Further mutations of the health librarian: implementing an Academic Skills St...
Kuhn2011
1. TeachMeet:
librarians learning from each other
Isla Kuhn
Reader Services Librarian, Cambridge University Medical Library
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
MEDICAL LIBRARY
2. TeachMeet – what?
• An ‘unconference’: By teachers, for teachers
• Focussed on sharing ideas: Practical, helpful, inspiring
• Everyone participates
• Everyone learns
• 2- or 7-minute presentations
• Anyone can speak
• No obligation to pay attention
3. TeachMeet - why wouldn't you?
• Quick and cheap
o To attend…
o …and to organise
• Share ideas
o What worked? What didn’t?
• Opportunity to present
• Networking
5. Camlibtm: 27th
September 2010
• 50 Booked up
• 40 Turned up
• 11 Spoke up (youtube & slideshare)
• “…an interesting, informative, fun and friendly evening.”
• “I was thrilled that it was so informal and so
unhierarchical”
• “There was a real variety of presentations, so plenty of
food for thought, some of which I took away to look at
possibly adopting.”
6. Camlibtm: 27th
September 2010
• Venue
o Too big / too small
• Talks
o Too long / too short
o Friendly / too informal
• When to have it?
o Weekend / weekday
o Full day / half day
• Networking
o More please!
7. Camlibtm #2: 29th
March 2011
• 60 Booked up (in a day!)
• 55 Turned up (much broader mix)
• 10 Spoke up (youtube & slideshare)
• Networking bingo
• [how did it live up to your expectations?]
Very well ! It was an amazing experience and I took back a lot of useful
information and new contacts. It was good to have videos available on
YouTube so I could use those to explain to people what I meant.
8. LibTeachMeets have happened in:
• Cambridge (27.09.10,
29.03.11)
• Huddersfield (09.02.11)
• Newcastle (04.05.11)
• Brighton (25.05.11)
• Liverpool (26.05.11)
• Leicester (14.06.11)
• London (20.06.11)
LibTeachMeets are coming up in:
• Stirling & Inverness (20.07.11)
• Bedfordshire (21.07.11)
• Sheffield (10.11.11)
• Oxford (tbc)
google teachmeet calendar: http://tinyurl.com/tm-google-calendar
9. TeachMeet – grow your own
• People
• Venue
• Date / time
• Web presence
• Funding
• Cake!
