BRUM in the Guardian

Brilliant to see Nancy's quote from this blog cited in the Guardian, in response to a letter about the use and abuse of Google. See http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,1866056,00.html for more details.

MP3s for OPen Days

Nice to see the University using Audio recordings for its recent Open Days.
http://www.opendays.bham.ac.uk/undergraduate


Law have an interesting 5 minute MP3 file, based on questions and answers with the school, while Medicine and Psychology have a number of smaller files focusing on specific aspects, such as Entry Requirements, Graduate entry, First Impressions of Birmingham, and Psychology have also included a student perspective. I really like this idea and think these have been very well thought out – look out for Information Services input next time!

IL training - the frog way

Ann-Marie found this fantastic video on Google that uses a frog puppet to teach search strategy. It' s very simple but effective. Take a look here: http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=%22information+literacy%22