Cambridge Librarian TeachMeet

Today I’m at Umbrella 2011 , CILIP’s major library and information professional conference, presenting a poster about Library TeachMeets.  The poster will continue to be there on Wednesday, too, though I sadly can’t make it to the conference for its second day. If you’re reading this post because you saw the poster at the conference, welcome! Hopefully you [...]

Last week Isla Kuhn presented a paper about TeachMeets at the European Association for Health Information and Libraries workshop in Istanbul.

You can see the prezi that she used over on her blog, Musings of a Medical Librarian.

Yesterday Niamh and I spoke about LibTeachMeet at the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC ) at the British Library in London.  As part of the ‘New to teaching’ strand, we emphasised how TeachMeets are great for inexperienced teaching librarians to learn about different teaching tools and techniques, and to get some practice in speaking to a [...]

We had various questions and comments for our speakers in post it note form at the end of the evening. Here’s a quick round up, and if you didn’t raise your comment or query on the night, why not comment now? Liz Osman – no questions Anna Martin – no questions Sarah Pavey “Really interested to [...]

Feedback from our first TeachMeet indicated that people wanted more time to network, or, if that’s a word that makes you shudder, to meet new people and talk to them. We were keen to make space and time for that at the second TeachMeet, but we didn’t necessarily want just to have ‘empty’ time without [...]