Section Five: Teaching Technologies
Library Toolkits Cardiff University has a number of subject-specific library toolkits. They provide online tutorials, guides and links to subject resources.
(https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/multisubject/MedicineToolkit/home.html)
The Information Skills section (see screenshot above) constitutes the core of each toolkit and is a step-by-step guide to searching for, retrieving and using information. Subject Librarians have adapted the Information Skills section to suit their subject and added their own specific information. For example, the Distance Learning Service (DLS) Toolkit contains the DLS Handbook, information on how to request articles and books and a Virtual Librarian widget that allows users to chat online with a librarian.
The toolkits are embedded into the course VLEs and are introduced to the students in library inductions and IL training.
The toolkits are constructed using HTML web pages with links to various resources and tutorials within the ILRB. To adapt the toolkit to your subject area you need to obtain the source web pages and edit them in a HTML editor such as Dreamweaver which is available on the Cardiff University network. Contact Lucy Collins (CollinsL2@cardiff.ac.uk) to obtain the files and for help getting started.
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