Good Morning
*Apologies for cross posting*
The earlybird rate for the CILIP in Scotland Conference ends this Friday 8th April. Registrations are filling up fast for the event taking place on June 6-7th in the Dundee Apex Hotel and we hope to see you there.
Full details: http://www.cilips.org.uk/cilips-conference-2016/
To book a place: https://cilips.formstack.com/forms/cilipsconference2016
We are very excited to feature the following this year:
- Theresa Breslin - CILIP in Scotland President and Carnegie Medal Winning Author leading the Conference
- James Robertson - Author and Poet
- Jan Holmquist - Assistant Library Director at Guldborgsund Libraries
- Stuart Hamilton - Director of Policy and Advocacy at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Colin Cook - Head of Digital Public Services and Business Transformation Division, Scottish Government
- New for 2016 - In response to feedback from last year we are introducing a new feature this year - 2 informal discussion cafes presented by the the Glasgow Women's Library (Monday) and the Scottish Poetry Library (Tuesday)
- Stewart Bain, Orkney Libraries - The successful use of social media in Orkney
- Helen Blanchett, JISC - Open Access, good practice in Further and Higher Education in Scotland
- Mhairi Cook and Lisa Morton, North Ayrshire Libraries - The CILIP award winning Appiness project (funded through the SLIC Public Library Improvement Fund)
- Gavin Johnstone, Falkirk Libraries - Minecraft project in Falkirk funded through the SLIC Public Library Improvement Fund
- Scottish PEN – The international writer’s association will be joining us to talk all about freedom of expression.
- Ian Clark, co-founder of the public library advocacy campaign Voices for the Library, the Radical Librarians Collective and the journal Informed - Radical Librarianship
- Carnegie Library Lab presenting a Scottish case study from one of the successful applicants
- Shona Hill, speaking on behalf of Share the Vision, a partnership of UK libraries and library organisations that work together to improve the accessibility of library services for print disabled people
- Peggy Hughes, Manager of Literary Dundee, will be sharing her experiences and lessons learned from running the Dundee Literary Festival
- Gary Green, Voices for the Library - The Library A-Z
- Ross McCulloch, Third Sector Lab - Thinking strategically about social media in libraries
- A session on reader development from the Reader Development Network Scotland and the the Reading Agency
- A talk on CPD looking at the value of Personal Learning Networks (Donald MacLean, Perth College) and the CILIP Virtual Learning Environment
Regards
Sean McNamara
CILIP in Scotland
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