Welcome to the February 2022 e-books for FE newsletter. FE LRC Community of Practice We had the first drop-in session of the year on 26 January, on the theme of ‘Library online presence’, with an attendance of over a hundred FE library staff – off to a flying start! Joy McLean, Senior Librarian at West […]
Welcome to the first VLR newsletter of 2022! This month we have a reminder about participation in our VLR redesign project and an update on Digifest 2022. Final call for interviewees for VLR redesign project As we’ve mentioned previously, we are currently looking at how we might redesign or develop our Vocational Learning Resources to […]
Happy new year! And welcome to the January 2022 e-books for FE newsletter. e-books procurement 2022 We are now starting the annual e-books procurement process, and taking a different approach from previous years. Rather than asking library staff to provide us with spreadsheets of wanted titles, we would like your feedback on what you consider […]
The FE and Skills Content Team are looking at how we might redesign or develop our Vocational Learning Resources to add further value for our FE members. We are currently looking to interview teaching practitioners in FE organisations to develop a better understanding of the problems and challenges teaching staff face when using digital learning […]
Welcome to the December 2021 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. We’ve made it to the end of another challenging year! E-book usage remained high in November, with a total of 159,481 user sessions across the subscribing colleges – the second-highest ever recorded (the highest remains last November, with 164,646). Thank you for all […]
Welcome to the November 2021 Vocational Learning Resources newsletter. This month we’re looking at the project we’re running to evolve our Vocational Learning Resources and how you can get involved, our new top 10 resources list, and our top users for October. Evolving the VLRs project The FE and Skills Content team are currently […]
Welcome to the November 2021 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. The nights are fair drawing in and Christmas is just around the corner! Jisc statement on e-book access The issue of e-text pricing and licencing has been in the news ever since the #ebookSOS campaign was launched a year ago, and Jisc has […]
Welcome to our VLR top users for September! As we mentioned in our previous newsletter, we are going to start sharing and celebrating our top users for the VLRs for Construction Training, Digital and IT Training, Education and Childcare Training and Health and Social Care Training. We have two sets of data for log ins: […]
Welcome to the October 2021 issue of our e-books for FE newsletter. Usage of Jisc e-books continues to rise, now that the new term has begun: there was an increase of 19% compared to September 2020. We hope that our new promotional materials are helping library services to spread the word among students and teaching […]
Welcome to the September 2021 issue of the Vocational Learning Resources newsletter. This month, we’re focusing on the key findings from Jisc’s 2021 digital experience insights survey for FE learners and what worked and didn’t work for students whilst they were learning remotely. We also have a reminder about subscriptions and VLR top users. Digital […]