Information Literacy on a shoestring: Using a ‘Whole Team’ approach to developing in-house resources

Jess HaighFormerly Subject Librarian, Leeds City CollegeCurrently Subject Librarian, University of Huddersfield

j.m.haigh@hud.ac.uk@bookelfleeds

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This photo, “scared cat”, is copyright © 2010 Bill Kuffrey and made available under a Attribution 2.0 Generic licence.

So many students, so little time…

This photo ‘Smarties, squared circle’ is copyright © 2006 Alexandre Duret and is used under an Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licence

Why Make A Resource Together?

Each activity looked at a different resource on the Library Intranet site

• E-resources such as Ebrary and Infotrac

• The Library Catalogue• Journals

Not subject specific

Could be used in classroom, but also externally, or in the Library itself

Used audio and written instructions.

The Good Bits…

• Information Literacy• Research Skills• ‘Compare and contrast’

• Team loved inventing characters

• Brought the team together

• Was cheap to produce