Student welcome and induction 2024 – save the dates!
By Angela Young, on 19 July 2024
The LCCOS Induction Working Group has been busy planning welcome and induction for new students for the 2024-25 academic session. With a series of blogposts, we’ll be keeping you up to date with what’s happening, how you can get involved and how we can support you locally.
What’s happening?
New students are being encouraged to come to campus and collect their ID card as early as possible this year from Monday 16th September, so we can expect to see campus getting lively from then (International Student Welcome Week) and really buzzing by the following week.
We will be inviting LCCOS colleagues to get involved in our Induction Taskforce to support our central activities, so pencil the following dates in your calendars and keep a lookout for future updates:
- International Student Library Seminars: 12.15-13.00 every day w/c 16th September in the North-West Wing.
- Support Services Fair: 10.00–15.30 every day Mon 23 – Wed 25 Sep in the cloisters (and Fri 27 at UCL East).
- Explore demonstrations: 12.00-12.30 and 12.30-13.00 every day w/c 23 September in the Science Library G15 Teaching Cluster room.
- Getting Started spaces in Main and Science libraries: 10.00-16.00 every day w/c 23 September, and wraparound TBC at Main Library towards the end of w/c 16th Sep and w/c 30th Sep.
Why get involved?
The Induction Taskforce is a great opportunity for anyone across LCCOS to get involved in meeting and greeting new students, to work with colleagues from across LCCOS, and to develop your experience and skills.
Here’s what some Taskforce members said when reflecting on their involvement last year:
“It’s always good to meet the new students and welcome them. It was good to work with other library team members. It was a very good opportunity to learn from them as well.”
“I learned from this experience and really appreciated the opportunity to contribute.”
“I really liked helping with the Explore session, and engaging with the users in a class setting and on a one to one basis in something specific like searching Explore.”
Supporting local inductions
Local, tailored inductions for students in individual faculties, departments or academic programmes, or at individual library sites, are vital to complement centralised activities and instil a sense of belonging. Take a look at our recommendations on how you might deliver local inductions and what content to include.