Induction
Each year I guess you try and learn from the mistakes you made the year before… you want one less person to nod off, one less person glazing over and one less person “Facebooking” (is this a verb yet?) for half an hour. I’m always really interested in how other subject librarians conduct inductions but there never seems to be much discussion about it. So, I thought I’d dump all my materials here and maybe someone might want to say something about them?
Here’s the presentation I’ve been using this year (best viewed full screen, as always):
It includes a video I made… yep, I’m a YouTube sensation:
Oh and I unashamedly ripped off a Ned Potter original and created an infograph as a “final word” type thing (click to enlarge):
That's me... Lex Rigby
September 28th, 2011 at 10:57 am
The University of Leeds has The Library Guide – http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/libraryguide/
I think the idea of it is to take the emphasis off subject librarians doing lots of inductions for students and instead get the students to do it on their own time, with librarian support if needed. Also gives everyone a standardised induction rather than different people doing different things.
Michelle
October 3rd, 2011 at 11:40 am
[...] all that much and kind of wished people had blogged about it more. After reading Lex Rigby’s post on library inductions I thought I’d best add my own thoughts and feelings on the topic, [...]