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Chrissie's Muses
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eLearning around the Northwest
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links for 2010-07-05
Review on LJMU Innovative and Technologically Enhanced Learning Spaces Presentation given at SOLSTICE Conference 2010 (tags: library learning_spaces)
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Librarians and the 2009 Ofsted Inspection
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 [...]
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Librarians – the Facebook experts?
Strange title I know but has it got you thinking? Facebook is now a massive social influence on young persons lives. They keep in touch via it, arrange to meet via it and also play games via it. I’m sure they would instruct it to make the tea if it could! But, worryingly there are [...]
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iPods in Libraries
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 [...]
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OASES – Assess your Library Accessibility and Inclusion Provision
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 [...]
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links for 2010-03-02
UK Web Archive Here you can see how sites have changed over time, locate information no longer available on the live Web and observe the unfolding history of a spectrum of UK activities represented online. Sites that no longer exist elsewhere are found here and those yet to be archived can be saved for the [...]
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19th Century Classics on Kindle
The British Library and Amazon have recently announced a new agreement to make 65,000 of their 19th Century literature titles available free-of-charge through the Amazon Kindle Store. I see this partnership as a big step towards the Kindle becoming the eReader of choice within the UK. Have a look at the press release at: http://www.bl.uk/news/2010/pressrelease20100223a.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BritishLibraryPressReleases+%28British+Library+Press+Releases%29 [...]
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links for 2010-03-01
Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers | Electronic Frontier Foundation (tags: eBooks copyright privacy drm)
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Let’s Join The Revolution Presentation
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 [...]
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CoFHE NW AGM: Learner Scenarios 7
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 [...]
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