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Information Skills Workshops
(Image c/o markus spiske on Flickr.) I’ve banged on a little bit in the past about using Mentimeter as a live polling tool with students in my workshops – particularly in terms of crowd-sourcing...
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A little while ago I was approached by the Kent branch of CILIP to deliver a tour of my library and run a workshop similar to that which I ran at the NAG conference last year. I was a little bit...
View ArticleLISDIS: Community libraries and the digital divide
All being well, right about now I should be delivering a presentation at the first LISDIS conference about my dissertation on volunteer run libraries and the digital divide (turns out I posted this...
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Digital divide, Edward Snowden and MmIT
Image c/o meeshelle on Flickr. Just a quick post to prove that this blog still exists as a thing and hasn’t been completely forgotten about. Part of the reason for the forlorn nature of both my main...
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Promoting your library on Facebook and Instagram
Shake it like a Polaroid picture…or something. Image by Martin Martinsson on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) For a long time I’ve not really talked about Facebook Pages when I’ve been speaking at events and...
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Anatomy of a library induction teaser trailer
Image c/o Barbara Mazz on Flickr. A couple of days ago I had the idea of creating a short library induction advert for the start of the new year. The plan for the coming year in terms of social media...
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Creating video to promote library services
Image c/o Garret Voight on Flickr As I noted in a previous post, one of the things that we’ve really focused on over the summer in preparation for the coming year is putting together some fresh video...
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Using images and video on social media
As I’ve noted in previous posts, we’ve been working quite hard on our Instagram and YouTube presence over the past few weeks, to the extent that the former has now become one of our most important...
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Using Instagram in libraries…
Image c/o Colton Witt on Flickr. I’ve not been posting much on here this year (hello start of academic year), but that’s not to say that not much has been happening. Of course we launched our new...
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Doing a MOOC thing…on photography
I’m generally not one for signing up for online courses. I did one a little while back and although it was interesting, I don’t think I really gained a lot from it and I certainly wasn’t able to engage...
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