This final, formal session at the 2024 Newcastle conference was facilitated by committee members. Delegates were arranged into groups at separate tables. During the conference delegates were encouraged to record discussion points on poster paper. Each table was given a topic, poster paper and pens. Photos of the posters and transcription are provided below. Please feel free to comment on this article with any further thoughts/ideas you have.
Object based learning as a way of engaging new students with the library
- Object based learning as a way of engaging new students with the library.
- Could we actively promote ARCLIB to (foreign) architecture librarians? E.g. one country per member and send out email/invtations?
- Do a small scale experiment in (almost) every institution and then report it at the next conference
- Designing info lit classes for new PhD students
- Strategies to engage with new academic staff?
- Using library data to improve the library
- Number of visitors
- ?Loans
- How to convincingly report on your successes in the library to management?
- What improvements to a place did not work out?
How can we use gen AI to help us in our jobs?
- IMP to validate + check
- What about copyright?!
- Meeting/events summaries
- Lesson plans: developing students research + critical evaluation skills
- Help with mundane tasks
- Reports
Resources in a time of budget cuts
Examples of active learning or community of inquiry (COI) activities people use to track library skills to architect students – or any students
- Physical or using student response system e.g. meqti/ padlet
Sustainability
-Based on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
-Consumption/waste in-situ
Apps, etc (to map out)
How to support/sponsor student from global majority to persue Archit librarianship path
Regenerative materials/desig
- What can we do locally/individually to reduce carbon emissions
Energy intensive- our cloud- discuss with providers
Sustainability costs of cloud/services
- Library unwanted resources- how to recycle
- Printing: the balance of printed material/online
- Materials library; sustainable mat-ls
- In depth classification development
- Consider the sustainability of chains, carpet tyles
- Adapt more sustainable approaches to maintenance of interior and equipment
- Consider eco approach to ? everything: checking material
- Consider plastic, collection, recycling points
- Sharing/re-sue inside/outside organisations
- Use technologies ? into libraries
Explore – pull together well ? discussions
- In everyday responsibilities / ?? in everyday activity to cooperate with dept/providers
- To use rep…?/stu?
… expertise in our projects involve them more into solution- to create a community – ?
- To develop pro active professional activities as group discussions, sessions group of study, to communicate with local community
University liaison with communities [local engagement on the issues].
Materials? environment
Would you like to contribute to discussion on these topics?
Please add comments below about any of these topics from your experience at your library/organisation. It would be great to discuss these further. In some cases we posed additional follow-up questions, or perhaps you have your own. Let’s keep the conversations going!
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