What makes a library excellent? How do you measure success? The Know @ OSFC was given a Grade One ‘Excellent’ rating in its CoLRiC peer assessment in October 2018. It takes many different ingredients to create a great service and then to sustain that level of delivery. How is that achieved with limited resources and with ever shifting goalposts? #cilipconf19

1. A Recipe for Success?
Corinne Walker
Learning Resources Manager
Oldham Sixth Form College
& co- Chair CoLRiC (Council for Learning Resources in
Colleges)

2. About Me
• 1992
• Co Chair CoLRiC (Council for Learning
Resources in Colleges
• FE & 6th Form Libraries – 40%
• Copyright Officer & DPO for MAT
• Chair of Librarians in Education Group Oldham
(LEGO)

3. About OSFC
• 200+ staff, 2450 students
• Non selective, 16-19 only
• ONS - most deprived town in Britain
• 51% of students in receipt of financial help
• 98% pass rate at A-level
• 75% go to University, 25% Russell Group
• MAT – Pinnacle Learning Trust
• Teaching School Alliance (ITT)
• T levels pilot
• NW Social Mobility Award winner 2017

4. The Know @OSFC
• 6 staff
• CoLRiC PAS 2018 - Grade 1/Excellent service
• University style accommodation
• Hi tec
• Digital Learning team
• Line managed by Teaching & Learning

5. The Know @OSFC

6. What makes us special?
• Efficient/Value for money
•Planning/attention to detail
•Commitment to nurture
staff
•CPD - 14 hours R & D

7. What makes us special?
•PAS - CoLRiC
•Quality
•Impact

8. Date
w/c
Celebration/Event Cross college/Tutorial
activities/Literacy Pathway
TK College theme/WBQW TK activities/theme Monthly subjects & Skills Boost
Sessions
3/9
Wk 1
Yr 12 Intro to tutorial, college
expectations
Yr 13 UCAS
LP = Sentence structure
Literacy
‘People don’t realise how a man’s whole life
can be changed by one book’ Malcolm X
Any book!
www.literacytrust.org.uk
Reading Can Take You Anywhere
Books that have changed lives
September Subject of the month
– Sport and Psychology
10/9
Wk 2
90th
Anniversary of the
discovery of penicillin
(RBT)
Yr 12 Change curve
Yr 13 Personal Statements
PASS = College values & TK
Induction
LP = Sentence structure
Change
UCAS applications, personal statement
writing books, stress books, shelf help
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to
change the world. Today I am wise, so I am
changing myself.” Rumi
Fighting invisible tigers – Earl Hipp
(155.518)
www.ucas.com
Reading Can Take You Anywhere
RA – Young adult
Induction (Tues & Thurs)
Sport and Psychology
17/9
Wk 3
International Day of
Peace (21/9)
#peaceday
#standup4humanrights
Yr 12 Planning & managing
time, Mindset
Yr 13 Jobs & Apprenticeships
PASS = Prevent
LP = Sentence structure
Peace
‘The Right to Peace’ 70th
Ann of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Books promoting peace e.g Malala,
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole
world blind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
www.themanbookerprize.com
10 Things To Love About The Know
(wk1) - Staff - RBT
RA - Man Booker previous winners &
shortlist (20/9)
Sport and Psychology
24/9
Wk 4
Banned Books Week
(theme – Censorship,
Banning Books,
Silences Stories)
#BannedBooksWeek
#censorship
@BannedBooksWeek
Yr 12 Settling in, KnowHow,
Study skills
Yr 13 Progress & resilience
PASS = The
Challenge/Volunteering
LP = Sentence structure
Censorship
“Censorship is the child of fear and the
father of ignorance.” Laurie Halse Anderson
Harry Potter – J K Rowling
http://bannedbooksweek.org
RA - Banned Books Week (theme –
Censorship, Banning Books, Silences
Stories)
10 Things To Love About The Know
(wk2) – Spaces - PRB
Sport and Psychology

9. Digital Learning Strategy
•Wide ranging
•Resources Group
•JISC Student Digital Tracker
•INSET/CPD
•Team 14 hours CPD/R & D

10. • Digital skills* audit for all staff.
Priority 5: Improve Digital Literacies
Description/Objective Actions Lead By when Jun-17 Dec-17 Mar-
18
Jun-18 Monitoring and Impact
There is limited digital
learning in SoW
SoW to include digital learning* where possible and use a range of
strategies as outlined in the Info Lit Strategy
LAY Jun-18 New SoW 'we'do & we will'
promoted to CLs
Range of support/ materials
for digital literacies* is
limited or difficult to access
Develop online content using KnowHow/KnowHow2 portals. CWR/PT Jun-18 Work in progress to develop
GSuite site.
Progress Tutors to bring digital literacy* into Tutorial SoW and
develop OSFC Learn within KnowHow
L2 pilot went very well and
feedback great but timetabling
problems 18/19 mean that this
can't be repeated in this format,
so online delivery being explored.
Students need to be
equipped with basic digital
literacy* skills for learning
and employment.
Develop a comprehensive programme of digital literacies* to be
delivered via Study Skills, Tutorial and throughout the Curriculum –
to include using KnowHow, OSFCLearn, iKnow and other online
resources
CWR/JPL/
PTs
Jun-18 INSET & 5X5 delivered throughout
the year. New offer launched w/c
5/11 for rm 41. Impact needs to
be assessed.
A high level of digital skills* is
required for all employees in
the digital age
Consider a minimum level of job related digital skills* & Digital
skills* audit for all staff.
CWR/LAY/
PMY
Jun-18 Not looked at this yet. no
progress. Is it desirable? If so
what?

11. Current projects
• Reading for pleasure/GCSE English
• Level 2 online digital literacies course
• Digital competencies/employability skills
• KnowHow
• GSuite
• Fake News/Disinformation
• AR/VR

12. Any Questions?
• Corinne Walker
• 0161 287 8000 ext. 2314
• cwr@osfc.ac.uk
• @knowosfc
• lkk @knowosfc