The trainees need access to a computer to read the coursework and enter their findings, into their personal online Learning Log.  They may need access to a colour printer.  They will also need their own personal email address, although this will have already been organised by your course Co-ordinator.  Trainees may need explicit permission to go online and explore sites on the internet, if this is not the habit of staff in your library.

Trainees need to be able to undertake experiments with display and have permission to approach borrowers and talk to them.  Trainees will also need your permission to use small amounts of stock and shelving for their experiments. 

On average, a trainee will need around three or four hours online and offline to complete a module.  Your co-ordinator will have more specific advice, based on their own experience with other trainees and supervisors.

The time spent doing the course is split between online work and practical work in the library.  It is designed to be taken in short bites, and to fit in with work in the library.  Reading through a module, or entering work online is quite quick, but is best done without interruption.  The time that takes might be identified and timetabled.  Allow about an hour online for each module in total, but this will be split into short sessions where the instruction is read and the trainee goes off to do something practical in response, then returns to enter findings. 

The way the course is taken is flexible, and so it may not always be helpful to dedicate fixed hours for trainees to do the course – for instance in the first module, a trainee can spend half an hour online reading the course work, but then they are asked to interview a range of borrowers, using what they have learned, and then return and enter the results of their interviews.  Clearly this work can be split up over time, and the task may not be able to be accomplished all at once during time set aside exclusively for work on the course.