Helen Howard
Skills@Library Team Leader
The University of Leeds
Contact:
Skills@Library
15 Blenheim Terrace
The University of Leeds LS2 9JT
E-mail: h.e.howard@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 113 3434983
Areas of research:
- Developing Information Literacy within a wider set of academic skills
- Staff and researcher development of IL skills
- Digital Literacy
Biography:
I am Skills@Library Team Leader at Leeds University Library, a post I have held since August 2009. Previously, I was Information Literacy Team Leader, leading the Library’s work in this area for the last 10 years. The Skills@Library service combines the Library’s information literacy and academic skills activities and provides teaching and online skills support to students, researchers and staff. I have been involved in a number of national IL projects including the Big Blue (information skills in HE and FE) and JISC i-skills work on IL and staff development. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Bibliography:
Howard, H. and Newton, A. (2005) How to win hearts and minds. CILIP Update 4 (1-2), pp 27-28.
Mackenzie, A. and Howard, H. (2002) The big blue - information skills for students. JISC.
Conference Papers:
Howard, H. Ensuring information literacy survives in a changing HE world. LILAC 2011 Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference, British Library, London.
Howard, H. and Sidwell, K. Was RIN wrong? A discussion of information-handling training for researchers. LILAC 2009 Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference, Cardiff University.
Howard, H. and Schneider, M. Interactive tutorials: bite-sized chunks for new students, and engaging undergraduates and researchers with Articulate Engage. Engaging our Digital Natives: Technologies to Inspire Information Literacy Teaching. Yorkshire Universities Information Skills Group Workshop 2009, Bradford University.
Howard, H. Set for success… developing researchers’ information literacy skills. LILAC 2008 Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference, Liverpool John Moores University.
Howard, H. Engaging your audience - using technology for interactive learning: e-voting. Successful teaching techniques: does size matter? Yorkshire Universities Information Skills Group Workshop 2005, Leeds Metropolitan University.
Updated November 2011 by Helen Howard h.e.howard@leeds.ac.uk.