All Outputs (31)

The political is personal: Brexit and the career aspirations of UK undergraduates (2019)
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Findings from a small-scale qualitative research project exploring the impact of Brexit on the career aspirations of final year students at a UK university reveal the centrality of values and emotion in career decision-making. Although not conclusive... Read More about The political is personal: Brexit and the career aspirations of UK undergraduates.

Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology (2017)
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This paper surveys the nascent experiments in political ecology underway in predominantly Kurdish areas of south-eastern Turkey, known as Bakûr, and Rojava (northern Syria). The Kurdish freedom movement is attempting to consolidate a social revolutio... Read More about Prospects for Kurdish ecology initiatives in Syria and Turkey: Democratic confederalism and social ecology.

Supporting research staff and postgraduates at the University of the West of England, Bristol: The growth of library research support (2017)
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In common with many other universities, the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE Bristol) has developed its library support for research staff and students to respond to the strategic objectives of the institution and the changing research... Read More about Supporting research staff and postgraduates at the University of the West of England, Bristol: The growth of library research support.

Supporting the library and information needs of UWE health and social care students on placement (2017)
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© 2017 Health Libraries Group Objective: The aim of this research was to explore the library and information needs of health and social care students whilst on placement. Methods: Both desk and primary research were conducted and included an online q... Read More about Supporting the library and information needs of UWE health and social care students on placement.

Skill up! Supporting academic success at UWE Bristol (2016)
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The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) Library Services launched Skill up!, a new online learning platform to support Academic Success in September 2015.

Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK (2015)
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© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - This paper outlines the aims, activities and outcomes of a project to pilot a reciprocal borrowing scheme between public and academic libraries using existing cards, i.e. public library cards in the acade... Read More about Open doors: Library cross-sector co-operation in Bristol, UK.

Value and Impact of Librarians' Interventions on Student Skills Development (2014)
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The research aimed to discover the perceived impact and to identify the value of four information skills teaching interventions within the curriculum in three faculties at the University of the West of England. Faculty and library staff interviews an... Read More about Value and Impact of Librarians' Interventions on Student Skills Development.

Scenario planning for an uncertain future?: Case study of the restructuring of the Academic Services team at UWE Library (2013)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study on the practical application of scenario planning techniques to complete a re-structuring of an academic liaison team within the Library at the University of the West of England in 2011. D... Read More about Scenario planning for an uncertain future?: Case study of the restructuring of the Academic Services team at UWE Library.

The inclusive library: An investigation into provision for students with dyslexia within a sample group of academic libraries in England and Wales (2013)
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The aim of this research was to investigate how the term inclusion can be applied to the support of dyslexic students within higher education in England and Wales. It explored the additional support services offered to dyslexic students by academic l... Read More about The inclusive library: An investigation into provision for students with dyslexia within a sample group of academic libraries in England and Wales.

The echoing greens: The neo-romanticism of earth first! and reclaim the streets in the U.K. (2013)
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Influenced by American naturalist William Bartram, Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge provided much of the literary heritage for American Transcendentalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and succeeding nature appreciators Henry David Thoreau and W... Read More about The echoing greens: The neo-romanticism of earth first! and reclaim the streets in the U.K..

Library readiness for research data management (2013)
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The paper describes work undertaken at UWE Bristol as part of a JISC funded project on research data management. The focus is on why librarians are so actively involved in research data management, the skills that they bring, and the development of a... Read More about Library readiness for research data management.

Repository metadata for diverse collections (2012)
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This article looks at the range of metadata standards that are used in multi-disciplinary institutional repositories. Using the UWE Research Repository as an example repository, the Dublin Core and DCMI metadata schemas are discussed, along with othe... Read More about Repository metadata for diverse collections.

Student perceptions of staff in the Information Commons: A survey at the University of Sheffield (2011)
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Purpose: Technology has transformed teaching and learning environments in tertiary education, introducing new collaborative library spaces and developing the roles and skills of library staff. Academic libraries need continually to re-examine their s... Read More about Student perceptions of staff in the Information Commons: A survey at the University of Sheffield.

Establishing dialogues between new and experienced LIS professionals (2011)
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A survey of experienced LIS professionals was carried out in order to discover some of their perceptions of new LIS professionals. The results demonstrate the need for new professionals to establish dialogues with their experienced colleagues, and so... Read More about Establishing dialogues between new and experienced LIS professionals.

Developing work-based learning for library and information science (2010)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to disseminate information about the development of a work-based learning (WBL) honours degree top-up in Library and Information Sciences (LIS), focusing on the motivation for this development. Design/methodology... Read More about Developing work-based learning for library and information science.

Practitioner involvement in teaching LIS at UWE (2010)
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Purpose: This paper aims to review the practitioner-based teaching model for the MSc in Information and Library Management (ILM) at the University of the West of England (UWE). With input from students, practitioners and academics it considers the ad... Read More about Practitioner involvement in teaching LIS at UWE.

'An absolute prerequisite': The importance of user privacy and trust in maintaining academic freedom at the library (2010)
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This research investigated the importance of user-library trust in ensuring vital freedom of inquiry in academic libraries, exploring its strength through comparison with attitudes towards the National Identity Card Scheme (NICS) within the various l... Read More about 'An absolute prerequisite': The importance of user privacy and trust in maintaining academic freedom at the library.

“E-books are good if there are no copies left”: a survey of e-book usage at UWE Library Services (2009)
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This article outlines research carried out with students and academic staff at a large UK university library on how e-books are being used for learning, teaching and research. It was discovered that e-books are meeting many of users’ needs,especially... Read More about “E-books are good if there are no copies left”: a survey of e-book usage at UWE Library Services.

The emergence of psychoecology: The new nature writings of Roger Deakin, Mark Cocker, Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey (2009)
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Librarianship education, employability and equality (2007)
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