COVENTRY LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES

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• Background to Libraries and Information Services
  in the
• United Kingdom
• Funding
• Framework for the Future
• Performance

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• Coventry in Context/Communities
• Profile
• Developments
• Coventry Community Plan

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• Profile Migration post 1945
• Census 2001 data on migration
• Census 2001 data on Ethnicity
• Census 2001 data on Religion

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Profile 2001 Census - Ethnicity
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• Developments
• Social Inclusion Plan/Action Plan
• Multicultural Services Action Plan
• Minority Groups Support Services

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• Coventry Community Plan
• Citywide consultation
• Broad membership
• Agreed Priorities
• specific targets

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• Acquisition of Materials/Resources
• Overall Budget
• AV budget
• ICT budget
• Microsoft Office available in all libraries
• 3 libraries have specific INDIC language
  word-processing packages
• suppliers

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COVENTRY LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION
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• Acquisition of Materials/Resources
• Stock selection policy
• CILLA - Co-operative of Indic Language Library
  Authorities
• Fiction and non-fiction stock in the following
  languages
• Bengali from Bangladesh and India, Gujarati,
  Hindi, Panjabi, Tamil, Urdu from India and
  Pakistan
• Bibliographic records - incomplete
• Collection Development Team
• Seals
• Polish Circulating Library

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• Experience of library use/non use
• 1997 Non-User Survey
• 2000 User Survey
• 2001 Best Value Inspection
• Ethnicity and Citizenship, Morrison and Roach -
  national research

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• Consultation
• SPICE - Specialist Group, West Midlands
• ACLA -African Caribbean Library Association
• Chinese Librarians Group
• Vietnamese Librarians Group

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• Promotion of service/marketing
• Library design
• Guiding
• Community activities

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• Challenges
• ESOL
• Non-availability of certain languages
• Recreational materials
• Mainstreaming
• Funding
• Multi-culturalism or Black Ethnic Minority or
• Multi-lingual

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Andrew Green City Librarian Coventry Libraries
and Information Services andrew.green_at_coventry.gov
.uk Mo Bains Community Librarian Coventry
Libraries and Information Services msbains2002_at_yah
oo.co.uk