IN DEPTH
Resources to build skills and collaboration
Sunderland College’s Learning Centres support thousands of further and higher education students through sixth form and beyond. Here Scott Marsden explains how the Learning Centres have developed resources that help build skills and support learning and development goals
THE Learning Centres of Sunderland College are part of an information and library service within Education Part- nership North East (EPNE). The group also includes Northumberland College and Hartlepool Sixth Form College. We focus on Further Education but also through our links with the Uni- versities of Cumbria, Sunderland and Huddersfield and Newcastle Univer- sity have franchised degree courses which our staff teach on behalf of these higher education institutions. We have 8,539 students across the group.
At our Washington Campus, Learning Centre staff were asked to help Biomedi- cal and Biopharmaceutical BSc students with Vancouver referencing. Sunderland College’s Learning Centre team has a long history of information skills training that goes back to 2008, and a cross-campus team of Curriculum Liaison Officers who have tried to develop students’ skills in Harvard referencing since our restructure of 2011. Nicholette Stothard was the Curricu- lum Liaison Officer involved in presenting Vancouver referencing sessions aided by her former experience as a teacher. The sessions went down well year-on-year from 2016 and she quickly found students asking her to provide more support to help them master this referencing style.
Collaboration
Richard Moniz, Jo Henry and Joe Eshleman (1: pp.70 - 78) stress the need for academic library staff to collaborate with teaching staff in any way they can in order to assist them with everything from producing
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Scott Marsden is Learning Centre Co-ordinator, Learning Resource Centres, Sunderland College.
classroom resources and teaching assis- tance to co-authoring books. The aim of this collaboration, they argue, is ‘equality and shared understanding become a by-product’ (1: p.70). Nicholette had been invited into classes by teaching staff and subsequently help sheets followed to aid the process. After one of the students asked where the book was to help them, Nicky and I decided to write one. Vancouver is an interesting referencing system. The first reference cited in your piece of work is designated a number 1. The second number 2 and so on. These numbers follow on sequentially through your piece of work but should you return to a source and cite it later on through your text, you would use the original number you gave it once again. With all references at the end of the prose, this style is conducive to the reader being able to follow the writing quickly and simply without the citations intruding unnecessarily as they scan the text. Nicky and I set off collecting sources for the book – but this was a challenge in itself as we needed to focus on scientific and medical disciplines, as this is the subject focus
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