{"id":36,"date":"2021-03-23T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/?p=36"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:16:35","slug":"five-things-asls-have-been-doing-to-help-students-since-lockdown-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/2021\/03\/23\/five-things-asls-have-been-doing-to-help-students-since-lockdown-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things ASLs have been doing to help students since lockdown 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When coronavirus restrictions began in March 2020, the University of Edinburgh had to close some libraries and change some library services. But Academic Support Librarians haven\u2019t gone away. We may have been working from home, but we\u2019ve been busy helping students to get the best out of the library. So what have we been doing?<\/p>\n

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  1. Keeping you updated<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From the start of lockdown the Library Academic Support team web editors have maintained the Library Updates<\/a> page to provide an overview of the library services available to you during coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n

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    1. Helping you to get the books and journals you need<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Coronavirus restrictions made it difficult to access the print library collections for your courses. We listened to what you needed and worked with our Library Acquisitions colleagues to purchase new digital versions of texts you could access remotely. We couldn\u2019t get everything we wanted \u2013 sometimes publisher prices were just too high (see this reported in the press<\/a>) and sometimes what you needed simply wasn\u2019t available as a library e-book. But we worked to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on new digital content to meet student needs.<\/p>\n

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      1. Giving help and advice for your dissertation research<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        We understand that researching your dissertation during coronavirus restrictions is a huge challenge. We\u2019ve offered you help and advice on your library research by email and, if you needed it, a chance to meet online for a chat, with multiple librarian appointments<\/a> available every week (we\u2019ve met over two hundred students so far this academic year). Plus, we\u2019ve run online Dissertation Festivals<\/a> in October 2020 and March 2021 with events highlighting the wealth of digital resources available from the library and beyond to support your dissertation research.<\/p>\n

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        1. Writing an information literacy online course<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          We want every student to have the digital skills they need to use online library resources, so they don\u2019t miss out on any of the resources and support that\u2019s available to them. So we\u2019ve written an online course, LibSmart<\/a>, to help you develop key information literacy skills to navigate the library landscape for your studies and succeed at university.<\/p>\n

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          1. Making videos<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            We\u2019ve delivered over two hundred live information literacy classes to students this academic year, but during coronavirus restrictions we know that you can\u2019t always make it to a class when it\u2019s happening. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve created over a hundred videos<\/a>, many of them bitesize, so you can find out what you need to know about the library, when you need to know it.<\/p>\n

            Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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