With the ever popular Library Camp just around the corner, here's a chance to put some of the things that will be discussed to good use:
Speak Up For Libraries Public Library Conference
Date: 10th November
Time: 10.00am to 4.30pm
Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Cost: £20.00 per person
The day-long event will pull together library campaigners and supporters from across the UK and give them the opportunity to build on their existing campaigning skills and tactics, share ideas and strategies, and focus on a way forward to make their local campaign as effective as possible, with the goal of ensuring library services are supported and protected, now and in the future.
As well as providing an update on the state of the UK library service and the extensive work undertaken by campaigners across the UK to protect libraries in the past twelve months, there will be a range of workshop sessions exploring a variety of topics from the law and legal challenges, volunteers, alternative forms of governance including privatisation and outsourcing, influencing decision-makers, and how best to utilise local support in a community to protect services under threat.
Thanks,
Ian Clark
Special Resources Assistant Librarian,
Augustine House,
Canterbury Christ Church University
Tel. 01227 782378
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