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Using the library will improve your grades! Statistics to promote your service

Using the library will improve your grades! Statistics to promote your service. Christian Stretton St John Rigby College, Orrell. How do we deliver inductions?. Who decides this format?. Lecture format to large groups Staff-led activity for smaller groups Online activity.

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Using the library will improve your grades! Statistics to promote your service

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  1. Using the library will improve your grades! Statistics to promote your service Christian Stretton St John Rigby College, Orrell

  2. How do we deliver inductions? Who decides this format? Lecture format to large groups Staff-led activity for smaller groups Online activity The Learning Resources manager The Learning Resources team The College Senior Management team

  3. Lecture format to large groups • On students’ first day at college – information overload! • Dull • Very short sessions • Instead – short sales pitch on induction day with links to website and follow-up sessions later on in term

  4. Idea! • Library non-users research • Use data from library system and college admin system to prove that using the library will increase grades

  5. Welcome to the LRC • LRC = Learning Resources Centre = Library • Where we are • Open 8.30-4.30 • Full details available on the intranet

  6. Why use the LRC? • Never used the LRC Average grade = D/E

  7. Why use the LRC? • Regularly used the LRC Average grade = C

  8. Why use the LRC? • Regularly used the LRC and Online Resources Average grade = A/B

  9. How we did it • Three sample groups: • Never used • Regularly used • Regularly used (and used online resources)

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  13. Group 2 - Regularly used • Same procedure with usage>30 • Check grades in Corero • Input into excel

  14. Group 3 - Regularly used (and used online resources) • More difficult – stats don’t exist of exactly who has been using the resources • Do know who has attended Info Skills workshop sessions

  15. Impact • College Principal’s interest • Stuck in the students’ minds • Consistently busy with rising issue figures over past two years

  16. Christian Stretton 01942 219687 christian.stretton@sjr.ac.uk

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