Our annual Learn and Laugh week is an opportunity for Oxford Brookes library staff to explore new things and new places. On a damp morning in May we were treated to a visit to Oxfordshire County Library. This is the county’s flagship library, and sits at the entrance to the Westgate centre in central Oxford. …
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Who are the Technology Engagement Group (TEG) and what have we been exploring?
The Technology Engagement Group (TEG) was originally launched by Richard Francis in 2015. TEG show-and-tell events allow participants to demonstrates and share technology and new tools. We usually do this via our Lunchbytes sessions. Lunchbytes are short, informal, lunchtime discussions of accessible new or lesser known technologies that might prove useful to staff and students. …
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The future for academic libraries? Initial observations from my US research.
My recent research visit to the east coast of the US was informative for my Doctorate of Education thesis (on Academic library makerspaces) but also generally in how academic libraries are evolving in North America in terms of their services generally. The two main libraries at the large university (over 35,000 students) I visited offer …
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