Library Teach Meets: Low cost, high impact CPD CILIPS Annual Conference 2012 Sarah Kevill Laurie Roberts Sheila Williams

First Library Teach Meet in Scotland History Organisation Content Feedback

From Teach Meet to Library Teach Meet Originally teachers meeting to share ideas with other teachers ▫“built upon the coffee time idea” (Hall) 2 minute or 7 minute slots Opportunity to share successes and best practice Adopted by librarians in 2010

Organisation Group of volunteers Keen to use free resources to keep costs to a minimum Promotion and marketing Informal schedule

Content TopicIdea Helping drama students with referencing colour coding system devised Devising a better search strategy spot the mistakes exercise Keeping up to date / current awareness services using RSS feeds Brightening up a library induction session using the Cephalonian method Improving induction for jet lagged international students introducing the library crossword Incorporating interactivity in a library training session using an audience response system (classroom clickers) for instant feedback

Feedback Google Forms Well received and a success Ideas into practice

Suggested topics for next time

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References Birkwood, K. (2011) ‘What is TeachMeet?’ [Online] (Available at: teachmeet/ ) Accessed: 7 th June 2012) teachmeet/ Hall, D. (no date) ‘Dug Hall explains all about TeachMeet’ [Online] (Available at: ) Accessed: 7 th June