After a request from Phil Race on the NTFs list for examples of questions about teaching which folk wanted answers to, I decided to use this as a basis of a library staff workshop. 10 library staff participated, all involved in different kinds of teaching activity – some doing well integrated information literacy work, others running practical workshops, some doing outreach with local school children, others working with archive material. We submitted questions beforehand and structured small group discussions around this, reporting back to the whole group and then comparing our thoughts with the answers from the draft chapter of Phil’s book, which he knidly shared with us. We all felt that we got a lot from the workshop and it went on for almost 2 hours as no one wanted to stop! We’re planning to have a follow up in the summer, where we will look at the suggestions again and see if anyone went away and tried any new approaches and if so, how it went. We’ll also probably carry on with another set of questions and build up our own little set of suggestions.

You can see the questions we discussed and the suggestions we came up with here:

Vitruvian Man sculpture at Vinci, Italy, 2009.