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 [...]

Futureproof: making libraries indispensable to learning, teaching and research, University of Exeter, 21-23 June 2010.

Finally I’m locked away in my cute little room (just like when I was a 1st year student) somewhere in Exeter (not like when I was a 1st year student) to start thinking about some of the day’s activities. It was [...]

The first couple of weeks of term are always the busiest for an academic librarian, mainly because it’s the god awful induction time of year. To be fair I got off quite lightly by only seeing about 300 students, but of the sessions I did a couple of those were to over 100 at a [...]