INSPIRE England: a national programme delivered locally

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INSPIRE England a national programme delivered
locally

• Managed access between academic, national and
  public library services
• Inspire in the West Midlands 15th July 2004

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Widening Participation
Raising learner aspirations
LIS workforce development
Inspire England
DCMS Framework for the Future
Inspiring Learning for All
Routes to Knowledge
Resource Sharing in the Knowledge Economy
Social Inclusion
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Information Sharing Partners in Resources for
Education

• What are we trying to achieve?
• What are we building on?
• Inspire partners
• Inspire context
• Inspire deliverables
• Lessons so far
• Known interest in Inspire
• What are we working on now?
• So this is what Inspire is about

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What are we trying to achieve?

• Cross-sectoral access pathway to information
  knowledge for learners
• Link across 875 HE, 4610 public and 3 national
  libraries
• Interweave current network of successful access
  partnerships into single pathway irrespective of
  geography and sector
• All libraries continue to fulfil current
  responsibilities to users
• Managed reciprocal access and referral to other
  libraries with relevant collections and materials
• LIS workforce development building capacity and
  awareness of LIS resources across the UK

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What are we trying to achieve?

• Widen horizons
• Resource-sharing enhances access for all
• Staff more aware of the resources available to
  their primary users from partners
• Resource discovery and information literacy
  enhanced across current users of public and
  academic libraries
• Reach non-users and those currently excluded from
  access to learning opportunities

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What are we building upon?

• Regional National consortia
• Currently 45 regional, national local consortia
  http//www.sconul.ac.uk/SconulAccess.htm
• Significant number include borrowing rights
  across HEIs
• Many cross-sectoral covering public, FE, health,
  some workplace
• Some cross-domain examples (archives/ libraries/
  museums)

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INSPIRE partners

• BL, NLS, NLW
• Learning Skills Council (national widening
  participation programme)
• MLA Council (formerly Resource) regional MLACs
• SCL (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)
• SCONUL
• Scottish Library Information Council

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INSPIRE context overview

• British Library Reaching the Regions
• Empowering the Learning Community/ Inspiring
  Learning for All ELC demonstration projects
• Building on LLiL
• Lifelong Learning, Widening Participation and
  Social Inclusion shared focus
• Framework for the Future Action Plan 2003-06
• WILIP/Routes to Knowledge
• People Flows restoring the balance

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INSPIRE context

• British Library Reaching the Regions
• Programme launched autumn 2002 within the BL's
• Co-operation and Partnership Programme
• Aim
• to increase relevance of BL and its collections
  to a wider public by improving services to users
  in the new political regions
• put the BL on the regional map
• Mechanism working with local partners, through
  the regional Museums, Libraries and Archives
  Councils
• BL as active partner, not merely funder
• Multi-partner programme

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INSPIRE context

• Empowering the Learning Community LIC 2000
• Public and educational libraries in any community
  or region should draw up access maps to enable
  users and learners to reach resources or
  assistance in other libraries on a managed basis
• Training of librarians, resource managers and
  teachers should be coordinated and should include
  ways of developing mutual support
• Public and educational libraries in communities
  or defined geographic areas should establish
  co-operative arrangements to improve services to
  their users

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INSPIRE context

• Building on Libraries Learners in London (LLiL)
• Inspires inspiration
• Launched 5/02 and now enhanced beyond public
  academic to incorporate many special libraries
• Learning from LLiL a major part of the Inspire
  England rollout
• From major metropolitan area to issues of rural
  conurbations, more dispersed populations,
  different transport infrastructure

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LLiL Initial concerns

• Over 600 libraries in London - a complex picture
• Fears over loss of income from external borrower
  schemes in HE
• Security worries
• That there would be overwhelming demand for scant
  resources

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LLiL Negotiating agreements

• Initial agreement was with a steering group of
  the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries in
  London
• Followed by agreements with individual libraries
• Timescale
• Initial negotiations 1 year
• Production of final scheme 2nd year
• Negotiations take time
• Important to have a working operations group

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LLiL staff perspective

• Important to involve staff from an early stage
• Briefing sessions
• Procedures manual
• information on collections
• documentation for referral
• monitoring evaluation forms

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LLiL Procedures manual

• Appendix One - Collection level descriptors of
  public library specialisms and special
  collections have proved most useful
• Scheme has provided CPD/current awareness service
  for librarians in London about other collections

