Dear Mumsnet
My name is Afolake Akinfe and I am an Information Services professional, a Librarian,
With the advent of COVID19, an alternate mode of providing access to specific study support resources, covering the subjects of the national curriculum at the different key stage levels, has highlighted a need for a curated platform of collated material for home study. In addition, galvanised the Information Professional world to prioritized advocacy for an alternate mode of access and delivery by all information Professionals in support of Learning at home and how to support parents.
To facilitate this, it is particularly important to investigate and understand the previous trends; learning resources access, categories and mindsets of how or what parents were used to, prior to COVID19, e.g. how they monitored their children’s study, , accessed study support resources at home, in the evenings, on weekends and whilst on the move.
I, as an information professional believe that advocacy is the best way forward as a form of contribution to the narrative of supporting learning at home. This enquiry will be undertaken in the form of a 1-minute survey. This will elicit data to enable Information professionals/ Librarians to discover how to create alternate modes of access to study resources during this era of lockdown, specifically, Digital Access. The end game for this, is to recreate a study support system, based on usage trend of parents on how or what category service was available prior COVID19.
Note:The survey is anonymous. Your support is urgently needed to find an alternate form of resources in providing learners access to online resources, so please visit and participate.
The first phrase is to ask parents/carers/families of secondary school age children, questions their child’s school Library. This is a short survey, which will lead to the next survey in a series of 3.
As Mumsnet Linkedin Members: Please direct your members to the survey on my page at : Linkedin(.www.linkedin.com/in/aoakinfe) The post survey title is: TO LIBRARY OR NOT TO SCHOOL LIBRARY?
I will wait to hear from you
Kind Regards
Ao Akinfe