Libraries provide valuable community services and resources including meeting spaces, educational programs, and access to technology. Staff are often embedded within their local communities. To better serve communities, libraries need to [1] improve marketing and outreach to change public perceptions, [2] empower staff and give them freedom to explore new ideas, and [3] develop deeper partnerships within communities and across sectors. This will help libraries better understand community needs and establish themselves as vital community hubs.
A Newcomer's Perspective - Challenges and OpportunitiesCILIP Ireland
Jim O'Hagan, Chief Executive, Libraries NI presents a "Newcomer's Perspective" on the challenges and opportunities of leading the public library service in Northern Ireland.
A Newcomer's Perspective - Challenges and OpportunitiesCILIP Ireland
Jim O'Hagan, Chief Executive, Libraries NI presents a "Newcomer's Perspective" on the challenges and opportunities of leading the public library service in Northern Ireland.
The Pickering Public Library will be the heart of an engaged and creative community. We will enrich and inspire the lives of all residents; actively connecting people, ideas and cultures with openness and respect. We will be leaders in information technology, providing access to innovative technology for all. Pickering Public Library will be a destination - a fun place to visit, staffed by a diverse group of individuals who are committed to making a difference in the community.
THIS IS A SPACE FOR ALL. THIS IS MAKER SPACE. MAKE IT YOUR SPACE.
Travelling Librarian 2015 Presentation - Frances ToutFrances Tout
Community engagement projects in United States public libraries - a study tour sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip) and the English Speaking Union (ESU).
Presentation from Colin Bray (Devon Libraries) was part of the Cultural Commissioning National Seminar in Doncaster on the 10th June 2014.
Find out more about Cultural Commissioning Programme. http://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/public-services/cultural-commissioning-programme
The Pickering Public Library will be the heart of an engaged and creative community. We will enrich and inspire the lives of all residents; actively connecting people, ideas and cultures with openness and respect. We will be leaders in information technology, providing access to innovative technology for all. Pickering Public Library will be a destination - a fun place to visit, staffed by a diverse group of individuals who are committed to making a difference in the community.
THIS IS A SPACE FOR ALL. THIS IS MAKER SPACE. MAKE IT YOUR SPACE.
Travelling Librarian 2015 Presentation - Frances ToutFrances Tout
Community engagement projects in United States public libraries - a study tour sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip) and the English Speaking Union (ESU).
Presentation from Colin Bray (Devon Libraries) was part of the Cultural Commissioning National Seminar in Doncaster on the 10th June 2014.
Find out more about Cultural Commissioning Programme. http://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/public-services/cultural-commissioning-programme
NCompass Live - January 29, 2020
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Innovation encompasses far more than technology. One of the most exciting trends in 21st century libraries is the emphasis on restructuring and reinventing our roles in our communities. A huge part of this discussion revolves around the term "Community Engagement". And while this sounds grand and fancy, things often get blurry when we are pressed to define it, implement it, and (the most daunting of all) measure it.
It’s time to cut through ambiguity and put concrete parameters around this evasive topic. This discussion will center around the following questions about community engagement: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and HOW?
Participants will leave with a clear definition of Community Engagement, along with the framework for how to build a Community Engagement plan. One size doesn’t fit all. Your library is uniquely special and to honor this fact, this interactive hour will include brainstorming about what’s right for your library and community. This discussion will be supported by concrete examples and case studies from libraries who have implemented successful community engagement plans.
This conversation is for everyone in the public library. The secret to effective community engagement involves the whole team; we all have an important part to play.
Presenter: Erica Rose, Library Science Faculty/Program Coordinator, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Paper given at the BIALL Conference 'Charting the C's: Collaboration, Co-Operation and Connectivity' 11th June 2015, Brighton, UK.
Paper entitled: Infiltrate and conquer? Showing the world what librarians can do.
CILIP Conference 2020: Changing the library narrative by talking about outcom...CILIP
Bruce Leeke, Chief Executive Officer, Suffolk Libraries
Libraries directly meet and solve some of societies biggest problems - but that's not how funders and policymakers see them. Suffolk Libraries wants to change the narrative, locally and nationally, by finding new and better ways to tell the library story. This session will capture the journey from setting a clear vision, aligning our team behind it and how this led to new thinking designed to influence key stakeholders.
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#buildingorganisationalresilience
Reach out and Touch: Innovation to Connect with Non-Traditional Library Users at Community Colleges
Retha Hall, Central Piedmont Community College
With the proliferation of media options and information, more than ever, libraries are competing with various technological advances in efforts to maintain their visibility and relevance. To address this issue, the CPCC Library conceived and implemented “Librarians on the Go”, an innovative outreach project using technology to expand reference services and to connect with “non-traditional” library users on the Central Campus. In this session, participants will learn how the idea was conceptualized, implemented and the challenges associated with providing services at a community college. Other innovative ideas and experiences on improving and expanding services will also be shared. Through this presentation and discussion attendees will be inspired to think of innovative ways to help extend the scope of library services while creating a presence beyond the bricks and mortar.
