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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: [log in to unmask] 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/