Services for teaching staff

The Learning Resource Centres are here to help support your course requirements.  Each subject area is supported by a subject librarian whose role is to ensure that your courses are fully suported.   Listed below are some examples of the type of support we can provide and the ways in which you can reciprocate to ensure a good quality service for all.  A full staff guide is also available to print out.

 

Making resources available

Setting up new courses

Embedding information skills

e-learning support

 

Making resources available

Please keep your Subject Librarian up to date with any course developments, reading lists and any other course documentation.  In return your Subject Librarian will:

 

  • Purchase resources for your courses, including books, ebooks, journals, multi-media and databases
  • Recommend new books and new editions for reading lists
  • Suggest materials for purchase
  • Recommend approriate loan solutions for books in high demand
  • Recommend solutions for the support of online or distance learning courses

 

Setting up new courses

When preparing new courses please remember to include in your budget calculations an estimate for the Learning Resource Centre resources your students will need.  Your Subject Librarian will be happy to help:

 

  • Cost up your proposed resources including books, DVDs, journals, databases and software packages
  • Suggest resources for the new course
  • Advise on journals & databases

 

Embedding information skills

The Learning Resource Centres provide a full information skills programme for students and staff.  We are especially keen to embed information skills into courses. 

 

You can book your students in for any of the following tutorials, just contact your LRC or subject librarian:

 

  • Welcome show & quiz
  • Finding and using books
  • Finding and using journal articles
  • Using and evaluating e-resources
  • Harvard referencing
  • Dissertation skills

 

E-learning support

Subject librarians are also able to help you with basic e-learning support.  So if you want to learn how to embed podcasts, videos, images and online games in your teaching and are not sure where to start please contact them.  Your Subject Librarian can also help you to:

 

  • Find ready made e-resources
  • Map e-resources to your curriculum
  • Add materials to Blackboard

 

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