CILIP
OCTOBER 3, 2021
Take action with your library this Libraries Week. This Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021) libraries across the UK showcase their vital role in supporting active and engaged communities as we celebrate the transformative impact libraries can have on people?s
CILIP
AUGUST 8, 2022
Announcement of the 2022 Green Libraries Grants Winners. Selected projects include a range of innovative ideas that will enable libraries to demonstrate environmental understanding and action through local partnerships, community engagement activities and staff, stock and space interventions.
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CILIP
APRIL 20, 2022
Next generation public library LMS. The technology and people underpinning the Library Consortium?s The Library Consortium (until recently the London Library Consortium) has existed since 2002. s library management system was hosted by Axiell.
CILIP
OCTOBER 14, 2019
The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull bring the case for library funding to Parliament. At a Parliamentary event at the House of Lords today, The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull will join forces with CILIP, the UK library association, to make the case for long-term sustainable funding for libraries. Education, informal learning and skills. Speaking on the day of the launch event, CILIP CEO Nick Poole commented, ?We
CILIP
MAY 12, 2020
COVID-19 Guidance for School Libraries. This Guidance has been developed by a Working Party convened jointly by CILIP, the CILIP School Libraries Group (CILIP SLG) and the School Library Association (SLA). all library services resumed?).
CILIP
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Shift happens: the future office/library in a connected world. climate change extreme events). and, yes, the library. So what role can libraries play in the new normal ? Our libraries are cherished and often the strong vocal support for the ?as
CILIP
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries. Last summer Kirklees Libraries recruited two new apprentices as part of a council-wide programme to develop and deliver apprentice opportunities. ve worked for Kirklees libraries for 35 years.
CILIP
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world. Annual Libraries Week celebrations (7-12 October 2019) will showcase how libraries have transformed their digital offer, featuring events and activities in more than 1,000 libraries across the UK. s competition to Build the Library of the Future out of LEGO bricks and win tickets to LEGOLAND Windsor and ?500 500 to donate to a library of your choice. LOVE YOUR LIBRARY? ?
Archive-It
JULY 27, 2022
Guest post by Dana Hamlin, Archivist / Local History Librarian, Waltham Public Library. With the blessing of my boss, I applied right away and my library joined the program in April 2021. The outside of the Waltham Public Library.
CILIP
MARCH 24, 2022
CILIP to deliver specialist skills and knowledge training for GLL public library staff. CILIP and GLL are delighted to announce they are working together in 2022 to provide a bespoke training programme to GLL library staff, with CILIP delivering ten training sessions.
CILIP
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Turning over new leaves: Can outdoor spaces help libraries grow? Turning over new leaves: Can outdoor spaces help libraries grow? ?IF IF you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need,? If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete!?
CILIP
AUGUST 6, 2020
Libraries are not just books ? We need] strong advocates who see the library as a place where STEM-rich learning takes place. ? Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is a key part of conversations about education, policy, the economy, and our future.
Preservica
JUNE 2, 2020
The State Library of South Australia (SLSA) has chosen Preservica’s cloud-hosted active digital preservation platform to safeguard more than 150 terabytes of unique digitized and born-digital material. The State Library of South Australia is the trusted custodian of all South Australiana.
Archive-It
JUNE 30, 2017
The Internet Archive is accepting applications from public librarians to participate in a program of continuing education, training, and services to enable public libraries to build collections of historically-valuable, web published materials documenting their local communities. The Community Webs program is offered by the Internet Archive in partnership with WebJunction, and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. by Sylvie Rollason-Cass.
Archive-It
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Public libraries play a critical role in building community-oriented archives and these collections are particularly important in recording the impact of unprecedented events on the lives of local citizens. Extensive training and educational resources provided by professional staff.
Archive-It
DECEMBER 8, 2020
territories, for a total of 150-200 participating public libraries and heritage organizations. Participants will receive web archiving and access services, training and education, and funds to promote and pursue their community archiving. by the Archive-It team.
Archive-It
JUNE 19, 2018
By Emily Ward, Digital Archivist, East Baton Rouge Parish Library. While watching these events unfold from our smartphones and computers, we in Special Collections at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library realized this information might be in jeopardy of never being acquired and preserved due to a shift in the way information, ephemeral or not, is being created and disseminated. Archiving Spontaneous Events Case Studies Community Webs
CILIP
MAY 17, 2022
Decolonising the library: Making space for new narratives. As Higher Education looks at how to decolonise curricula, Regina Everitt and Jess Crilly ? Both professionally, and in terms of your role with Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries?
Archive-It
MAY 12, 2022
UC Berkeley Library’s Library Information Technology department contributed their Archive-It account to the effort, which now includes approximately 345 GB of data from 59 websites. To that end I am privileged to include the work of Dr. Gudrun Wirtz of Bavarian State Library and Kirill Babeev, a student at the London School of Economics and Political Science, in curating the archive. After just two eventful months of crawling, the web archive already includes 1.7
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
If you look at the source code of this blog you can see it used courtesy of the "integrity" attribute when I embed Report URI JS : <script src="[link] integrity="sha256-Cng8gUe98XCqh5hc8nAM3y5I1iQHBjzOl8X3/iAd4jE=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> If - for whatever reason - that library is modified upstream of my website, the sha256 hash of the file will be different to the one specified above and the browser simply won't run it.
The Schedule
APRIL 20, 2018
The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating. Under this newer access based model, archives and libraries usually do not take custody of the digital objects that comprise the “news”— including images, websites, social media, text, apps, and other content forms. Local library initiatives such as the Ann Arbor News digitization project at the Ann Arbor District Library.
