Rights and accessibility.
The collections held by the UWI are largely governed by individual legal agreements and institutional policies. These agreements determine whether an item or collection can be used and copied for TWSC. Although the objective of the programme is to have students interact with the original resource, if they have follow up exercises, they often times require copies for private consultation. Therefore materials which can be copied are preferably selected versus items with restrictions.
Another accessibility issue which collection managers have to decide on is whether services which usually have costs attached would be free to students as the work becomes part of classroom curriculum
Conclusion The programme continues to grow with several lecturers becoming repeat participants. Thus far both students and lecturers have given the department anecdotal evidence on how they have benefitted from the programme. In the foreseeable future it is important for our own assessment of the programme that strategies be put in place to measure whether the learning objectives are being achieved, why some lecturers are not repeat participants and to determine how best to reach a wider selection of faculty.
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