A toolkit to support the introduction of the Public Library Quality Improvement Matrix has been developed by SLIC and contains:
Sources of evidence
Links to other quality evaluation frameworks
Mapping tool of quality indicators to specific service strands Illustrations at level 2 (weak) and level 4 (good)
Questionnaire for use with the public
Best practice, including templates from pilot authorities
Presentation for use with staff
Guidance for staff training
"SLAINTE is an online service for library and information professionals in Scotland. The website combines the work of the two professional bodies for librarians in Scotland: the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS).
SLIC is the independent advisory body to the Scottish Government on library matters. CILIPS is the Scottish arm of CILIP, the professional body for individual librarians and information professionals in the UK."
"Sure, you use the Internet all the time,but you need to wise up to the web when you use it for your university or college work." Use this free Internet tutorial to learn to discern the good, the bad and the ugly for your online research.
Welcome to the Virtual Training Suite - a set of free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills for your university course.\nAll our tutorials written and reviewed by a national team of lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK. These interactive, teach-yourself tutorials take around an hour to complete. Simply work through the material in your own time at your own pace.
SCRAN - part of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - aims to provide educational access to digital materials representing our material culture and history. This is provided through the wholly owned trading arm Scran Ltd. We are one of the largest educational online services in the UK supporting over 4,000 schools, libraries, colleges and universities.
EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about ELI 7 Things You Should Know. Excellent quality, short papers on everything from ebooks and ebook readers, through blogs, wikis, social networking and educational apps.
Service development and Self-Evaluation for library and information services in Scottish Further Education colleges (PDF) is the latest SLIC guidance for self evaluation in the sector (also available as a word document). It has been produced in consultation with HMIe, JISC and the college community of practice. The guidance is mapped to the latest HMIe framework which is built around 'light touch' review arrangements, the shift in emphasis from quality 'improvement' to 'enhancement' and the dropping of 'grades' in favour of 'confidence statements'. For the first time there is an explicit requirement on colleges to report on support services and our guidance is intended to assist with this process.
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An online information service powered by Scotland's public libraries, which lets you get answers to questions without visiting your local library. The service will soon be expanded and answers will also be provided by FE librarians.
Information & Libraries Scotland is the blog of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS). The blog is intended to complement our existing electronic content and services on the SLAINTE website and our Pagecast. We aim to stimulate discussion and debate within the Scottish library and information community so please contribute by adding comments to our posts.
This area provides a basic overview of FOI for the Scottish information professional. It aims to supplement the guidance given by the Scottish Information Commissioner, and suggests resources and information of practical use. A Guide For The Information Professional (PDF) is available for download.
The latest Tables of Contents from thousands of scholarly journals. Search the latest Table of Contents (TOCs) of 14,113 journals collected from 556 top publishers. More journals are added continuously.
On Bookboon you can download a wide variety of free online textbooks. All the books are available in PDF and you can download them directly without registration. The textbooks are legal and written exclusively for Bookboon by academics from different European universities. The books are financed by a few in-book adverts.
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.
JISC Collections is a membership organisation, established by the UK Higher and Further Education funding councils, to support the procurement of digital content for education and research in the UK.
We are uniquely placed to provide our members with:
expertise in negotiating and procurement, within the scholarly communications sector, to save librarians time and money
high-quality e-resource collections selected for academic research, teaching and learning \nbest pricing and licensing, using our collective influence to obtain value for money
environmental scanning and research into innovative resources, licensing models and evaluation tools
shared knowledge about e-resource acquisition and research.
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Documentary heritage reflects the diversity of languages, peoples and cultures. It is the mirror of the world and its memory. But this memory is fragile. Every day, irreplaceable parts of this memory disappear forever.
UNESCO has launched the Memory of the World Programme to guard \nagainst collective amnesia calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world ensuring their wide dissemination.
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:
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How it works
Where it is going
Why it matters to teaching and learning
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Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 5226 journals in the directory. Currently 2175 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 428813 articles are included in the DOAJ service.