We started by each Learning Resource Centre Manager giving a brief report on what is happening in their college. The common themes were:
- restructuring/redundancies/doing more with less staff
- budget freezes
- increase in delivering/supervising classes
- promoting e-books and e-resources
- library refurbishments
- safeguarding and encouraging student to wear ID cards
It was really useful and reassuring to see that my experiences are mirrored by other LRC Managers and to discuss ideas and strategies both formally as a group and in small groups during tea and lunch.
Elaine Salter from the University of Westminster gave a talk about how they have established roving. It was interesting to hear how roving combats feelings of library anxiety in students. It was also interesting to hear the process of how roving was introduced to staff and how not all staff were required to rove, as some staff are better suited to back room tasks. I'd like to see how roving works in practice. I've heard of there being two seperate teams on the floor - one roving and one behaviour managing - signified by different coloured t-shirts. Unfortunately I don't have anything like the amount of staff to achieve this.
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