You are warmly invited to the next International Library and
Information Group (ILIG) Informal
A Travelling Librarian encounters the Caribbean in the US:
collaboration, partnership and the Haiti Earthquake
Date: Wednesday, 8th June 2011
Time: 18.00 - 19.45
Place: CILIP HQ, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Cost: FREE (but please confirm attendance by emailing Alice Tyler:
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David Clover, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Librarian and Senior
Academic Liaison Librarian at Senate House Library, was one of two
successful applicants to the 2010 English Speaking Union/CILIP
Travelling Librarian Award visiting research libraries with strong
Caribbean Studies collections in Florida, North Carolina, Illinois and
New York. He is actively involved in subject groups for Africa, the
Caribbean, Canada and Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
David will talk briefly about the ESU/CILIP Travelling Librarian Award
and how the scheme works. He will discuss some of the highlights of his
trip to the US, which focused on provision for Caribbean Studies,
including digitisation and collaborative collection development. He
will look in particular at partnerships between US and Caribbean
libraries with the Digital Library of the Caribbean as an example of
one collaboration, discussing the project and how working on a
collaborative digitisation project led to relationships that were
further developed after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Further details about the ESU/CILIP Travelling Librarian Award are
available online at http://tinyurl.com/travellinglibrarian
Directions to CILIP: http://www.cilip.org.uk/contact-us/pages/map.aspx
The access codes for the building are E, G, W, X.
ILIG Informals are not lectures; they are informal, but informative,
early evening meetings with a short talk on a theme of international
interest plus plenty of time for questions and networking. They are
open to all and absolutely free. Light refreshments are served which is
why we ask you to let us know you are coming by contacting us by 5th
June. We look forward to seeing you.
The International Library and Information Group is a special interest
group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals, registered charity number 313014.
http://www.cilip.org.uk/ilig/
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