News of our past meetings and events...
Annual General Meeting 2011, Friday 14th October 2011 CILIP HQ
Time: 3pm - 5pm
Theme: Web Safety, followed by AGM
Speakers: Anne Rowlands
Join us for our AGM to find about how one institution is looking at issues of web safety in the context of digital literacy and share your own initiatives and experiences. Anne Rowlands will also be addressing the meeting about CoFHE's proposed merger plans with UC&R.
Plan for the afternoon:
3pm: Welcome
3.05pm: Web safety
4pm: Coffee break
4.20pm: AGM (to include news from Anne Rowlands, CoFHE LASEC Annual and Treasurer Reports, Committee Elections)
5pm: end
Cost: FREE
Reserve your place by emailing email Christina Harbour, CoFHE LASEC secretary, at christina.harbour@writtle.ac.uk
Information Literacy + TeachMeet with Jane Secker, Lisa Jeskins and Sarah Pavey at Kingston College HE Centre, Monday 23rd May 2011
We were proud to work with our colleagues from the Information Literacy Group to bring this CPD event on: Information Literacy and what it means for you and your institution.
A full write up of the event on the IL website can be found here
'Making enrichment work for your library/LRC', CILIP HQ, 7 Ridgmount Street, Friday 4th March, 2011, 3-5pm.
Enrichment activities are regarded as an important way to add value to the teaching and learning experience in our colleges but they are also a great way for us to raise the profile of our libraries and LRCs and emphasise the value of what we do for all our stakeholders.
At our meeting on the Friday 4th March we gathered to share information about what sorts of enrichment activities are being undertaken in libraries and LRCs across the London and South East region.
You can keep up with news about our forthcoming meeting and all sorts of other things on our blog (http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cofhelasec/default.aspx.)
Using Feedback for Marketing & Untangling Web 2.0 and Me?
The first CoFHE LASEC meeting of the 2010-11 session was held at CILIP HQ, 7 Ridgmount Street, London 3pm-5pm on Friday 26th November, 2010.
Anna Knox, of UEL, talked to the group about how feedback from users can help us to market our library services and Emma Crofts, of Strode's Sixth Form College, shared how she has managed to make progress with incorporating Web 2.0 tools into her service delivery since the Untangling Web 2.0 training day with Phil Bradley CoFHE LASEC organised in April 2010.
Great group discussion followed the presentations along with some informal networking over refreshments. Important news concerning the future of the CoFHE LASEC committee was announced with Stephen Wickens being elected Chair by those present and further posts on the Committee being opened up for expressions of interest.
CoFHE LASEC AGM10 and Secrets of e-book Success
In June 2010 CoFHE LASEC's Annual General Meeting was also an opportunity for Anna Vernon to talk about the progress of the E-books for FE project and a chance for representatives from two colleges, Barnet and Carshalton, to share with us the promotional techniques which have helped embed e-books in their service delivery. You can read more about the meeting on the CoFHE LASEC blog: [link to http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cofhelasec/archive/2010/06/15/cofhe-lasec-agm10-lasecebooks.aspx ]
Untangling Web 2.0
In April 2010 CoFHE LASEC were pleased to welcome Phil Bradley to Westminster Kingsway's Kings Cross campus for a day-long training event called Untangling Web 2.0. The day was a great success with delegates being introduced to various web-based tools and having the chance to debate their use in libraries. See the CoFHE LASEC blog for guest posts from two of the day's delegates, Ewa Wraga and Annabel Haycraft [link to http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cofhelasec/archive/2010/04/26/untangling-web-2-0-report-by-ewa-wraga-and-annabel-haycraft.aspx ]
Telstar and Information Literacy
20 November 2009: Owen Stephens of the Telstar project [link to http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/] spoke about this fascinating Open University Project, in association with RefWorks. See the CoFHE LASEC blog for a full account [link to http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/cofhelasec/archive/2009/11/22/cofhe-lasec-event-owen-stephens-telstar-amp-information-literacy.aspx ]
Annual General Meeting 2009
With speaker from JISC TechDis, advisory service on disability and technology at CILIP, 3 pm on 12th June 2009
Alistair McNaught, Senior Advisor for Further Education at JISC TechDis, the leading educational advisory service on accessibility and inclusion, will be talking about TechDis's work at the CoFHE London and South East Circle open meeting on Friday 12th June, at 3 pm at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.
