Information Skills in the Northwest

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Information Skills in the Northwest

• Chrissie Turkington, JISC RSC Northwest
• Leo Appleton, West Cheshire College

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2005 RSC Customer Satisfaction Survey

• few respondents had thought about information
  skills training
• overall 31 of respondents Not Applicable

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Catalysts

• HEIs commenting on student lack of necessary
  information skills
• More available resources VTS, FPP, Tonic
• Regional Initiatives RISKIT, Wigan and Leigh
  College, EXPERTease
• National Initiatives Big Blue, i-skills,

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• What Information Skills service has the RSC
  Northwest been providing?

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2006 RSC Customer Satisfaction Survey

• The college has had an extensive information
  skills programme for five years. JISC has helped
  this develop through the JISC Collection and
  CHEST agreements. Without the RSC support visits
  and updating, we would not have known what new
  materials was available to support learners or
  been able to purchase it.

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Cliché sorry!
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JISCmail List what else!

• 51 subscribers across HE and FE
• http//www.jiscmail.ac.uk/nwis

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Del.icio.ushttp//del.icio.us/nwis
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http//moodle.rsc-northwest.ac.uk
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Present
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Stats

• 48 people on the Moodle Course
• Resources from 12 Colleges
• Two meetings (no. 3 tomorrow!)
• 9 attendees at meeting 1
• 16 attendees at meeting 2
• 4 Live Meeting training sessions

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The College View

• West Cheshire College -
• Part of Cheshire Circle of College Librarians
• Pro-active in e-resource facilitation within the
  college
• Interest in information skills provision
• Good curriculum links
• Keen to share good practice

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NWIS for colleges
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What does it mean for the colleges

• Platform for discussion with peers
• Increased interest in information skills within
  Learning Resources staff
• Sharing best practice
• Repository for information and study skills
  resources
• Saves time in session planning
• Online training opportunities
• Future collaborations

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• Chrissie Turkington
• JISC RSC Northwest
• ct_at_rsc-northwest.ac.uk
• Leo Appleton
• West Cheshire College
• l.appleton_at_west-cheshire.ac.uk