Teachmeetcilipthamesvalley

TeachMeet: Librarians learning from each other

Niamh Tumelty· @niamhpage | Katie Birkwood · @girlinthe English Faculty Library, University of Cambridge | Cambridge University Library

LILAC, Monday 18 April 2011

http://btnlibtm.info/ #btnlibtm

25 May 2011, University of Brighton

The idea has spread…

 LibTeachMeets so far:  Cambridge, 27 September 2010  Huddersfield, 9 February 2011  Cambridge, 29 March  Newcastle, 4 May  Brighton, 25 May  Liverpool, 26 May  London, 20 June  Sheffield, 10 November

 Ideas in the pipeline:  Oxford, Bournemouth, Leicester. Portsmouth…

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Teachmeets

 Have just celebrated their fifth anniversary  Unconference  Informal  Emphasis on sharing

Rules

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Rules

 2- or 5-minute presentations  Something you’ve tried yourself  No sales pitches  PowerPoint?


Rules

 2- or 5-minute presentations  Something you’ve tried yourself  No sales pitches

 Anyone can speak  Order chosen at random  No hierarchy, no keynotes


And Library TeachMeets  ….are not yet one year old  From an original idea by Isla Kuhn: http://ilk21.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/teach-meet/

 Fit well with  Information literacy  Tight budgets

 personal  institutional

 Social media  Easy to present  Lots of networking

Development

 17th March: I blogged about Niamh Tumelty’s CILIP Update article:

 Teachmeet goes to the seaside  People commented, e-mailed, tweeted

 #btnlibtm born  Date fixed: 25th May, 5 pm  Place: University of Brighton  Website set up at http://www.brightonlibtm.info/

Publicity   Audience:

 Local lis people/shambrarians  Commuters

  E-mails to great and good   Mailing lists: lis-link, lis-profession, CILIP

Sussex list, lis-info-literacy   CILIP Sussex sub-branch   New professionals network   Twitter   Spruz Librarians as Teachers network   E-mails to selected staff in the major local

libraries, UoB library school   The website

Organisation

 Booking by Eventbrite  Speakers:

 Eleven presentations  Twelve speakers  One guitar  PowerPoint, Prezi, live web, music

 Cake by Emma (© all rights reserved by sarahjison)

The programme 1   5.00 – 5.20 Refreshments and chit-chat   5.20 – 5.30 Welcome to Brighton

LibTeachMeet   Presentations 5.30-6.00   5.30-5.35 Sarah Ison – Using Skype with

media students 5.35-5.40 Chris Jones – Music Query Analysis, or, Don’t Get the Blues When You’re Asked About the Blues! 5.40-5.45 Siobhan Duvigneau – Teaching Boolean using an experiential learning technique 5.45-5.50 Dina Koutsomichali – Online participation systems 5.50-5.55 Emma Walton – Reaching Out: Widening participation for Schools at Sussex 5.55-6.00 Helen Webb – Research Hive

The programme 2   6.00-6.20 Cake and chit-chat   Presentations 6.20-6.50   6.20-6.25 Katie Piatt – Google forms

6.25-6.30 Chloe Barnes – Communicating with US 6.30-6.35 Joseph Norwood and Ka-Ming Pang – Peer to peer online engagement 6.35-6.40 Steve Holden – Instapaper – an offline reader 6.40-6.45 Helen Westwood – Upgrade at City 6.45-6.50 Chris Keene – Resource Discovery: two worlds colliding

  6.50-7.00 Feedback, thank yous and goodbyes

We sold out!

 Thirty attendees, fifteen on waiting list

 People came from London, Portsmouth, Southampton…

Feedback

 Evaluations received from 20 participants  All 20 would come to another #btnlibtm

 13 would speak at another #btnlibtm

 8 would help organise  ‘Intense’  Four people had never been so happy in their lives

What people liked   Meeting colleagues from Sussex/IDS   Lighting style of talks, practical ideas. networking with local colleagues   buzz and enthusiastic presenters   good time keeping, pace, variety of presenters, informality   Snapping, interesting presentations, hearing other people's good ideas, informal

atmosphere   The range of presentations and the format   Hearing what other institutions/organisations are doing, in a fairly informal way was

inspiring and encouraging   meeting people genuinely excited by their job and profession   the format is great and it's wonderful to see the 'small' stuff people are doing that you can

adopt and use. I mean small as in you wouldn't do a conference presentation about say Google Forms but it was incredibly useful to hear about!

  It was intense in terms of new ideas. The cakes were good too.   Fun atmosphere; wide range of topics; opportunity to meet people   A chance to hear about "stuff" that you wouldn't ordinarily come across   The variety of ideas; the short presentation time, which made presenters strip out the

superfluous and get to the bones of their subject however...   opened up a whole new world of IT that I was unaware of and the lovely cakes.   all of it   Finding out about new innovations. Meeting like minded people.   The innovative delivery style; variety of topics covered; networking opportunities   Informality, length of presentations perfect   variety and enthusiasm of speakers   Speakers were informative and had some very useful ides. Also, the jam & Nutella cakes

were excellent!

What people disliked  Venue:

 Space  Travel

  ‘The opening slide said 'Librarians sharing...' which made me sad as I'm not a librarian ;-{‘

  ‘Very library focused (clue was in the name)! It re-inforced my desire to set up an IT-based meet ‘

 Better name badges  Time keeping too strict

Next time?

 Broader organisation  More public, school, NHS people  Funding  More focus on teaching?  Time, venue  Photos  Pub

Hashtags, etc

 #LibTeachM is the hashtag for all things LibTeachMeet  Individual event tags:

 #camlibtm, #hudteachmeet, #toonlibtm, #livlibtm, #imeetdmu, #ldnlibtm, #btnlibtm

 Archive at http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/btnlibtm

 Google calendar:

With thanks

 Cambridge LibTeachMeet (the original, accept no imitations), especially  Niamh Tumelty @niamhpage  Katie Birkwood @girlinthe  Thomas Meehan @orangeaurochs

 Emma Illingworth @wigglesweets

 All who presented at and attended #btnlibtm

TeachMeet: Librarians learning from each other


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