1. TeachMeet:
Librarians
learning
from
each
other
http://btnlibtm.info/
Niamh Tumelty· @niamhpage | Katie Birkwood · @girlinthe
English Faculty Library, University of Cambridge | Cambridge University Library
#btnlibtm
LILAC, Monday 18 April 2011
25 May 2011, University of Brighton
2. The idea has spread…
LibTeachMeets so far:
Cambridge, 27 September 2010
Huddersfield, 9 February 2011
Cambridge, 29 March
Newcastle, 4 May
Brighton, 25 May
Liverpool, 26 May
London, 20 June
Sheffield, 10 November
Ideas in the pipeline:
Oxford, Bournemouth, Leicester. http://flic.kr/p/6sK4Hc
Portsmouth…
5. Rules
2- or 5-minute presentations
Something you’ve tried yourself
No sales pitches
PowerPoint?
http://flic.kr/p/8tYKQ
6. Rules
2- or 5-minute presentations
Something you’ve tried yourself
No sales pitches
Anyone can speak
Order chosen at random
No hierarchy, no keynotes
http://flic.kr/p/8tYKQ
7. Rules
2- or 5-minute presentations
Something you’ve tried yourself
No sales pitches
Anyone can speak
Order chosen at random
No hierarchy, no keynotes
http://flic.kr/p/8tYKQ
8. And Library TeachMeets
….are not yet one year old
From an original idea by Isla Kuhn:
http://ilk21.wordpress.com/
2010/07/03/teach-meet/
Fit well with
Information literacy
Tight budgets
personal
institutional
Social media
Easy to present
Lots of networking
9. Development
17th March: I blogged about
Niamh Tumelty’s CILIP Update
article:
Teachmeet goes to the seaside
People commented, e-mailed,
tweeted
#btnlibtm born
Date fixed: 25th May, 5 pm
Place: University of Brighton
Website set up at
http://www.brightonlibtm.info/
10. Publicity
Audience:
Local lis people/shambrarians
Commuters
E-mails to great and good
Mailing lists: lis-link, lis-profession, CILIP
Sussex list, lis-info-literacy
CILIP Sussex sub-branch
New professionals network
Twitter
Spruz Librarians as Teachers network
E-mails to selected staff in the major local
libraries, UoB library school
The website
12. The programme 1
5.00 – 5.20 Refreshments and chit-chat
5.20 – 5.30 Welcome to Brighton
LibTeachMeet
Presentations 5.30-6.00
5.30-5.35 Sarah Ison – Using Skype with
media students
5.35-5.40 Chris Jones – Music Query
Analysis, or, Don’t Get the Blues When
You’re Asked About the Blues!
5.40-5.45 Siobhan Duvigneau – Teaching
Boolean using an experiential learning
technique
5.45-5.50 Dina Koutsomichali – Online
participation systems
5.50-5.55 Emma Walton – Reaching Out:
Widening participation for Schools at Sussex
5.55-6.00 Helen Webb – Research Hive
13. The programme 2
6.00-6.20 Cake and chit-chat
Presentations 6.20-6.50
6.20-6.25 Katie Piatt – Google forms
6.25-6.30 Chloe Barnes – Communicating
with US
6.30-6.35 Joseph Norwood and Ka-Ming
Pang – Peer to peer online engagement
6.35-6.40 Steve Holden – Instapaper – an
offline reader
6.40-6.45 Helen Westwood – Upgrade at City
6.45-6.50 Chris Keene – Resource Discovery:
two worlds colliding
6.50-7.00 Feedback, thank yous and
goodbyes
14. We sold out!
Thirty attendees, fifteen on
waiting list
People came from London,
Portsmouth, Southampton…
15. Feedback
Evaluations received from 20
participants
All 20 would come to another
#btnlibtm
13 would speak at another
#btnlibtm
8 would help organise
‘Intense’
Four people had never been so
happy in their lives
16. What people liked
Meeting colleagues from Sussex/IDS
Lighting style of talks, practical ideas. networking with local colleagues
buzz and enthusiastic presenters
good time keeping, pace, variety of presenters, informality
Snapping, interesting presentations, hearing other people's good ideas, informal
atmosphere
The range of presentations and the format
Hearing what other institutions/organisations are doing, in a fairly informal way was
inspiring and encouraging
meeting people genuinely excited by their job and profession
the format is great and it's wonderful to see the 'small' stuff people are doing that you can
adopt and use. I mean small as in you wouldn't do a conference presentation about say
Google Forms but it was incredibly useful to hear about!
It was intense in terms of new ideas. The cakes were good too.
Fun atmosphere; wide range of topics; opportunity to meet people
A chance to hear about "stuff" that you wouldn't ordinarily come across
The variety of ideas; the short presentation time, which made presenters strip out the
superfluous and get to the bones of their subject however...
opened up a whole new world of IT that I was unaware of and the lovely cakes.
all of it
Finding out about new innovations. Meeting like minded people.
The innovative delivery style; variety of topics covered; networking opportunities
Informality, length of presentations perfect
variety and enthusiasm of speakers
Speakers were informative and had some very useful ides. Also, the jam & Nutella cakes
were excellent!
17. What people disliked
Venue:
Space
Travel
‘The opening slide said 'Librarians
sharing...' which made me sad as I'm
not a librarian ;-{‘
‘Very library focused (clue was in the
name)! It re-inforced my desire to set
up an IT-based meet ‘
Better name badges
Time keeping too strict
19. Hashtags, etc
#LibTeachM is the hashtag for
all things LibTeachMeet
Individual event tags:
#camlibtm, #hudteachmeet,
#toonlibtm, #livlibtm, #imeetdmu,
#ldnlibtm, #btnlibtm
Archive at http://
twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/
btnlibtm
Google calendar:
21. With thanks
Cambridge LibTeachMeet (the original,
accept no imitations), especially
Niamh Tumelty @niamhpage
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe
Thomas Meehan @orangeaurochs
Emma Illingworth @wigglesweets
All who presented at and attended
#btnlibtm
22. TeachMeet:
Librarians
learning
from
each
other
http://camlibtm.info / Katie| Cambridge University Library
Niamh Tumelty· @niamhpage | info@camlibtm.info
English Faculty Library, University of Cambridge
Birkwood · @girlinthe
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