Professional Development & Training

Weren't able to make it to the AskAway sponsored sessions at the BC Library Conference this year? No worries! Marie Radford's powerpoint slides are now available on the Staff Portal:
Staff Tools --> Training
Effective Reference Encounters: Drawing from her extensive research into reference interactions, Marie presented tips and tricks for making the most of your in-person or virtual reference encounter.

A recording of the presentation: Using Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews is now available.
Here is the link:
https://present.bccampus.ca/p19213917/
Please note! The audio portion of the recording is complete. However, the software records it in "chunks", meaning that it sometimes sounds as if the sound has been cut off. There is a slight pause between the chunks, but the audio starts up at exactly the same place as it stopped.

Jing <http://www.jingproject.com/> is a free, online tool that can be used to record a quick tutorial for a student and share it with them instantly. It's a great way to insert that instructional component into your AskAway sessions. Here's a great example of Jing in use:
"A Kwantlen student was very much a rookie, Biomed central had lots on Insite, it was 8;45 so I used Jing, she was able to view it. That is one cool tool…"

An interesting article about this generation of students and how they work from Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society...
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/02/digital
- Sunni
BC ELN

Hi everyone!
Due to some unfortunate technical problems, the recordings of the last 2 brown-bag presentations, "Orientation to the (new) UBC website" and "Fine Arts Resources" are not yet available.
In the meantime, you may be interested in Neill's Fine Arts Resources wiki, which he demostrated during his presentation.
My apologies for the delay!
-Niki

The recording of the Brown-bag presentation: Mining BC's Subject Guides is now available on the Librarians' Portal.
To access it, go to:
http://eln.bc.ca/askaway/?page=recordings#subject
Or, on the Librarians' Portal, go to the Professional Development tab, then click on "Recordings of Previous Sessions".

Want to know more about your patrons? To learn more about statistics available to you, check out the latest brown bag presentation: AskAway Statistics for Administrators.
Even if you don't have an administrator account, you can access some of the statistics that are described.
A recording of the presentation, as well as a table of contents and the associated handout, are available here:
http://eln.bc.ca/askaway/?page=recordings#technical

Next week's Brown-bag presentation will be on the topic: AskAway Statistics for Administrators.
Want to know how many of your patrons are using AskAway? When they are using it? Why they are using it? What type of student they are? This session will be of interest to library administrators who want to find out more about how their students are using AskAway.
Sunni will walk you through the who, what, when, where and whys for your institution's patrons, showing you how to access statistics from within the QP module and on the Portal.

The recording of the Brown-bag presentation: Orientation to the Kwantlen University College Library Website is now available on the Librarians' Portal.
To access it, go to:
http://eln.bc.ca/askaway/?page=recordings#tours
Or, on the Librarians' Portal, go to the Professional Development tab, then click on "Recordings of Previous Sessions".

Hi everyone!
Next week's Brown-bag presentation will be on the topic: Orientation to the Kwantlen University College Library Website.
Time: Thursday, Feb 7, 2:15-2:45pm
A recording will be made for those unable to attend at that time.
For system requirements and other info, please go to:
http://www.eln.bc.ca/askaway/index.php?page=prodevelopment
Also, please note that if you were unable to attend the OvidSP presentation, the recording is available at: