Pam McKinney here live blogging from the LILAC conference in the first in-person conference for more than 2 years! This presentation is from Ruth Jenkins and Christine Love-Rodgers talking about the evaluation of a programme of consultations offered to student researchers at the university of Edinburgh. Students reported that their search skills were improved and felt guided in their approach to literature searching. They felt better able to manage the data they found, and were able to use more new resources e.g. grey literature. In the period after the consultations students reported long lasting changes in practice. Consultations would take around 30 minutes for Arts and humanities subjects, but around an hour for science and medicine subjects due to the focus on systematic reviews. The majority of the students taking up this service offer were postgraduate. Many students were referred to the service by their lecturer, so working to promote the service with academic staff is key.
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