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Fourth secondee joins the Taskforce

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 5 January 2016 - Categories: Digital, Taskforce
Darren Smart

Following the whistlestop recruitment process announced in our post on 19 November, I’d like to introduce Darren Smart who joined us on 4 January to work full-time as the latest member of the team of secondees focussing on digital issues. …

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Library transformation in Staffordshire

Posted by: Ben Adams, Posted on: 4 January 2016 - Categories: Good practice, Library news
Cllr Ben Adams looks on as Baroness Neville-Rolfe explores the touch screens in the new Stafford library.

Cllr Ben Adams describes their experiences since 2012, ending with opening the new Stafford library

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Finding common purpose

Posted by: Andy Wright, Posted on: 4 January 2016 - Categories: Good practice, Library workforce

Second post from Andy Wright on his secondment to the Wellcome Trust

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A new way of delivering library services in Peterborough

Posted by: Lisa Roberts, Posted on: 21 December 2015 - Categories: Case study, Library news
Open+ in action: a visitor uses her library card to access the library.

Peterborough City Council has approved and implemented a new way of delivering library services in Peterborough.

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Digital Skills Partnerships in Libraries

Posted by: Nick Stopforth, Posted on: 17 December 2015 - Categories: Digital, Library news, Taskforce
Visitors using library PCs in Canford Cliffs, Poole.

Libraries continue to provide a very significant contribution to digital inclusivity in communities.

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Need some advice? Want to know what others are doing? Try our new Toolkit....

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 16 December 2015 - Categories: Good practice, Taskforce
Screenshot of Libraries Shaping the Future Toolkit

I'm very pleased that we have launched a 'beta' version of a new Toolkit today.

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First impressions: working with the Wellcome Trust

Posted by: Andy Wright, Posted on: 15 December 2015 - Categories: Good practice, Library workforce
Facade of the Wellcome Trust building Credit: Wellcome Library, Loncon. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Facade of the Wellcome Trust building in Euston, shot during the daytime. 08/11/2012 Facade of the Wellcome Trust building Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc-nd 4.0, see http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/page/Prices.html

Andy Wright is two weeks into his six month secondment at Wellcome Trust

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RNIB Talking Books go FREE

Posted by: Julie Gibson, Posted on: 14 December 2015 - Categories: Library news
Lady enjoying an audio book

RNIB’s Talking Books service was originally launched in 1935 to help soldiers blinded in the war.

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Somerset autism collection

Posted by: Anne Nicklen, Posted on: 10 December 2015 - Categories: Case study, Good practice, Library news
Launch of the Somerset libraries autism collection

Librarian Anne Nicklen blogs about Somerset's new collection of materials on autism

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Visits to libraries in Newcastle, York and Stafford

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Posted on: 4 December 2015 - Categories: Library news, Taskforce
Victoria Hoyle - city archivist, showing us one of the beautiful old civic charters in the new archive

Branch libraries in Newcastle, the mutual model in York, and a new library opens in Stafford

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