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If you haven’t engaged with our Summer School before, it is a series of training and professional development events open to all LCCOS staff but particularly aimed at staff who are customer facing and whose roles include providing information and support, responding to enquiries, or liaison, teaching and training. The Summer School aims to support colleagues in developing their knowledge and skills so they are better able to fulfil these aspects of their roles. Sessions are usually delivered by colleagues, sharing the knowledge and expertise we have across LCCOS, and some may be aimed at staff supporting particular disciplines.

The Summer School takes place during June and July, with a mixture of live online events that will be recorded, and face to face events.

Recordings and materials from previous years of the Summer School are available on the UCL LCCOS Staff Summer School Moodle course.

Please help shape this year’s Summer School by completing our suggestion form by Friday 3 May 2024. You can also use the suggestion form to request the enrolment key for the Moodle course, if you don’t already have access.

• LCCOS Staff Summer School: suggestion form

The Summer School takes place during June and July, with a mixture of live online events that will be recorded, and face to face events.

Recordings and materials from previous years of the Summer School are available on the UCL LCCOS Staff Summer School Moodle course.

Please help shape this year’s Summer School by completing our suggestion form by 17 May 2023. You can also use the suggestion form to request the enrolment key for the Moodle course, if you don’t already have access.

• LCCOS Staff Summer School: suggestion form

Bookings are now being taken for the Biomedical and Health Information Summer School 2016, a series of training and professional development sessions which aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of UCL Library Services staff to better enable them to answer enquiries and support the needs of UCL and NHS library users. Although some sessions have a biomedical or health emphasis, some are generic in their nature and relevant to library staff from any discipline.

It’s an extensive programme this year, with a variety of sessions pitched at a range of levels, running throughout June and July:

• Open access: supporting researchers
• Exploring ebooks
• Advanced and systematic literature searching and support for systematic reviews
• Introducing the new HDAS: NHS databases
• Sources of drug information
• Bibliometrics: counting citations and why citations count
• Critical appraisal skills: getting to grips and moving forward
• Managing references on the go

This year’s programme also includes an online-online component, dare you take the 30 Day Research Support Challenge?

Full details of the programme, including the 30 Day Research Support Challenge, are available on LibNet. Sessions are open to all UCL Library Services staff, however priority will be given to those based on biomedical sites. Please ensure you have the permission of your line manager to attend.

Please email info.skills@ucl.ac.uk to book a place or for further information. Please include your name, site/team, telephone number, email address, and the session(s) you wish to attend.
Alternatively contact Angela Young (angela.young@ucl.ac.uk, 020 7794 0500 x33201) or Steven Bembridge (steven.bembridge@ucl.ac.uk, 020 7794 0500 x38238).

Best wishes,
Angela.