Turning up and tuning in: strategies for student engagement with library sessions (hosted online by Northumbria library)

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Event Start June 11, 2025 9:30 am	Event End June 11, 2025 11:30 am	Booking closes June 5, 2025 12:00 am
Location Online via Teams

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Libraries work diligently to create meaningful and informative learning support sessions. However, these events often face the challenge of poor attendance.

What do we mean by engagement? Engagement can be charted through various stages: students’ awareness of the support available, their willingness to sign up and attend, and their level of interaction during the sessions. Should we be using a marketing approach to reach students, evaluate our offerings, or consider the timing and mode of delivery? Or should we enhance the sessions themselves through more interactive elements, gamifying learning, and promoting discussion?

This event aims to explore challenges and discuss various strategies to boost engagement. We’ll share examples from our member libraries on how they’ve addressed low turnout, including what strategies have worked and what haven’t.

Who is this event aimed at?

It will be of interest to anyone involved in teaching students (info literacy, study skills etc).

Programme

9:30am	Welcome and ‘Been There Bingo’.
9:40am	Harriet Davidson, University of Sunderland. Keeping the Spark: Experimenting with Student Engagement at Sunderland.
9:50am	Q&A for Harriet Davidson.
10am	Anne Archer and Georgia McNally, Newcastle University. Putting the ‘liaison’ back into Liaison Librarians: engaging successfully and building meaningful relationships with students and staff.
10:10am	Q&A for Anne Archer and Georgia McNally.
10:20am	Ryan Woodward and Louise Cowan, Newcastle University. Opening up our workshops: Establishing and evolving a programme of non-embedded skills support.
10:30am	Q&A for Ryan Woodward and Louise Cowan.
10:40am	Big Ideas Break.
10:50am	Kirsty Whitehead and Olivia Else, University of York. From Empty Rooms to Active Screens: Rethinking Our Skills Offer.
11am	Q&A for Kirsty Whitehead and Louise Cowan.
11:10am	Anne Williams, University of Chester. Twilight Teaching: Reaching the Hard-to-Reach, One Evening at a Time.
11:20am	Q&A for Anne Williams.
11:30am	Key Takeaways and Lightbulb Moments.

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