Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: June 30, 2010
At today’s North West Sixth Form College Librarians’ meeting we had a really interesting presentation from an Ofsted inspector talking about the 2009 Ofsted Common Inspection Framework. The group had invited her in to find out more about how the current inspection process impacted on library services. On my travels I’ve heard many times about [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: March 23, 2010
It took me years to get an iPod because I really didn’t want to fall for the hype and I had convinced myself that I had no need for an MP3 player because I had many other ways of listening to music whilst on the move (my mobile phone, and the car stereo!). However, I [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: March 4, 2010
Following an extremely successful pilot initiative last year, JISC TechDis have now launched the OASES which is the Online Accessibility Self Evaluation Service. http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getoases The difference now is that you don’t have to wait three months for a live session but you can go online straight away, watch the video, read the background, do the survey [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 16, 2010
For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. My previous posts contain all the responses from [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 16, 2010
For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will focus [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 16, 2010
For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will focus [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 16, 2010
For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 16, 2010
For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will [...]
Posted by: Chrissie Turkington on: February 16, 2010
For the CoFHE NW AGM we focussed on assessing learners needs and how libraries can resource their learning styles. Based on scenarios, the attendees discussed the current challenges faced by libraries in meeting evolving students needs and then moved on to discuss how technology could potentially help. Over the next few blog entries I will focus [...]
