Here at MPOW it’s nothing to get involved in projects that are technically a little (or even a lot) outside one’s area of expertise and professional knowledge. I’ve blogged before about this so it’s nothing new. The particular ‘things’ that are taking up my time at the moment include teaching academic skills as our usual…
We had another orientation session for new students here at MPOW today. Today I chose to sit in on the entire 90 minutes, usually I just arrive in time to do my bit and then leave again. I’m so glad I was there for the whole thing today. We had a great presentation by the…
I love books. I love print books, e-books, audio books, old books, new books, kids books and all the books in between. This, incidentally, is not why I am a librarian – but that is a story for another post. Growing up I wanted nothing more than to own a book shop (or a deli,…
I’m currently writing the Plagiarism and Referencing part of my online library modules for our Moodle here at MPOW. Delivering information literacy instruction entirely online is a challenge, I would far rather be in front of the students talking to and working with them, particularly bearing in mind the ESL status of our students. I…
Today I’ve been focussing on marketing. A few weeks ago I developed a library user survey for the students using Survey Monkey. Due to a whole lot of technical issues we only managed to send the link out to our students today so I’ve yet to see how useful that is going to be. I…
I am heartened by the fact that other staff at MPOW seem to think that student patronage of the library has increased tenfold since it has been staffed full time (about 6 weeks now). I like to think that the fact that I am bombarding the students with messages, information, classes and emails is helping. …
Welcome to my ramblings as a first year graduate (at 43) librarian. I wanted to use this blog to record my achievements, efforts and successes (and yes, I guess my failures too!) so that I would have some way of being able to measure how far I had (hopefully) come in my first year of…
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