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NOWAL NEWSLETTER Winter 2018 NoWAL Newsletter Winter 2018 Chester’s Academic Library of the NoWAL Community Future of Practice success The Library at the University of Chester organised an away day for all Learning Neil Sprunt heads up NoWAL’s Resource Assistants over the summer, the aim of which was to think about how newly formed Copyright the library could add value to the student experience. Community of Practice and has very helpfully provided some As part of the event, staff were split into different teams and asked to build from insights into his first few months ‘in Lego what they thought would be the academic library of the future. Staff at office’. In his interview, he provides Chester took inspiration for their session from the workshop, facilitated by Kate lots of great examples of how to Holmes (then at the University of Manchester) at the 2017 NoWAL Conference. make a CoP work, including what he In particular, staff were asked to look at space in the library and how staff would thinks are the benefits of working be interacting with their users of the future. The teams were asked to document collaboratively in a cross- institutional group. their models using Padlet walls which were then uploaded to the library training webpages. You can read Neil’s interview in full Following the success of the event, future training events will run each term with here or on the NoWAL website. a dedicated annual away day for all Learning Resource Assistants. Did you know…? NoWAL now has 3 other Communities of Practice: - Academic Skills - Buildings & Space - Technology Photos courtesy of the University of Chester Contact Nicky if you would like to Note from NoWAL – it’s great to see a workshop at the NoWAL Conference join any of the CoPs or are directly influencing the work of our members! interested in finding out more. NOWAL NEWSLETTER | Winter 2018 2 Training & Development Celebrating NoWAL Programme Successes The T&D programme for 2018-2019 has loads of PTES and PRES survey results at the University of interesting events lined up. Use the events page on the Central Lancashire have shown improvement in all NoWAL website to keep on top of what’s planned for next Library related areas. year, book on events and see how you can get involved: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.nowal.ac.uk/events Liverpool Hope University library was awarded Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------ of the Year at the end of year University’s Green Impact Here’s our November 2018 to March 2019 Events: Awards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tour of Catalyst Building Royal Northern College of Music library won a Friday 23 Nov 2018 9:15 – 9:45 Teaching Award, enabling it to research and develop an IL Edge Hill University package that can be incorporated across all years & Strategic Marketing - Ned Potter Workshop courses. Friday 23 Nov 2018 10:00 – 4:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edge Hill University University of Bolton Library has seen a great improvement in the 2018 NSS results, up 6 points to 82% Research Support - Open Access / REF-Ready in Q19. Thursday 29 Nov 2018 10:00 – 1:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of Manchester University of Central Lancashire has been shortlisted in a record 5 categories for the Times Higher Awards. Tour of the Victoria Gallery & Museum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday 4 Dec 2018 10:30 – 11:30 / 12:00 Jennie Blake from University of Manchester Library Liverpool has been recognised for an outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession by being named as Supporting Student Wellbeing National Teaching Fellow for ‘My Learning Essentials’. Tuesday 4 Dec 2018 1:00 – 4:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of Liverpool Manchester Met University Library hosted a successful CSE monitoring visit and is hoping to retain its 4 Promoting Library Resources compliance+ awards plus another 4 compliance+ given. Wednesday 6 Feb 2019 1:00 – 4:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of Cumbria (Lancaster Campus) Royal Northern College of Music’s collaborative project ‘Paris-Manchester: 1918’ which incorporated TeachMeet - Playful Learning RNCM archival materials, has been nominated for Best Thursday 7 Mar 2019 10:00 – 1:00 Event in the 2018 Manchester Culture Awards. Edge Hill University (Manchester Campus) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liverpool John Moores University Library has been Understanding & Dealing with Change awarded 16 Compliance+ awards. Thursday 14 Mar 2019 10:00 – 4:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Liverpool Hope University Edge Hill University has won 2 Blackboard awards: 2018 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Inclusive Education and the Acquisitions Catalyst Award for Training & Professional Development Tuesday 19 March 2019 10:00 – 1:00 for their innovative use of Blackboard technology. University of Chester ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Strategy to Operations RNCM’s Archivist Heather Roberts was given an award Wednesday 27 Mar 2019 1:00 – 4:00 under the Principal’s Recognition Scheme for outstanding LJMU contribution to the work of the College. NOWAL NEWSLETTER | Winter 2018 3 Viv’s exhibition success Drawing the Modern Viv Bell, an Academic Skills Consultant in The Library at exhibition opens the University of Salford, has recently seen her hobby recognised in two major exhibitions. Viv saw a post on Manchester Metropolitan University Library has opened social media from artist Sarah Greaves, who was putting an exhibition entitled ‘Drawing the Modern: the Work of together an exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery, ‘The Gordon Hodkinson and Post-War Architectural Education Other in Mother’. in Manchester’. Viv Bell - photo courtesy of University of Salford Communications team Graphic courtesy of Manchester Metropolitan University The exhibition explored how motherhood changes women both physically and emotionally, and Greaves asked The exhibition draws on the archive of Gordon Hodkinson mothers to contribute images which they felt summed up (1928 - 2018), a student of architecture at Manchester life as a mum. Viv’s work featured in ‘The Library of Municipal School of Art in the 1940s - 1950s. Objects’, for which contributors submitted photographs of things that meant something to them. Viv’s contribution It explores post-war architectural education through a was a flannel “because I just feel like I’m constantly selection of Hodkinson’s drawings including sketches, washing and wiping and cleaning up after the children”. gouache rendered plans and construction details, as well as project briefs and lecture notes. Viv wrote an accompanying poem “about the different ways that you’re occupied once you become a mum; how The exhibition can be seen in the Special Collections th your needs come last as you try to put your child first, all Gallery until 5 April 2019 the washing and changing”. The Other in Mother ran at the Mosley Street gallery for Rathbone commemorations three days at the end of September. Photos courtesy of Victoria Gallery & Museum A joint University of Liverpool Special Collections & Archives (SCA) / Museums & Galleries exhibition on women’s rights campaigner and MP Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946), opened at the Victoria Gallery & Museum in Photo courtesy of Viv Bell October, using material from the Rathbone archive. Viv also has a piece in the 160th Anniversary Exhibition at The exhibition ‘Eleanor Rathbone – An Independent Stockport’s Vernon Park Art Gallery. The gallery put out an Woman, Suffragist, Politician & Social Reformer’ runs open call to artists, asking them to submit art on the until Saturday 6th April 2019. theme of the gallery’s anniversary, or related to 1858, the year the park opened. Viv’s submission was an acrylic Liverpool’s SCA will also be opening a related exhibition in painting of a flamingo (pictured below), which was a the Sydney Jones Library ‘A gift from Greenbank: popular animal for artists to depict in Victorian times. The reconstructing the Rathbone Library’ between October exhibition runs until Sunday, 4th November. 2018 and January 2019. NOWAL NEWSLETTER | Winter 2018 4 Manchester’s Big Book Move Salford’s UniSkills a great The University of Manchester Library reorganised success 775,000 books over the summer vacation – here’s Why and How! Why? The Knowing Your Customer (KYC) tracker report 2017, alongside ethnographic studies conducted by the Library , identified that 19% of students couldn’t find the UniSkills is the University of Salford library’s new online books they were looking for; 16% found the experience learning programme which a massive 1803 students have difficult; it could take up to 30 minutes for some students enrolled on in the first few weeks! to find a book. It offers a short self-paced online learning course that focuses on learning at university, finding information and studying effectively and ethically. As well as offering self-guided learning, UniSkills also allows students to collect digital badges while they progress through the course with the following digital badges awarded so far: The Big Book Move project was launched in February