CILIP
SEPTEMBER 9, 2018
This collection was created to replicate a school library and encourages pre-service teachers to consider the learning environment for the children they will teach. As subject librarian, I work closely with the Primary English Team in the Institute of Education and as a team of professionals, we share a belief in the benefits of reading for pleasure for children. Events and book awards. Learning from each event. The first event. 1 Department for Education, 2012.
Archive-It
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
The staff at UNLV’s Special Collections and Archives were shocked and horri fied, and the impact of this tragic event has been shocking and surreal to the Las Vegas community. Photo by Aaron Mayes (Curator for Visual Materials, UNLV University Libraries Special Collections and Archives). As the manager of UNLV’s web archiving program I knew that I wanted to capture what was being said on the Web about this tragic event. Archiving Spontaneous Events Case Studies
CILIP
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The University of Edinburgh has 14,265 staff, of whom 708 staff are in the Information Services Group providing converged library, IT and e-learning services. I took a paper to the Library Management Team meeting outlining the benefits of CILIP professional registration to the library and linked the scheme to the university?s Information Services at the University of Edinburgh is to contribute to national and international leadership within the library ?sector.
Archive-It
APRIL 12, 2021
Foster, manager of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) for Broward County Libraries. The event also featured a musical performance by DJ, educator, and Jazz/R&B soul artist, Lamar Harris. by the Archive-It team.
CILIP
JULY 25, 2022
If anyone can spot how different national library services promote ebooks it is Steve Potash, CEO of OverDrive. High inflation could cause more problems for physical books, with implications for public libraries. Take Toronto Public Library which is only for the city of Toronto.
CILIP
MARCH 23, 2022
After two years as a virtual event, this year?s s conference returns to an in-person event, giving CILIP members and the wider information professional community the chance to meet up and share ideas. Rob Green looks at what you can expect from the event and speakers.
Preservica
DECEMBER 29, 2022
From academic institutions and government agencies to corporate businesses and the health sector, 2022 was full of world events that will shape our history forever. The economic slowdown added new realities of shifting to digital working, and regional conflicts, like the War in Ukraine, reminded us to record events as history unfolds—no matter how gruelling it is to document.
CILIP
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
The event takes place at London's Olympia centre on 16 and 17 October, with a day of workshops taking place on 15 October. My parents were very poor, but our town had an excellent public library that I practically moved into. s Near Future Library Symposium. ve always thought that Jisc was a great way to share the costs of national infrastructure for research and education, and I feel privileged to lead Jisc?s Do our libraries need to recruit data scientists?
Archive-It
MARCH 15, 2023
The Human Rights web archive collection at Columbia University Libraries Columbia University has been collecting human rights focused web content for over 14 years. Community calendar You can also catch up with Internet Archive staff, web archiving partners, and peers at these upcoming events: Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Annual Conference , April 18-21 – Mexico City, Mexico.
CILIP
JULY 11, 2022
These are not exclusive to the information, knowledge and library professions, and their impact will be felt across all communities. Those targets are ambitious and the scale of climate change crisis can seem daunting, but libraries are well placed to become part of the solution. Title.
CILIP
OCTOBER 3, 2022
A public library’s digital presence is confined to its local authority’s website. The Libraries Consortium has launched a platform that escapes this one-dimensional transactional world. YES, public libraries in the UK do already have a digital presence. Events.
CILIP
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Lee Child and Libraries. ? Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 takes place on 27 January and like every year there will be opportunities for libraries to get involved. WHAT we learn in libraries has a lasting impact on our lives. Learning in libraries. ?Libraries
CILIP
MARCH 21, 2022
Executive Director of the Ukraine Library Association, Yaroslava Soshynska, talks to Rob Green about life in Ukraine as Russia wages war on its neighbour, the role of libraries in the country and how moral support is keeping people strong. libraries saving lives?,
Unwritten Record
JANUARY 24, 2023
The purpose of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is to serve as a date for the official commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime and to promote Holocaust education. Political Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany.
Unwritten Record
JANUARY 3, 2023
In December 1940, the Paris Bureau of the New York Times was seized by the Nazis and its Library of New Photos was transported to Berlin. The photographs that make up 306-NT were originally part of the New York Times photo morgue for the Paris Bureau of the newspaper.
CILIP
OCTOBER 10, 2018
There are circumstances in which the educator may wish to create their own subjective models, specifically to meet their instructional purposes. For example, it might provide an assessment tool for the educator or guide the teacher/librarian when planning their interventions. Is any particular perspective or philosophical orientation brought to bear on the events? School Libraries in View, 40, 2016, pp. Higher EducationAndrew Shenton?s
CILIP
MARCH 27, 2020
The Public Health England Knowledge and Library Services Team have developed a comprehensive set of information resources about the virus, its symptoms and how to promote public health - [link]. If your library, information or knowledge service is to be fully-closed. Public Libraries.
CILIP
DECEMBER 13, 2021
This year, a new Disability Network has been established alongside the existing BAME Network and LGBTQ+ Network and it was a great pleasure to attend their launch event featuring a performance from poet Karl Knights. to promote collaboration between libraries in the UK and overseas.
The Schedule
JULY 20, 2020
This is a free event, but you need to register in advance in order to receive the instructions for joining our Zoom session. In addition to our brief business meeting, we’ll have six panelists present lightning talks and respond to your questions about doing records management work within academic libraries. Then we’ll conclude our meeting by hosting breakout sessions to focus in on a particular aspect of records management work, including: RIM education.
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