Retha Hall is responsible for outreach and marketing, reference and instruction at CPCC’s Hagemeyer Learning Resource Center
Reaching New Audiences with Community DialoguesNCIL - STAR_Net
Staff at the National Center for Interactive Learning at the Space Science Institute have developed a Community Dialogue Strategy to empower public libraries to examine their existing practices, and reach out to their community to ensure that their library is a welcoming and safe environment. This strategy was developed and tested with funds from the National Institutes of Health, NASA and National Science Foundation as part of the STAR Library Education Network. Community Dialogues encourage libraries to ask the questions “who is missing from my library” and “who in the community would be a great partner for my library.” In this webinar, participants will learn more about this innovative strategy, and hear from public library staff who have made positive changes to their practice based on results from their own Dialogues.
Presenter: Angela Glowcheski.
Presented at the virtual Georgia Libraries Conference in October 2020.
Advocacy can feel big, difficult and often exhausting, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how simple advocacy can be and how you can take part. See what tools GLA uses for advocacy and how you can stay up to date on current campaigns and efforts. Attendees will walk away with tips and tools for advocacy.
Envisioning the library of the future is a major research project undertaken by the Arts Council in 2012/13 that will help us to understand the future for libraries, and how we can enable them to develop.
Therese Mathers, Speech and Language Therapist: Ideas and Inspirations to Hav...Rowan Adams
These slides were used by Therese Mathers, Speech and Language Therapist, when she spoke on the topic of 'Ideas and Inspirations to Have Better Conversations' at the HomeHeart elderly care roundtable on March 9th.
For more information visit http://blog.homeheart.org/ or drop Rowan an email: rowan@homeheart.org
This is a presentation (slides & notes) that I gave to the NZ Tertiary Education Libraries Special Interest Group (TELSIG) or LIANZA in November 2013. It looks a little like earlier presentations that I’ve given on the same subject, but this version includes some new influences from 2013 as they have influenced our concepts. The basic elements remain, but a visit to the Hunt Library (NCSU) and some things that I heard at Educause 2013 have really helped us to focus on the technologies in side our future library and why they are so critical for us to embrace.
Libraries are about reading, learning, information and literacy but above all they are about people and communities. Every day when library staff come to work they can make a difference to the people they meet. Norfolk Library and Information Service is proud to have been awarded the Libraries Change Lives Award twice in recent years and Jan will talk about how understanding the needs of communities, being prepared to try something new and being able to demonstrate how the impact that libraries can have not only on individuals but also the priorities of the Council has made a difference in Norfolk.
#cilipconf19
A talk delivered by Lauren Smith at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Catalyst libraries event flipcharts
1. Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Catalysing Communities: the Library Asset
Thu 25 April 2013
Write up – morning activity (flipcharts)
1. Catalyst community – things we have already
Creation of 3 community rooms free of charge –
tea dances for inclusion of the elderly
adult learning classes to help people back into employment
health advice – third sector advice sessions, health MOT, Bodisan Prescription
Local Governance pilots
Community engagement team
Innovative projects with community groups (insites)
Ability/freedom to set projects & own agenda
Partnership with Family Learning Outreach People
Library often the only community building
Inclusive – non judgemental
2. Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Julie Trains – manager of Acomb Explore Centre
Engage with those who don’t use us & why? How can we help?
Meeting space for communities
Research facilities
Meeting /rooms space
Community interaction
Knowledge bank
In Devon:
We have friendly, helpful staff who care about their customers
We have lots of people of all different ages & background coming through the door on a daily basis
We have a wide range of services and resources which can be used for creativity, learning etc
Citizenship – access to online course
Partners – varied range
Great staff, often embedded in their local community anyway –particularly applies to the smaller
libraries
What we do:
Community events: crafts, social
Job careers: CV/interview skills
Health related events
Local History events
ESOL
Emergency fuel payment – during bad winter
Community volunteers who bring fresh perspective & help build (“knit”) networks
Passionate people about their community
Variety of service users (no stigma attached)
Partnership working with Sure Start Centres eg. run courses in libraries such as baby massage
Access to computers & online learning
The physical environment
Strong resilient communities
3. Wednesday, 01 May 2013
The “neutral” identity as opposed to institution
We have:
Libraries at the physical heart of the community
We have trusted neutral environments
We have strong local relationship & knowledge
Space: physical & virtual
Ever increasing range of volunteers & volunteer opportunities. These help provide a valuable an
insight & valuable links into local community resources & needs
Empowering staff
We are starting to “flex” the model – social enterprise, community run libraries
People
Innovative people
Supporting people through hard times – benefits advice, job advice, business start up
Places books services in the heart of the community – children’s centres, cafes etc
Partners
Many links with communities, partners - relationships
Assets (buildings) in those communities
Skilled & trained staff who connect with people
The enterprising local staff
Has more “community ownership” of space
Curiosity & commitment to each other (well at least in past!!!)
