Guide to Certification and Chartership

Guide to Certification and Chartership – Thursday 8^th May, Melton Carnegie Museum, 1.30 – 4.30pm

This session is for candidates that are working towards Certification and Chartership using the new criteria.

 

To book your place contact Helen Drakard email: helen.drakard@leics.gov.uk phone: 0116 3053653.

East of England Launch Event, Cambridge 28 March 2014

East of England are holding a launch event and revalidation session in Cambridge on Friday 28th March. East Midlands members welcome to attend, further details from:
Maria Giovanna De Simone mariagiovannacolli@gmail.com
CILIP East CSO

Visit to a School Library: John Port School, Etwall, Derbyshire, 12 June

East Midlands Regional Member Network

visit to

John Port School, Etwall, Derbyshire DE65 6LU

Thursday 12 June 2.00 to 4.00

This visit has been organised by the East Midlands RMN with the following aims in mind:

·        To support candidates for Chartership and Certification

·        To help those who for are looking for another post, or are currently not working, to keep up to date with developments across various sectors of libraries

·        To give broader knowledge to those who have worked only in one sector

There is no cost to participants

Kathryn Durkan, Librarian and Careers Co-ordinator, will give a tour of the library and talk about the work done by the library staff. Kathryn is fortunate to have a graduate trainee so will be able to give some insight into the role.

There will be time for networking over refreshments.

For more information about the library please see:

www.johnport.derbyshire.sch.uk/Information/Learning-Resources-Centre/

To book please e-mail Mary Bryceland by Friday 31 May

mary.bryceland@slcollege.ac.uk

 

Libraries Change Lives Award 2014 – Shadowing Opportunity – New Professional or Student

The Libraries Change Lives Award 2014  is now open for entries and we are launching a shadowing opportunity for either a Young professional or a Student to be part of the Libraries Change Lives Award  Judging process and to attend the CILIP Big Day in September where the Winner will be announced.

You must have:

•         a demonstrable interest in, and passion for promoting the capacity of libraries to make a positive change to people's lives.

•         an understanding of the CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award.

You must be a member of CILIP.

The requirement is to attend an LCLA 2014 meeting after 30 April (closing date of LCLA 2014 entries)  and the CILIP Big Day in September with travel expenses available.

 

If you would like to be considered, please provide a statement (maximum 250 words) with the reasons why you should be offered this opportunity by Monday 31st March 2014.

 

For more information:

http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/advocacy-awards-and-projects/awards-and-medals/cilip-libraries-change-lives-award

Community,  Diversity and Equality Group who organise the award with CILIP - http://www.cilip.org.uk/community-diversity-and-equality-group/community-diversity-and-equality-group-about-us

Send to: Linda Constable, Chair of Libraries Change Lives Judging Panel, linda@lindaconstable.com<mailto:linda@lindaconstable.com>

Librarian's Skillbook Skill#3: Digital Archiving

Hunt and Grossman (2013) state that digital archiving goes hand in hand with digitization and electronic indexing. It involves all the tasks centred around organising the digital archive. Many organisations are looking to save space by digitizing their records and this process also facilitates better access and preservation. Librarians already possess many of the skills necessary for archival work, with many smaller archives being a hybrid collection of books, papers and ephemera relating to a central theme. There are archival standards, such as Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) (I'm not sure if these are American or used internationally). They are basically a set of rules that can be used to describe and catalogue an archival item. Hunt and Grossman suggest that gaining some experience of archival and digital cataloguing will widen employment opportunities.

Hunt, Deborah and Grossman, David  (2013) Librarian's Skillbook: 51 essential career skills for information professionals

The Librarian's Skillbook Skill #2: Electronic Indexing

Following on from Skill#1: Digitizing, the next skill in the Librarian's Skillbook is knowing how to index and catalogue items that have been digitized. This will make these items more meaningful and accessible to users. In my own work I am actually using Heritage Cirqa (ISOxford) to catalogue items from the archives. I realise this is probably not the best tool to use but I use Heritage as a main library catalogue and I wanted users to be able to conduct a single search to find items of interest in both the library and the archives. I am finding it a challenge as cataloguing something like a handwritten letter is totally different from cataloguing a book. I am learning that it is important to keep collections together as they are donated then cross reference them using keywords and dates.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone else who is using Heritage within an archive.

CILIP Mentor Training, Loughborough, 18 February 2014

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a background to mentoring, a basic framework for conducting mentoring both long and short term.

