Pamela Tulloch, SLIC CEO

1. Enriching Lives through Libraries
Pamela Tulloch
Scottish Library and Information Council
Chief Executive
Email: p.tulloch@scottishlibraries.org
@SLICCEO

2. Who remembers 1991?
• Films
• Music
• Books
• Politics

3. What is the Scottish Library and Information Council?
• Independent Advisory Body to
the Scottish Government
• Company limited by Guarantee
and a registered charity
• 76 library services are members

4. Our Key Priorities
• Advocacy
• Partnership
• Innovation
• Standards
• Funding

5. Advocacy
What does advocacy look like?
• Communication
• Promotion
• Networking

6. Advocacy – everyone’s responsibility
• Libraries are being more creative
• User engagement important

7. Partnerships
• Library Sector
• Literary Sector
• Digital partners
• Organisations with mutual
objectives

8. Partnerships are powerful
• Libraries have a strong history of
partnership working
• Stronger working together
• Involving users works

9. Innovation
• Code Clubs
• Every Child a Library Member
• Film Education in Libraries
• 3D printing
• One Card
• Wikimedian in Residence

10. Libraries have always innovated
• Libraries have always moved
with the times and been ahead
of the curve
• Access to knowledge in all
shapes and forms is important
for individuals
• Libraries continue to ensure
users have access to opportunity

11. Funding
• Public Library Improvement
Fund
• School Library Improvement
Fund
• Innovation and Development
Fund

12. Funding as a catalyst
• It takes one idea
• It takes the right people
• It takes leadership

13. Dare to Dream
• Funding opportunities enable
libraries to try out new things
• Range of creativity in funding
applications
• Libraries are essentially about
people

14. Standards
• How Good is our Public Library
Service?
• Further Education Library
Standards
• School Library Standards
• Evaluations – Every Child a Library
member/Prison Library
Services/Use of Volunteers in
Libraries

15. Staff Development
• Hold a number of cross sectoral
conferences and event eg.
Annual Showcase where all
sectors present and attend
• Libraries, Literacies and Learning
event

16. Supporting members
• On the ground through SLIC
projects
• One off courses and workshops
• Full day events

18. National Strategy for School Libraries
• To be completed by Summer
2018
• £1Million School Library
Improvement Fund
• School Library standards – How
Good is our School Library?

19. Where Next?