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DEPARTMENT COLLABORATION
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What is the Subject Resource Project?
Subject Resource is a collaborative project based in the LRC to centralise resources and ensure students have access to the right materials. This involves close collaboration with departments to keep our stock and information up-to-date.
Stage 1
Establishing reading lists on Accessit with the physical and online resources recommended by teachers. This also involves buying new resources to keep our stock up-to-date. For an example Accessit reading list, please head over to Accessit and click on 'Subject Search' on the top banner. This will display all the subject areas taught at the College with their subject reading lists behind each icon.
Stage 2
Restructuring the Library by moving away from the Dewey system and curating subject bays with resources ordered under curriculum topic headings. We have seen a significant rise in usage figures under this new structure where all resources are kept together, including recommended textbooks, Non-Fiction and DVDs.
This also involves departments going through our stock and selecting that which they wish to keep and that which is no longer relevant. This means we have more space to invest in more relevant materials.
We then clean everything up on Accessit, relabel the stock we are keeping and update Subject Search accordingly. See below for some examples of the final product!
What impact does collaboration have on students?
Where departments have supported the work of the LRC, we have seen a huge rise in borrowing figures. Student feedback is that this new structure makes finding resources much easier and, even on a daily basis, we see students borrowing from these subject bays more regularly than anywhere else in the Library.
We also host a number of workshops and sessions for students where this pattern repeats; when departments support the work of the LRC, student interaction increases.
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