The focus of the event is to enable participants to develop effectively as mentors in the context of the CILIP professional registration scheme.
Mentor training is a requisite for becoming a CILIP Mentor and this course is suitable for all CILIP members who have recently registered as CILIP mentors or are thinking of registering.

Do come along and find out more about the mentoring scheme.

EVENT DETAILS

A one day workshop provided on behalf of the East Midland’s Regional Member Network of CILIP.

Date of Training: 18 February 2014

Time: 9:30 to 4:30, with the half-day CILIP scheme only session from 2:00pm to 4:30pm

Venue Location: Loughborough Library, Granby Street, Loughborough, LE11 3DZ
Here is a location map for the library

Facilitator(s): Carol Brooks E-mail: Carol Brooks

COST OF EVENT
FREE to currently registered members of CILIP.

Non-CILIP members: £50 (inc. VAT) for the morning session on mentoring skills.

Lapsed CILIP members: £50 (inc. VAT) for the full day's session.

REFRESHMENTS AND LUNCH DETAILS Tea and coffee will be provided. Please bring your own lunch.

To book please go to this link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EMidsMentorTraining

East Midlands Regional Member Network

Members Day

Derby QUAD

Market Square, Derby DE1 3AS

March 19^th 2014  9.30 (10.00 start) – 3.30

Speakers:

·    Kay Grieves and Michelle Halpin, University of Sunderland – Adventures in Conversation; experimenting with strategic marketing and cultural change to nurture positive customer relationships.

Kay and Michelle will also lead a workshop session How do you like your eggs in the morning? A simple 7 step toolkit for creating strategic marketing plans that really work.

 

·       Annie Mauger, Chief Executive, CILIP

     You are now the East Midlands Regional Member Network

     CILIP developments - governance changes etc

     Launch of new Professional Registration

The AGM of East Midlands Regional Network will take place at 12 noon – members will not be charged if they wish to attend the AGM only.

 

There will be a charge of £10 (payable on the day)

To reserve a place, please email the information below to: kath_owen@yahoo.co.uk.

The closing date for applications is March 1^st 2014
 

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East Midlands Regional Member Network

Members’ Day Booking Form

Name: 

Job Title:

Employer: 

Contact e-mail: 

There will be a charge of £10.00 to be paid on the day.

If you require a receipt to reclaim this through petty cash from your employer; please ask for a receipt when you pay.

If you require an invoice for your employer please provide a name and e-mail for the invoice to be sent out:

Do you have any access requirements? 

Do you have any dietary requirements? 

Closing date for applications is March 1st 2014.

Please note that you will not receive an immediate acknowledgment of your booking. This may not be sent out until the beginning of March

 

The Librarian's Skillbook: Skill 1 - Digitization

Happy New Year everyone!

So as I wrote in a previous post, I'm going to try and work through The Librarian's Skillbook: 51 essential career skills for information professionals by Deborah Hunt and David Grossman (2013). It is an American book, but that might be good for me as I work at a study abroad college owned by an American University.

Skill 1: Digitization.

Hunt and Grossman urge us to try and get some experience with working on a digitization project - large or small. I have an ideal opportunity here, as I have just started cataloguing our archives which include a variety of documents - hand written letters, photographs, maps. A small number of these have already been scanned and are stored on an internal server, but I would like to look at ways to open up access to a wider audience. Creating a blog maybe? I am particularly impressed with this example from Abingdon School http://www.abingdon.org.uk/63objects/.

Is anyone else working on a similar project?

LD

Visit to West Bridgford Library - Tuesday 28th January 2014

East Midlands Regional Member Network

Visit to West Bridgford Library

Tuesday 28^th January 2014 2.00 – 4.00p.m.

Bridgford Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 6AT

 

At a time when most public library authorities (including Nottinghamshire) are suffering reductions in budgets, politicians saw fit to continue with the long awaited replacement of West Bridgford Library which opened in March 2013.

Come and visit this impressive building and hear what local staff have to say about it.

This a good opportunity to network with colleagues and pick up some new ideas.

Please note that that although there is plenty of parking next to the library it is only for 2 hours and has the keenest set of traffic wardens  imaginable.  The session will therefore run strictly to time. There is good public transport from the city centre and the station is about 20 minutes walk away. There is limited street parking in the vicinity.

Please inform Kath Owen kath_owen@yahoo.co.uk if you wish to join us. The visit is free and tea/coffee will be provided.