All are welcome, it's free and there'll be refreshments. Contact the secretary, Stephen Wickens, to reserve your place: Stephen.Wickens@westking.ac.uk
For more information on the Circle’s activities contact the secretary Stephen Wickens: Stephen.Wickens@westking.ac.uk
Managing challenging behaviour for resource centre staff
Thursday 21st May 2009, 9.30-16.00, Merton College, Morden Park, London Road, Morden, Surrey SM4 5QX.
Trainer: Dr Ashby of ACT Consultancy & Training
Dr Ashby has undertaken various positions, including senior management roles in Further Education and the charity sector, specialising in working with young people and adults with drug, alcohol and anger management issues. It is from this background that Dr Ashby brings her experience and expertise together, from both the understanding of the education system, and the people who employ the system, to help raise standards and offer practical solutions.
The course will provide resource centre staff with strategies to minimise inappropriate behaviour. By the end of the course participants will:
Understand why young people embark on challenging behaviour
Be able to use the reasons for challenging behaviour to choose appropriate solutions
Be able to use new techniques to minimise inappropriate behaviours
Understand the new ‘Use of Force in Further Education’ legislation
Be able to use methods to reduce the risk of an aggressive situation becoming violent
Understand the best course of action when violence breaks out Be able to recognise assertive practices when dealing with challenging behaviour Modify body language to be assertive not passive or aggressive
In the morning session non-aggressive behaviour will be considered, from non-compliance to use of mobile phones. In the afternoon specific strategies for managing aggressive behaviour will be considered including issues such as staying safe and ensuring situations do not escalate.
The course considers not only practical strategies but also how participants’ own behaviour can have a significant effect on their success in dealing with a difficult situation, from body language to their own confidence levels.
E-books: putting the E in FE
Mystified by e-books? Want to hear the latest on the JISC E-books for FE project? Come to the next CoFHE London and South-East Circle open meeting.
Speakers:
Anna Vernon, Project Manager for the JISC E-Books for FE Project
Nathan Newey, Electronic Resources and Metadata Manager, University of East London
3 pm, Tuesday 31st March 2009, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
LASEC presents: LRS Self-Assessment Toolkit
The London and South East Circle of CoFHE (LASEC), with the JISC RSC
Centres for London and the South East, would like to give advance notice of the launch event in the capital of the Self-Assessment Toolkit for learning Resource Services in Further Education Colleges in England: FE Toolkit for England
Thursday 14th March
Charter East Suite
CILIP
7 Ridgmount Street
London
WC1E 7AE
Read a review of the event on the RSC London website
Inductions, still fresh in the audience’s mind, were the theme of CoFHE London and South East Circle’s first open meeting of the academic year. Ella Mitchell, Merton College and Stephen Wickens, Westminster Kingsway College presented on the Cephalonian Method of Library Inductions and their presentation may be downloaded. Mark Tonkiss demonstrated Carshalton’s induction video, Stephen showed us Westminster Kingsway, and the session ended with a highly entertaining demonstration of Carshalton’s interactive quiz.
LASEC AGM 10th June 2008
Masha Garibyan of JISC and the LSE gave a briefing on federated access management to the well-attended CoFHE LASEC AGM at CILIP on 10 June. Federated access is the new system of authentication for further and higher education, which goes live in July. Masha's presentation contains a useful page of links for further information - it is available below.
At the AGM the secretary and treasurer, Nick Turner and Mark Tonkiss, stood down. Nick and Mark have a total of thirteen years service to the circle between them and were thanked for everything they have done. Faye Sisson, the Chair, having resigned earlier in the year, the AGM elected new officers, with Tom Roper of South Thames College as chair and Stephen Wickens of Westminster Kingsway College as secretary.