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**apologies for cross posting** There are only a few days left to book the CILIPS Conference at the earlybird rate. Prices go up this Monday and we only have a handful of places left so please book soon if you wish to attend the event on June 3-4th in Dundee : https://www.cilips.org.uk/about/annual-conference-2019/ Our cross-sectoral programme features: - Christian Lauersen, Director of Libraries and Citizen Services in Roskilde Municipality - Jane Cowell, CEO of Yarra Plenty Regional Library service, Australia - Sue John, Enterprise Development Manager, Glasgow Women’s Library - Lucy Crompton-Reid, Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK - Kirsty Lingstadt, Head of Digital Library and Deputy Director of Library & University Collections at the University of Edinburgh - Hope, Opportunity and Redemption: What books bring to our prisons - Erwin James, Editor in Chief of Inside Time and Guardian columnist and contributor - Libraries and the campaign to end loneliness - Anne Callaghan, Campaign Manager, Scotland - Continued ambition and opportunity - the refresh of the Public Libraries strategy - Shelf Help - school libraries supporting pupil's wellbeing - Pamela McLean, Librarian, St Ninian's High School - Diversity and inclusivity in the library profession - Heena Karavadra, Academic Librarian, University of Leicester - The Summer Reading Challenge - an update - 21st Century Reading: Text and Data Mining Skills for Scotland - Fred Saunderson, Rights and Information Manager and Ines Byrne, Digital Transition Manager at the National Library of Scotland - Leveraging libraries. Community, open access and Wikimedia– Jason Evans, National Library of Wales Wikimedian in Residence and Delphine Dallison, SLIC’s Wikimedian in Residence - Libraries on the Move - A report on Scotland's mobile libraries - Alyson Tyler, library researcher - Health literacy – what does this mean to you? - Workshop - Scotland's Reading Strategy – Judy Dobbie, Dundee Libraries and Marianne Bamkin, Research Fellow in Information Science and Librarianship (BCU) - The impact and value of public libraries - 100 years after the death of Andrew Carnegie - Jenny Peachey, The Carnegie UK Trust - Open Access and Scotland's University libraries - Libraries Change Lives - The Mitchell Library and Citizen Advice Bureau working together - Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards - a practical workshop from the Youth Libraries Group Scotland - Vivian French, writer/illustrator and Jennifer Horan, Chair of YLGS - Embedding GDPR within your information and library service - David Smith, Former Chair of the CILIP Knowledge and Information Management Group and Director of DJS Management Solutions Limited - Innovation in a school library and supporting young people's mental health - Shelagh Toonen, Librarian, Elgin Academy and Scotland's Library and Information Professional of the Year 2018 - A unique national resource - The Scottish Poetry Library review - Asif Khan, Director and Maria Carnegie, Head Librarian Scotland's Academic Libraries and their engagement with social media - research by Ian Feerick, University of Strathclyde - A workshop on the new Bookbug app - Scottish Book Trust - Conference dinner featuring the presentation of Scotland's Library and Information Professional of the Year 2019 and some surprise entertainment *please note final titles of presentations may change Thanks Sean McNamara | Head of CILIP in Scotland ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LIS-PUB-LIBS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=LIS-PUB-LIBS&A=1