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Avoiding plagiarism in Derby

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Earlier this month, Marie and I attended CILIP’s UC & R (East Midlands division) event entitled ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ (what can we do to help students avoid plagiarism) held in the luminously coloured library at the University of Derby. I found it useful because one of the presentations (Colin Neville, University of Bradford) recommended that HEIs [...]

Written by Daren Mansfield

December 15th, 2009 at 9:48 am

Focus on your teaching: revisiting current practice and sharing new ideas

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Organised by the East Midlands Section of University College and Research Group on the 28th April and held at the Kimberlin Library, De Montfort University, Leicester, Focus on your teaching was primarily an event for librarians teaching in HE institutions but held relevance for many other staff. It struck me that many of the things [...]

BBSLG Conference 2008

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At the beginning of July I attended the BBSLG (British Business Schools’ Librarians Group) annual conference, hosted by Leeds Met and Leeds University and held at the Metropole hotel in Leeds.  The subject this year was space, including library space, learning spaces and even “head space” (stress).  There were talks by Philippa Levy (Sheffield Information [...]