Past Frontline Forums

Here are the details from the Frontline Forums that have run already. 

2024

Frontline Forum 1 - Tuesday 19th November 2024, 10.30-12.00

The forum ran on MS Teams. If you are unfamiliar with the way Teams operates and would like some additional information, please get in touch - academiclibrariesnorth@sconul.ac.uk. 

The theme of this forum was Induction and Welcome, with the following discussion ideas: 

• How did your welcome activities go this year? 
• Did you try anything new?
• What do you find works well? 
• How are you involved with library inductions and initiatives? 

Programme for the session

10:15: Informal start - come and have a chat over a drink or bring your lunch

10.30: Forum Opener - What is your favourite part of the job at the start of term?​ What is the strangest question that you’ve been asked at the start of term?

10.45: Sharing of experiences across the forum theme – Welcome and Induction (1)​

• Library, activities, events and competitions​

• Wider University events and activities (if you get involved in these) ​

11.05: Sharing of experiences across the forum theme – Welcome and Induction (2)​

• Use and approaches to social media​

• Embedded and taught sessions​

• Approaches to sustainability and the environment​

(Comfort break)​

11.35: An introduction to the work of the Academic Librarians Community of Practice​

11.50: Feedback and finish