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Become a Student Ambassador for Digital Literacy!

Are you:

passionate but critical in your use of technology for study and for leisure?

looking to improve your digital literacy skills for study, the workplace and your daily life?

someone to inspire and share their ideas with others?

If so then we need you!

LSE has some incredible opportunities for personal development and this is your chance to get involved!

The Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy (SADL) project explores the use of new technologies in an academic context. You will receive training on writing for blogs, maintaining a social media presence and managing information resources; these skills will be vital in your future career. Participation in this project will also be recognised in your LSE Personal Development Aide Memoir (PDAM). Check out the SADL blog to discover students’ experiences from the previous two years.

Recruitment is now open for 2015/2016! We are looking for undergraduate students in year 1 and 2.For more details about the programme, job description, person specification and how to apply see the Get Involved section on our blog. Closing date is Friday 9th October at midnight (Week 2).

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Re-Imagining Our Library - what next?

In what will soon be new postgraduate study space on the first floor of the LSE Library, students and library staff discussed their vision for the future of the library. Students were told that the lower ground floor, fourth floor and parts of the first floor are being transformed in the next few years and gave their own thoughts on these and other changes.

Some developments were clearly welcomed, including the abolition of library fines, the extra study space in the course collection area and the plan to make the fourth floor student study space. Others were not, such as proposals looking at reducing numbers of fixed PC points and banning all food from the library. Interestingly, many students also highlighted the behaviour of other students, such as the practice of ‘saving’ desks for hours on end, as a major problem in the library, as well expressing the perennial desire for more study space and plugs.

So what happens now? Well I am taking the feedback from the event to the Library Services Committee next week, where I will ensure that progress is made on the issues highlighted and push for students’ views to influence the plan for the future of library.

I would like to thank everyone who attended and the library for making the event possible. If you have any feedback on the library or anything else at all, email me at:

[email protected]