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LR Forum – South Eastern Regional College

11 February 2009

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LR ForumLR Forum10:00 Registration and Tea/Coffee

10.20 Welcome and Introductions

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10.30 The e-Books for FE Project – participation in the consultation; a practical approach to making Northern Ireland’s input.Mike Moran – e-Books Project Board Member

10:45 News Exchange Among LR Staff – An opportunity for delegates to exchange news on LR developments and activities in colleges

11.10 Using NLN Materials on the Web – NLN Materials have moved from their former mode of delivery from college servers to a web-based service. This session will show you how to set up and log on to an account – and provide time for you to explore content.

Mike Moran - RSCni11.45 Using Intute for Sourcing Materials for Teaching – when we last

presented intute it was in the early stages of its conversion from RDN. It has now grown to cover 65 subject areas and has built a large number of new facilities. This session will focus on exploring the subject-based items.

Participants – assisted by Mike Moran

12.30 LUNCH

13.15 Using Intute for Expanding Your LR Services– This session will be a practical exploration of the important features that LR staff can use to develop their resources and to assist lecturers and students. This will include: how to integrate it into your VLE; using Intute for induction; using the Virtual Training Suite.

Participants – assisted by Mike Moran14.30 Plans for next Session and Close

Programme

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JISC e-Books for FE Project Objectives

• Procurement• Stimulation of the e-Books Market• Embedding in Teaching and Learning

Actions• Provide FE colleges with access to a core collection of e-books on

an e-books platform• Host a Core Collection of e-books for the FE community and

provide search and access facility• Funded from August 2009 – July 2011• JISC Collections will put in place a Framework Agreement to allow

colleges to select and buy licences for additional books – available on the same platform

• From July 2009 JISC Collections to monitor the usage of the Core Collection and additional books and use stats to proactively inform embedding of e-books

Tender Components• Lot 1 – the e-Books Platform• Lot 2 – The Core Collection• Lot 3 – A Core Collection of Relevance to NI, Wales and Scotland• Lot 4 – JISC Collections e-Books Top 100 for Framework

Agreement

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JISC e-Books for FE Project Main Milestones

• Consultation with FE Community re short listed bids – Jan–Feb 2009• Award tenders – 04 Mar 2009• Sign licences with successful bidder – 04 May 2009• Promotion of e-books service – May–Sep 2009• Start usage analysis – Jul 2009• Final report on analysis of use – Oct 2010• Final Project Board meeting and close – Jul 2011

Your Part (and that of Teachers) in All of This• Identify suitable titles for NI – and UK books to be considered for the

Framework Agreement • Respond to consultation By Friday 13 February 2009• Participate in Publicity and Roadshow activities May – Jun 2009

The Project Board’s Next Steps• Board will meet on Wed 25 Feb 2009• Consultation responses will have been collated • The pattern emerging will be used – with other factors such as price –

to choose the most suitable supplier

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The next part of the programme follows shortly…

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News Exchange Among LR Staff

– How are things going with Federated Access?– Does anyone need further help with this?– What is the situation regarding LMS?– Any proposed changes in the way that your

LR services will be delivered?– What training needs do you and your

colleagues have? RSCni feedback from the TNA.

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Using NLN Materials from the webUsing NLN Materials from the web

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Information and SupportInformation and Support

Exploring furtherExploring further

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A menu of learning objectsA menu of learning objects

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Inside a single LOInside a single LO

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Topic 1: Call about a flat - AimsTopic 1: Call about a flat - Aims

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The end of Topic 1The end of Topic 1

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Exploring other LOsExploring other LOs

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Your tasks are:

•Go to the site www.nln.ac.uk and create an account for yourself – based on your college email address•Search for and find one LO at each of two different levels•Add both of them to your Collections•Find the unique URL for your two Los and email it to a colleague back at your college (or elsewhere)

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Using intuteUsing intute

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The Home Page

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Arts and Humanities Home Page

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Science, Engineering and Technology Home Page

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Searching for records in

intute

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Searching for records in intute

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Searching for records in intute

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… and the first of these 30 records is:

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Advanced searching

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Storing searches in MyIntute1.No searches stored yet

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Storing searches in MyIntute2.Stored searches

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Storing searches in MyIntute3.Storing records from searches

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The Virtual Training Suite and the Links Basket

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VTS: Fashion and Beauty

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VTS: Fashion and Beauty

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Support Materials

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Here’s an example of what one library has done to integrate intute

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Your tasks are:

•Go to the site www.intute.ac.uk and create a MyIntute account for yourself – based on your college email address•Search for and find one record from each of two different subject categories•Store both of them in your MyIntute•Find a PowerPoint presentation from the Support Materials area and adapt the contents for use as an induction to Intute – for either students or staff in your college (add your college logo if you wish)•Find out about and comply with the Creative Commons licence of intute in your presentation•Email the finished presentation to a colleague back at your college (or elsewhere)

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That’s the end of the programme …

Any final questions?

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Plans for the next session…

The RSCni Annual Conference will take place on02 April 2009 @ NWRC

The next LR Forum will be on Tue 12 May 2009

And our evaluation of this event will be online. We’ll be sending you this link to it:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=vPrjwHkyb9hrbTALLtcvWQ_3d_3d .