L&LR staff blog

I’m pleased to announce that we have appointed John Chen as the new Library Assistant (Holbeach Campus). We will welcome John to the Holbeach LRC on the 7th of September.

I’ve shown a couple of people this idea that Julie and I have been developing for Holbeach – that of using RefWorks to manage a new-books list for the relatively small number of new titles that we receive each year at the campus LRC – and that can be embedded into Blackboard or a subject web page. [...]

Documentary evidence that L&LR staff really did attend the official opening of the National Centre for Food Manufacturing (the “Phase II” building) at Holbeach Campus, on Friday 27th March 2009… The building was opened by Sir Stuart Rose, chairman-executive of Marks & Spencer, and the event was attended by the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean of Riseholme College, [...]

Julie S. and I have also been working to get the level one module reading lists for all the HE Food & Agriculture awards (FdSc/BSc Food Manufacture, FdSc/BSc Agriculture & Environment, FdSc Commercial Horticulture) on to LibraryLink. Here they are: Communication And Numeracy For Working Learners Environmental Science Food Quality Assurance And Food Safety Food [...]

This is more of a departmental guideline than a tip… and it applies when writing for the Portal, Blackboard, etc., as well as for the blogs. Try and remember the other 3 campuses! If you’re writing for a Brayford audience about something which only applies to Lincoln, then make it clear in the story (and [...]

This is the induction presentation I’m using with my technology students (Computing, Games Computing, Audio/Media Technology etc.) this year. Feel free to copy/re-use any bits of it. And here’s Julie’s and my one that we use with new groups of Holbeach students: I embedded these presentations using slideshare.net Paul

Welcome to issue eleven of the Library and Learning Resources newsletter “The Buzz”. Many thanks to all the contributors and keep your ideas rolling in! Read on…