Libraries in community buildings – sharing services, resources etc
Conservation/ ESOL Clubs – helps integrate people into the community
Spaces for interaction
Joint Children’s Centre/Libraries
Free internet access supports Jobseekers
4. Wednesday, 01 May 2013
Library Service – has activity driven by public
Staff – skilled & responsive
Support people to set up business
Friend’s Groups /community management boards
Has community space to be developed
Can do attitude
Diversity of view & range of services
Opportunities to volunteer
People
Reputation, neutrality – not as institutional as the “local authority”
Holistic change zones
Local library managers creating partnerships with organisations/companies which impact on their
community, rather than partnerships being made centrally and not necessarily fitting with the
individual local profiles.
Valued as the solution not the problem
Free public access
We have a committed professional workforce
Resources to enable people to help themselves
Libraries are a space anyone can use
Implementation of self service facilities across county (helping people to help themselves)
Provide several services within the libraries – more accessible for the people
Community Hubs/Libraries relevant to local area & community & not one size fits all
Restructure has created community librarian posts to work with community groups, partner
organisations and local communities in general. To create more community events and make
libraries hubs of the community
5. Wednesday, 01 May 2013
The library is the place to go for information and education, eg on local information, to learn about
IT (silver surfers etc)
Staff /People
We listen but could do better – outreach
2. WHAT WE WOULD LIKE/NEED TO DO
o Better PR
o Marketing
o Library Service - remove stereotyping of Libraries and Librarians
o Needs step change public perception
o Need to look ahead - see where we are trying to get to
o Stop setting stuff up without knowing why and for whom
o Emphasis on staff talking to customers in and out libraries
o Library Service needs community commitment to change and develop
6. Wednesday, 01 May 2013
o Innovation
o Working on the future paradigm
o Coordination between services so it is everyone’s problem not somebody’s problem
o Enabling things to move forward when it is needed
o Working in SILO
o Committed staff, outgoing able and build relationships with relationships with the
community
o Need to overcome suspicion on the part of the communities that community
involvement is not enabling the council to make deeper cuts
o Libraries need…. People to want /need them and we them
o Courage to relinquish (some) control
o Need to stop playing at ‘local approach’ versus centralised approach and ‘just do it’
o Maximise the assets of your community (people, talent, history)
o Allowing people to be creative in delivering services – less money/but have to deliver
same or move
o Need:
o more flexible workforce released from desk timetable
o clear management vision
o answers to core services vs ‘extras’ debate
o time to experiment, pilot, plan and establish relationships (everything has to
happen yesterday/should have happened)
o Attitude and behaviour
o Outreach
o Time and skill and formats to enable us to follow new operating models to exploit
being catalysts
o We need a better means of sharing costs with all the users of the library (internal
users)
o Increased external promotion of library services (stop preaching to the converted)
o To be better catalysts – we need to be able to fail and recover sometimes
o Work with library staff to enable them to understand the need for change
o People in roles to support this
o Participation
o We need clarity of vision owned by each community
o Improved connections with others in public sector involved in communities
o Stop thinking that one size fits all
o No idea is a bad idea
o Staff not open or responsive
o More outreach work to engage different communities with the service
o Liberating staff – no idea is a bad idea
o We need freedom to explore possibilities
o Think out of the box
o Listen –outreach – change attitudes
o A more joined up approach by using the resources we have and community
collectively
o Needs; hub feel joined up – community services – health, children’s services, job
advice
o Needs community/library champions
7. Wednesday, 01 May 2013
o We need: to market ourselves, business and entrepreneurial approach, change
perception of our role, be accessible – getting there i.e. Sunday opening
o More time/space to gestate new ideas and to take risk/be open
o Inspiration from the heroism of others
o Needs: sharing/swapping of skills to support community
o To be better, we need: a flexible, organic model
o In Devon:
o we would love to have more time with our staff to spend deepening
connections with their local community
o a nicer and more meaningful relationship with local developed through
genuinely listening and connecting elected members, parish councils,
volunteers, the third sector and library staff
o More stakeholder support, especially senior officer/member, reorganisation of the
library’s role
o Greater community ownership of the resource and a real partnership with the
Library Service to deliver services specific to need of that community
o Take risks
o Right people in the job
o Still need to educate colleagues on; role of libraries – not just about books
o Libraries need community ownership and leadership
o To improve: more outreach and better understanding of the needs of the
community
o In certain times how can we clearly vision the future and believe in those first steps
o Use libraries more as a place to go for services and not just council services
o Bureaucracy
o Freedom to fail
o People
o Change attitudes
o Time
o To be able articulate to others about how we are already catalysts
o Change our image
o SILOS