Cambridge Information Literacy Network

Critical Reading Workshops: Introducing Freshers to Reading Academic Articles

Oct 31, 2019 by camiln

The beginning of this academic year has seen a wealth of classes and inductions aimed at orienting students around Cambridge. In amongst all of this, the Critical Reading Group has been piloting a session to teach students how to critically read academic works. The Critical Reading Group formed eight months ago when a demonstration was … Continue reading Critical Reading Workshops: Introducing Freshers to Reading Academic Articles

Promotion at Freshers Fair

Oct 15, 2019 by camiln

Cambridge University Libraries had a stand at the Freshers Fair last week and it was staffed by colleagues from the UL, faculty and department and also college libraries. We didn’t offer free pizza, free pancakes or free booze but we did give away lots of CamGuides postcards and pencils, and iDiscover bookmarks. We also had … Continue reading Promotion at Freshers Fair

CamGuides Stories

Oct 1, 2019Oct 1, 2019 by camiln

CILN is gathering stories of how students are using our spanking new resource: CamGuides for Undergraduates. If you have a story to tell then get in touch and let us know about it. It might be something that seems relatively insignificant but everything is of interest and useful. Send your stories via the current CILN … Continue reading CamGuides Stories

Keeping on Keeping on

Sep 30, 2019Sep 30, 2019 by camiln

A keeping-in-touch day for Cambridge Librarians in a week of many, many other updates and information provision. A video of the afternoon will be forthcoming…. 2018-2019 A quick overview of ‘all the things’ CILN has achieved through the huge commitment by library staff across the University was provided to start with. We’ve completed BIG projects … Continue reading Keeping on Keeping on

Is reading for fun teaching information literacy? Reflections on the Cambridge EcoFiction Bookgroup

Sep 3, 2019Sep 3, 2019 by camiln

Written by Marian Via Rivera The idea: Last year we decided to try out something new in the MMLL library: running a bookgroup. As we expand our library teaching provision, we look for new ways to embed skills instruction into our activities. The main question was whether we needed to focus on our Faculty’s teaching, … Continue reading Is reading for fun teaching information literacy? Reflections on the Cambridge EcoFiction Bookgroup

Teaching with CamGuides for Undergraduates

Aug 15, 2019Aug 15, 2019 by camiln

This week I had the enormous privilege and great fun of working with the most magnificent group of Sutton Trust students. 26 of them, in Year 12, from a variety of schools, and all really keen on studying English Literature at Cambridge or universities like it. I wanted to use CamGuides for Undergraduates in the … Continue reading Teaching with CamGuides for Undergraduates

CamGuides evaluation, testing and editing

Jul 30, 2019 by camiln

This post is by Amanda Hawkes, who along with Sheryl Wombell, organised a comprehensive independent review of the new CamGuides UG resource. With thanks also to Frankie Marsh for designing postcards and other promotional material an example of which is below. Following hot on the heels of the success of CamGuides for Masters students will … Continue reading CamGuides evaluation, testing and editing