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My Morning Melting in… Leicester (I so wanted it to be ‘in Melton’)

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Simpson Desert

Picture: Leicester City Centre, this morning.

Or possibly the Simpson Desert, by tensaibuta, on Flickr.

35°C is too hot for me.

I’ve spent this morning in the city, first for a meeting with people [librarians, VLE people, and lecturers] from Leicester College, who are shortly to start delivering a UoL foundation degree in Food Manufacture (Bakery).

We discussed appropriate resources for the students (inc. ScienceDirect, Mintel, e-books, RefWorks) which they’re going to expose to the students via their Moodle VLE; we talked about creating a physical and virtual induction and support materials; and they were kind enough to take me down to see their bakery suite, which was empty and undeveloped the first time I saw it and is now a hive of building activity ready for September.

After that, I went around the corner to the University of Leicester for a chat with Gareth Johnson (aka @llordllama), who’s an information librarian and manager of the Leicester Research Archive (LRA), their repository. I always enjoy talking to people at other institutions involved in repository work – it’s a great social leveller! No matter what the type, size, or prestige of the university, a lot of the problems are the same.

I also got a behind-the-scenes tour of the impossibly smart David Wilson Library: chaises longues and all.


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