Rosie Enys, Victoria Rees & Catherine Worrall : Artists and Libraries Research for Creative Practice

Описание: We would like to share our experiences of creating and delivering a new session for all Falmouth University students. In our Academic Liaison Librarian roles, we often observe a disconnect in our students between 'research' for written assignments and 'research' for the practical aspects of their courses. These students are immersed in their creative practice and can feel less comfortable exploring the physical and digital library spaces.

We wanted to inspire a sense of the library as an inclusive space, a space for enhancing creative practice, and to dissolve any preconceived barriers to research. The interactive session is designed to encourage the students to realise how their creative and improvisational skills can be transferred to support and complement the experience of research.

We used Mural to create an interactive online space to share ideas and strategies in research. Activity driven, the session allowed the students to make connections between their own practice and research. We reframed core information literacy skills to help connect practice-based students with the value of research.

This presentation will be a reflection on the development and the recent delivery of this session, with ideas for future iterations.

Speaker biographies:

Rosie Enys BA (Hons), MA, PGCHE, FHEA, MCLIP is the Academic Liaison Librarian for the Academy of Music and Theatre Arts at Falmouth University. Rosie is also a Subject Librarian for the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy at the University of Exeter. Rosie is interested in examining the connection between library and studio spaces, and how our utilisation and perception of these spaces impact the approach to research and the integration of research into practice. Rosie is also interested in the concept of 'metaliteracy' which focuses on the inter-connected literacies needed to adapt to our ever evolving and complex information environment. She has previously delivered the following papers: Information, Research & the Digital World at LILAC 2015; and Articulating Identity: The (un)comfortable Space of Collaborative Pedagogy at SIBMAS 2016.
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Victoria Rees BA (Hons), MSc was until recently the Academic Liaison Librarian for the School of Film and Television and the Games Academy at Falmouth University. The role included supporting students in creative disciplines to navigate the current information landscape to suit their own individual needs. Previous roles included working in public libraries, international school libraries in Florence and Geneva, and roles in other HE institutes. She has recently moved back to her native Wales and taken up a role in the University Library Service at Cardiff University.
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Catherine Worrall BA (Hons), PG Dip, MA is the Academic Liaison Librarian for the School of Art and the Institute of Photography at Falmouth University. Catherine has published articles in the Visual Resources Association Bulletin in 2011, as well as in the Art Libraries Journal in 2012, during her previous role as Image Collections Co-ordinator. During this period, she was awarded travel awards to attend various Visual Resources Association Conferences in North America, including Atlanta in 2010 where she also delivered a paper: ‘Art in the digital age: a comparative study of the adoption of electronic visual resources in the UK, Ireland and North America’. In her current role, Catherine is keen to encourage BA and MA students to use the library collections and spaces to inspire and inform their own practice, as well as support their written assignments, and is working on various projects to facilitate this as well as to share the experience with the wider professional community.

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