Dr Gayner Eyre
Head Of Department
A PhD MCLIP AALIA
Contact
Email: gee@aber.ac.uk
Office: 209
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622189
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190
Responsibilities
Managing the Department and Module Co-ordinator.
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate: Current Professional Issues, School Libraries
Postgraduate: School Libraries
Research
Information for lifelong learning, including social aspects of information literacy; Literacy and reading development; School librarianship; Literature and information services for young people; Public libraries and information services.
Current research activitiesSmart Information use in schools: The impact of school libraries on student learning. A three year, three phase project looking at the provision of information services within schools and examining current practice in conjunction with recent technological innovations in order to provide benchmarks and models of best practice. The role of public libraries in supporting literacy as part of UNESCOs Decade of Literacy.
Biography
Prior to returning to the University of Wales to take up my current position, I spent six years as an academic at Charles Sturt University, in Australia, and continue to be an adjunct senior lecturer with that university. Before that I spent approximately twenty years working in public library services in Britain, thirteen of which were in library services to schools and young people. Posts included Head of Library Services to Schools and Young People, Derbyshire County Library Service and Principal Librarian, Young People's Services, Sheffield City Information and Library Services.
Until moving to Australia, I reviewed children’s literature for Junior Education, and was also a panel member and reviewer for the journal’s Best Books of the Year supplement. This was a delight, as children’s literature, and particularly book illustration is one of my passions. In addition, I like art and art history, old movies and Australian wine. I also play golf badly.
Additional Interests
Professional Activities
26 November 2003The basics of a good school Library: Presentation to the Riverina Anglican College with Lyn Hay, Charles Sturt University
19 March 2003 The Internet and fiction: an important relationship in the Information Age. Paper presented to the staff of Hong Kong Central Library, Hong Kong.
26 March 2003 The Internet and fiction: an important relationship in the Information Age. Paper presented to the Singapore Library Association, Singapore.
April 2003 Became member of Library Advisory Group, Anglican College, Wagga Wagga.
10 December 2002 Information Literacy in an Australian School. Presentation to a research seminar, Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth.
25 November 2002 Information Deprivation and Information Poverty guest lectures to postgraduate and undergraduate students at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
20 November 2002 Information Literacy. Paper to the CILIP, Wales Training in the Information Age seminar. Gregynog, Wales.
5 September 2002 Distance learners in the new millennium. After dinner address to distance learning residential school, Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth.
26 May 2000 Information Poverty in Rural Communities. Paper presented to Riverina Regional group of the Australian Library and Information Association at Albury Public Library, Albutry, New South Wales, Australia.
1999 Paper to the AGM of Friends of the Public Library Wagga Wagga.
1993- 1994 Member of Society of County Children’s and Educational Librarians (UK)
1991 Chair, Library Association, Youth Libraries Group, National Committee
1991 Chair, Library Association Carnegie / Kate Greenaway Selection Panel1991 Member of Library Association/Peters Working Party on sponsorship of medals.
1989 -1991 Adviser, Library Service for Children and Education, to the Association of Metropolitan Chief Librarians Group.
1988-1990 Member of Working Party on the Library Association Guidelines for Public Library Services to children and contributing author to the report.
Consultancy
2001 - 2003 Consultancy to Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia – Information Literacy Project
2001 February Consultancy to Hong Kong Public Library Authority - Training in Reference Librarianship for librarians of the new Hong Kong Central Library
1999 June - October Review of the information services for the Greater Murray Area Health Service (NSW, Australia) for the Area Health Authority, Post Graduate Medical Council of New South Wales
Staff Publications
Hay, L and Eyre, G. (2005). "Smart Information Use: An exploration of research and practice." Access, 19 (2), pp 27-30.
Mills, J., Eyre, G., and Harvey, R. (2005) "What makes the provision of e-learning successful? Charles Sturt University's experience in Asia." Education for Information, 19
Eyre, G. (2004) "Towards a literate Australia: The role of public libraries in supporting reading." Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services, 17 (4) pp186-192
Eyre, G. (2003) "Back to basics: The role of reading in preparing young people for the Information Society." Reference Services Review, 31 (3) pp. 219 - 226
Eyre, G. (2003). "Online resources in public libraries - an Australian perspective." UKOLUG Newsletter 4 (4) pp. 23-25
Eyre, G. (2003). "Reading in Australia." In J. Elkin, B. Train and D. Denham (eds) Reading and Reader Development: the pleasure of reading. London, Facet Publishing,
Eyre, G. (2002). "Using the Internet for projects and topics in School." School Librarian 49 (4) pp.175-178
Meloche, J. and Eyre, G.(2001). "A Student Centred Approach to the USE of ICT in Distance Education: A Q Study." Global Digital Library Development in the New Millennium Conference Proceedings.Tsinghua University, Beijing China, pp.521-522.
Eyre, G. (2000). "Jean Ure." School Librarian 48 (2) pp. 64-68
Eyre, G. (2000). "School library services revisited." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 32 (1) pp33-44
Eyre, G. (2000). "The Effect of Local Management of Schools in schools in the UK."Orana 35 (2) pp.7-14
Eyre, G. (1996). "Promoting Libraries and Literature for Children and Young People." In J.Elkin and R.Lonsdale (Eds.) Focus on the Child. London: LA Publishing.
Eyre, G. Ed. Making Quality Count: Promoting Libraries and Literature for Young People. London: Library Association, Youth Libraries Group.