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Learning and Teaching Conference.
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The final day of our RCS staff Learning and Teaching Conference saw a variety of updates from different departments. Information Services took their turn after lunch. We thought we'd just share with our readers some of the library highlights.
The All-Singing,All-Dancing Catalogue
We
have a shiny new catalogue! Catherine demonstrated it, and showed
colleagues the magnificent capabilities of Catalogue Plus, which
searches online resources as well as books, music and other resources on
shelves. It
has to be said that the catalogue now looks much better - but the
differences may take a little getting used to, so please do ask for help
if you can't find something that you were sure is in stock!
We'd also like to remind Conservatoire students and colleagues about the library's Portal pages - find us under Information Services – you'll find library guides, copyright info, referencing, effective learning guides, offsite access guides, and more.
Help with introducing suitable online resources
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Whittaker Library staff do library tours (orientation), and talk to first years about catalogue and e-resources. In both cases, we can only give a quick overview, to avoid information overload. Little and often is better than one big demo and then no more. We're very happy to offer more help at point of need eg first assignment, first essay etc. Ask us!
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Pedagogically – we're happy to do demos, but we also embrace active or collaborative learning. For example, we're happy to meet classes in an IT lab, or devise paired exercises looking up learning resources on students' own mobile devices. And we’re open to suggestions for other ways of getting info across in a flipped classroom kind of way.
Referencing - The Effective Learning team is available three times a week, Tues 12-2, Weds 12-2 and Fri 4-6). The team's very useful handouts are on Portal – on the library pages. Additionally, the librarians are happy to help with referencing queries if the Effective Learning team aren’t around. We can talk about referencing to individuals or groups as required. Ask us!
Bibliographic Citation Software - A WARNING! Have you been collecting your references on the RefMe software? It was easy and accessible to use, so lots of people adopted it. However, not long ago, it was absorbed into CiteThisForMe. Now, the choice is this: pay a subscription, or you can only keep your references for one week. And then it's gone. [Pause to let that sink in - it's a scary thought!]
Mendeley and Zotero are reliable and long-established resources, and you can use them for free. RCS students and colleagues are welcome to speak to us if you'd like help getting started.
Subject Queries - The library has three Performing Arts Librarians, with different specialisms. Please do get in touch directly or send a message to library@rcs.ac.uk if you have a general query.
Colleagues at our RCS Learning and Teaching Conference - now you're inspired and fired up to go, why not borrow some of our learning and teaching resources from the library? Here's what comes up in our catalogue under "Teaching AND Learning" (click here).
And here are a couple of podcasts by the inspirational "Real David Cameron":-
Next week, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is holding a Learning and Teaching Conference for staff. The Whittaker Library's subject librarians are champing at the bit to share all the latest electronic resources with their academic colleagues at special sessions on Wednesday 17th September.
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Dip Your Toe in the Water!
It’s good practice to set training sessions in context by giving attendees a chance to think about what’s coming up in the session, before the session actually takes place. So we're encouraging our colleagues to take a look at the Library's e-resources page.
In the music session, Catherine will be focusing on Alexander Street Press (Music Online Premium, or MOP) and Naxos; and Karen will be talking about JSTOR and RILM, with a brief mention of Oxford Music. Before the session, colleagues are encouraged to try searching for something that's bound to get results, like Mendelssohn, or Kodaly.
Meanwhile, Alan will be giving a simultaneous session for drama and dance specialists. The e-resources can all be found on the same page, whichever RCS department staff are attached to.
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Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage (click HERE)
This is a quick introductory session – hopefully we'll have our colleagues swimming in the cyber-sea of electronic resources before they know it!
The final day of our RCS staff Learning and Teaching Conference saw a variety of updates from different departments. Information Services took their turn after lunch. We thought we'd just share with our readers some of the library highlights.
