{"id":45,"date":"2016-06-21T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/?p=45"},"modified":"2016-06-21T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:28:51","slug":"student-and-community-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/2016\/06\/21\/student-and-community-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Student and Community Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">How can libraries, archives, and museums reach out to students, get people interested in their collections, and engage with the wider public? Sometimes it takes doing something completely unexpected. Student Engagement Officer Serena Fredrick and Learning and Engagement Curator Sarah Deters shared how they are working to engaged people with the vast arrays of items housed at the Centre for Research Collections. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/files\/2016\/06\/taster-day-300x2251-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"taster-day-300x225[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This presentation explored the concept of \u2018engagement\u2019 and how its meaning may differ between institutions; what are the different types of audiences institutions may focus on; and how funding opportunities may impact the types of activities an institution may provide. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/files\/2016\/06\/Penguin-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Penguin\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/files\/2016\/06\/Penguin-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/files\/2016\/06\/Penguin.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">An interactive session ended the presentation with participants creating their own event around one of the University\u2019s more gruesome artefacts \u2013 a letter written in the blood of the notorious killer, William Burke. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can libraries, archives, and museums reach out to students, get people interested in their collections, and engage with the wider public? Sometimes it takes doing something completely unexpected. Student Engagement Officer Serena Fredrick and Learning and Engagement Curator Sarah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/2016\/06\/21\/student-and-community-engagement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7,2,6,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/librarykew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}