spree sose 2007 titel feedback : me and english for librarians

Spree SoSe 2007

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Feedback : Me and English for Librarians

Your ExperiencesArbeitsschritteW

Seminar I-Prax: Inhaltserschließung visueller Medien, 5.10.2004Spree SoSe 2007

• Between 2 and 9 years of English at school

• Occasional visits in GB or USA

• Meeting people from abroad at work / at the student‘s hall

• Classes in English for special purposes (Business English)

• reading English books and watching English films

• working with scholarly literature

• surfing the Internet

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• Communication with customers at varying situtations at work

• Negotiating with customers / consulting customers

• Explaining library related topics to customers

• Speaking English to non English native speakers

• At the telephone

• Travel – dealing with official authorities

• Surfing the internet

• Reading academic texts

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• culture and media:

•Leseförderung (reading promotion) / reading encouragement information literacy

•Library work for/with children

• teaching library / user instruction

• Public relation

• Information research

• HTML / designing webpages

• IT / screendesign

• Management of information services

• Knowledge Organization

• Content management / inventory control / collection management / stock management

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• Writing formal letters

• to learn different techniques to approach and translate English technical literature

• business and administration related vocabulary

• fiction (literature)

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• I vocabulary which is needed in counselling users of libraries and I want to get better skills in understanding articles of professional journals.

• At least I would like to learn more about media and culture

• user studies

• Media system in English speaking countries

• Communicating successfully and professionally with customers at the library

• dealing with difficult clients/customers

• grammar

• reading and communication practice

Useful words ArbeitsschritteW


Vocabulary:

Benutzerforschung User studies

effects research

reception studies

Bestandsmanagement Collection management

stock management

Leseförderung reading encouragement

Katalogisierung cataloguing

indexing

Praxissemester internship

practical placement

Wissensorganisation Knowledge Organization

Hidden information - what did the answers teach me about your needs (I)

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Grammar – can you spot the mistake? •Basic skills were teachedwere teached

•After my degree I have doneI have done an apprenticehip …

• When I passedI passed the holidays in Ireland with my boyfriend last year, there had beenthere had been another situation,

•I would like workinglike working abroad

•SinceSince 2006 I have workedI have worked at a company (she is still doing it !!)

•This has happenedhas happened a long time ago.

•Last year I choosechoose the right topic.

•After my schooldays I don’t needI don’t need English skills

•I am interestinginteresting in children

•Courses which dealsdeals

Hidden information - what did the answers teach me about your needs (II)

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Short for words?

At work I can see that very carefully

In a few cases it is necessary for good results to research in

the abroad.

False friends

A pair from America

I missed some words

Scientific library

A land where I don‘t understand the language

How I changed my concept after having read your essays

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• Having fun, encourage everyday chatting

• Help for selfhelp

• Regular grammar feed

• creating tasks for different levels

• topics concerning media and communication, academic life

• special focus on library terminology during the „Blockseminar“

Training tips

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Grammar Excercises:

Since and for: http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/vocabulary/since-for

Dictionaries and glossaries:

ODLIS – Online Dictionary for library and information science

http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_e.cfm

Bibliotheks-Glossar

http://www.cyboerg.de/glossar/

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/vocabulary/since-for

http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_e.cfm

http://www.cyboerg.de/glossar/

Training tips

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Library Vocabulary

Study any English Library Website you like, all the vocabulary is there

Manchester Central Library

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/Libraries/central/

John Rylands University Library

http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/

Reading promotion / bookstart

http://www.bookstart.co.uk/

Consult LIS-School Websites for specialized vocabulary

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/faculty

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/Libraries/central/

http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/

http://www.bookstart.co.uk/

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/faculty

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