I have just heard from our Institutional Repository manager that my NTF report which I deposited last month had 86 downloads in December, which made it the top downloaded paper from our repository. I can now claim to have had a Christmas Number one! I’m pleased so many people are interested in it, even though it isn’t a high level piece of work.


Sadly we lost Bramley last month, so this is the last picture of him

http://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/…deposit_id=6052