College Library Wins Prize

Library staff at Peterborough Regional College have won a Zoom Q3 multimedia recorder for submitting a case study on developing exciting and interesting new ways of searching for information.

Claire Chinnery, Library+ Manager, Anna Wildman, Assistant Librarian & Richard Wildman, ILT /VLE Facilitator, shared their collective skills & knowledge to develop an innovative approach to help students get to grips with using the Dewey Decimal system. Inspired by staff development training using interactive whiteboards, they designed an activity-based interactive pair’s game which was fun, engaging and effective in helping students search for course-relevant resources in the library.

Claire Chinnery Library+ Manager says:
‘We are continuously trying to adopt different & imaginative ways to engage students to help them to develop the life skill of finding information.  Feedback from students & teaching staff has been extremely positive & encouraging. ‘

A case study about their work can be viewed on the Excellence Gateway website, http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk the leading online service for everyone who works in the post-16 learning and skills sector in England.