Librarians from the Shannon Consortium member libraries (UL, LIT, ITTralee and Mary I College) were well represented, and the librarian from St Patrick's College Thurles was a welcome addition to a group used to meeting under the Library Network Support Services banner (2008-2010).
Two of the librarians attending gave brief formal presentations - Donna O'Doibhlin (UL) presented on Peer Observation, and Pádraig Kirby (LIT) presented on Judith Peacock's strategies for building an IL programme.
Discussion was lively, and covered:
- Blended Learning
- Teaching methodologies
- Pedagogical skills
- Teaching qualifications
- Embedded IL
- One-person libraries
- Teaching students of varying technical and IL levels
- The new CONUL Information Literacy guide (to be posted here soon ...)
Agreement that the TeachMeet had been beneficial was unanimous, and the librarian from the Limerick College of Art & Design kindly agreed to host the next TeachMeet towards the end of September.
It was also agreed that each future meeting would focus on a particular theme. The theme for September will be Mobile Technologies.
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