Guide to Certification and Chartership - Tuesday 28th January, Nottingham

Guide to Certification and Chartership - Tuesday 28th January, West Bridgford Library, 10am – 1pm.

This session is for candidates who are working towards Certification and Chartership using the old criteria and are required to submit their portfolios before the deadline at the end of November 2014.

To book your place contact Helen Drakard email: helen.drakard@leics.gov.uk
telephone: 0116 3053653.
 
Candidates are also invited to attend a tour of West Bridgford Library 2pm – 4pm

The Librarian's Skillbook

I'm going to challenge myself to look at a skill per week in the new year, taken from Hunt, Deborah and Grossman, David (2013) The Librarian's Skillbook: 51 essential career skills for information professionals. Would anyone like to join me? Some of the skills look like things I do anyway but others will be introducing a new skill or a refresher for something I don't often do in my work. Let me know if anyone fancies taking on the challenge too and we can use this blog to chat about the skills each week.

Linda Dawes ldawes@harlaxton.ac.uk

Local job vacancies

Looking for a job within Library and Information in he East Midlands? Take a look at the LIEM job vacancy page at http://www.liem.org.uk/Working_in_EM_libraries/Current_jobs.

Are you an employer with a vacancy to advertise? Let LIEM know and they will add it to the page.

Local library temporary closure

What with work and studying I haven't used my local library (Wigston, Leicestershire) much recently; now with more time over the summer break I've discovered it's closed for refurbishment! However I'm pleased that they're spending money and also very pleased that they've arranged to open the children's section nearby - as a child I'd have been lost without my almost daily trips to the library.

I've just finished 'The Appearance of truth' by Rosemary J Kind - good page-turner for the summer. Also enjoyed "Lovers take up less room: an alphabet guide to the Tube" by Rosemary - a funny, quirky book. I'll own up to the fact that her Mum is a friend of mine - but without this link I don't think I'd have come across these books.

Save Lincolnshire Libraries

Guardian article about forthcoming cuts for Lincolnshire Libraries http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2013/jul/03/why-we-should-not-cut-libraries

Innovative , inspiring, forthcoming event at De Montfort University......“Making the textual visual”: Engaging visual learners with text.

Collage note book, one of many techniques to be experienced at
 

“Making the textual visual”: Engaging visual learners with text.

Thursday 4^th July 2013

Kimberlin Library (00.11), De Montfort University 

I am really looking forward to our forthcoming event "Making the textual visual”: Engaging visual learners with text" here at  De Montfort University.  This will be an exciting and different event which is based on research and connections made through a DMU Teacher fellow project run by Kaye Towlson  (Academic Librarian (Learning and Teaching) and Julia Reeve (Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities), De Montfort University. This event will take place Thursday 4th July 2013, Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University offers Librarians, Learning Developers and academics from across the UK the chance to:  

• Experience visual and kinaesthetic learning techniques
• Hear about the student response and experience of such techniques,
• Consider the theoretical underpinning to this type of learning,
• Engage with Critical thinking activities
• Explore visually enabled reflection
• Group work to put methods into practice
• A chance to network across disciplines, professions and institutions.

Speakers include Lisa Clughen Nottingham Trent University, Jenny Moon, Bournemouth University and Alke Groppel-Wegener, University of Staffordshire as well as Kaye Towlson and Julia Reeve. The event will look at and experience in ways of enabling students to cross the text barrier frequently faced by visual and tactile learners.

Queries contact Kaye Towlson (kbt@dmu.ac.uk).

Image enriched mind map to aid planning and scoping of task or assignment

 

Journey planning, using sketches and images to envisage assignment pathway to success

 

 

 

 

 

East Midlands Branch Members' Day 2013

Derby QUAD

Market Square, Derby DE1 3AS

March 21st 2013  9.30 (10.00 start) – 3.30

Speakers:

Jo Webb and Kaye Towlson, De Montfort University
Everyone is a Learner: supporting learning and information literacy development

Barbara Band, CILIP Vice President and Head of Library and Resources, The Emmbrook School

CILIP and the informational professional moving forward

Simon Edwards, Director of Professional Services CILIP and Kath Owen, Chair of CILIP Qualifications Board

Future Skills update

The AGM of East Midlands Branch will take place at 12 noon – members will not be charged if they wish to attend the AGM only.

There will be a charge of £10 (payable on the day, no charge for unemployed).

To reserve a place, please download the form from: http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/regional-branches/east-midlands/pages/news.aspx

and return it to kath_owen@yahoo.co.uk.

The closing date for applications is March 1^st 2013