Factories: teaching resource facilities at UPC libraries
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
Institute of Education Sciences (ICE)
UPC Libraries
Pep Torn pep.torn@upc.edu
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Oporto, Portugal, May 22-25 2006
Summary
UPC
Opportunity of the project
Planning the Factories
Present situation and some examples
Main problems
Conclusions
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The UPC and the Library and Documentation Services
MANRESA
SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS
TERRASSA
CANET DE MAR
MATARÓ
BARCELONA
IGUALADA
VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ
CASTELLDEFELS
University Library indicators (2005)
Libraries
12
Visitors
2.586.465
Loans
286.029
Items
503.935
Books
263.368
E-journals
7.229
Databases
177
Users trained
4.501
Reading points
2.996
Staff
91 librarians, 53 other
Budget
2. 254.391€
Opportunity of the project
AIM: Effective support in designing and developing
educational projects. Access to existing educational support
resources
1 - European Higher Education Area
2 - Librarians TIC capabilities and ICE professional skills
3 - Paideia Strategic plan
4 – Create Change (www.createchange.org)
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Opportunity of the project
THE MAIN OPPORTUNITY:
ICE negotiates with INTEL the concession of computers FOR FREE to
develop the project…
And they get it!!!
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Planning the Factories
Some questions
- Where?
In the libraries
- Who?
Librarians
Education technicians
Multimedia designers
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Planning the Factories
- What?
- Physically located in a library
- Technology rich environment
- Integrated into traditional library services
- Access to full range of software
- Collaborative learning and workspaces
- Explicitly aligned with the institution-wide vision
- Non-library centric involving other campus units
- More emphasis on the creation of knowledge
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Present situation
11 factories functioning on UPC campuses
22 support staff with training in creating multimedia material
Activities carried out in 2004
488 activities of support to teaching improvement projects
40 teaching materials developed
3 training courses
54 UPC user units
Co-funding of 98 projects presented to obtain grants for teaching
innovation
We helped another catalan University to implement a service like our own,
called also Factoria
2004 report: http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/factoria
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Some examples
- Multimedia course with animations about Energies and
Environmental Science:
Link to the material
- Self-assessment on Descriptive Statistical Methods, applied
to Industrial Scheduling
Link to the material
- Multimedia course and videos about Optical Correlators
Link to the material
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Main Problems
1. It was not part of the Strategic Plan, can it works anyway?
2. Creating change before, during or after the project?
3. How many policies we have?
4. We use no standards: Dublin Core, SCORM, XML…
neither UPC templates
5. Can we obtain the same results with a no-cost policy
forever?
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Conclusions
1. The scope of the university library is changing again. We must be able to create
information, if possible as publishers, apart of the traditional services.
2. We have gained some users that have never come to enjoy the traditional
services .
3. Creating a service like the Factory means an essential part of the effort of
library staff.
4. Always there is the possibility to create materials following a line, a template;
useful for the majority of our users.
5. Enthusiasm is not the main part of the success.
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Thank you
Between thought and expression…
There’s a lifetime
Lou Reed
27th IATUL CONFERENCE
Oporto, Portugal, May 22-25 2006