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LLiL current membership

• 33 London Boroughs
• 35 M25 Consortium libraries
• 41 Specialist/independent libraries
• British Library

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Managed referral in action LLiL
Referral form needed
Branch Public Library
Central Reference Library
Academic Library General
Academic Library Research
British Library
Specialist Public Reference Library
Management info needed
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INSPIRE context

• Framework for the Future DCMS 2003
• Strategic vision for 2013
• Any member of a public library can also access
  materials held in HE and FE libraries
• Anyone seeking opportunities for learning and
  training can be guided to a course through a
  public library
• F4F Action Plan 6.1.2
• improve access to resources in academic public
  libraries 40k pa in 2004/5 and 2005/6 for
  Inspire x 8 regions
• MLAC in partnership with SCL CILIP implementing
  action plan now

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INSPIRE context

• Widening Participation
• White Paper The future of higher education
• We must make certain that the opportunities that
  higher education brings are available to all
  those who have the potential to benefit from
  them, regardless of their background. This is not
  just about preventing active discrimination it
  is about working actively to make sure that
  potential is recognised and fostered wherever it
  is found.
• http//www.dfes.gov.uk/hegateway/strategy/hestrate
  gy/fair.shtml

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INSPIRE context

• Aimhigher Partnerships for Progression (HEFCE)
• Direct link to 50 widening HE participation
  target by 2010
• Joint initiative of HEFCE and LSC
• Encourage more better-prepared students to stay
  in education post 16
• Raise attainment participation among young
  people under-represented in HE
• Build on and encompass regional partnerships

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INSPIRE context

• Aimhigher Partnerships for Progression (HEFCE)
• HE Associations in each English region have
  developed Aimhigher delivery plans
• Subregional plans feed into regional strategy
• Circular letter 07/2004 Aimhigher national
  activity invitation to bid
• National activity defined as activity that takes
  place at local/regional level that would benefit
  from national coordination

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Inspire England Steering Group

• British Library
• Home Nations
• Inspire NW
• Inspire WM
• LLiL
• LSC
• SCL
• SCONUL
• SCONUL/SCL/BL Access Referral Taskforce
• LISU (as consultant)
• MLA WM (as p/t project officer)

• Stephanie Kenna, BL
• Stuart James, SCURL
• Sue Valentine, LNW,
• Geoff Warren, MLAWM
• Fiona OBrien, LLDA
• Sue OHara, Programme Manager Widening
  Participation, LSC
• Andrew Green, Coventry City
• Mary Heaney, University of Wolverhampton
• Elizabeth Heaps, University of York
• Yvonne Hamblin
• Lindsay Tulloch

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Inspire England deliverables

• Standard access agreement for learners between HE
  and Public Libraries in the 3 regions built on
  the LLiL experience
• Clear 2-way referral process to take learners
  between Public HE library systems without
  barriers apparent to the learner
• LIS workforce development package for front line,
  technical and senior staff to include
• staff handbooks
• resources for onward staff briefing
• programme for delivering the briefings 6-7/04 for
  9/04 launch

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Inspire England deliverables

• Training the trainers programme to empower
  effective local delivery of staff briefing and
  training materials for HEIs Public Library
  authorities in the North West and West Midlands
  regions
• Marketing strategy to reach library staff and
  partners
• Recommendations on further rollout in England

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Lessons so far

• Experience has shown
• Inspire England needs to be capable of rollout to
  other home nations
• Criticality of effective staff briefing
  workforce development
• Need for infrastructure eg website as resource
  discovery tool for access maps and entitlements
• Importance of including other sectors FE,
  Health, workplace libraries other partner
  organisations
• Pan regional coordination now emerging as
  necessity

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Known interest in Inspire

• 2004/5
• East Midlands
• East of England
• North East
• South East
• Yorkshire

• Other future interest
• An Chomhairle Leabharlanna
• (Irish Library Council)
• Wales European bid submitted

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What are we working on now?

• Confirmation received of Regional Libraries
  Advisory Group funding for national coordination
  delivery for year 1
• Aimhigher proposal for year 2
• Identify source of funding for website
• Laying foundations for rollout beyond England
• Explore integration model for access routes
  across domains through existing partnerships

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What are we working on now?

• Coherence of national offer for learners and
  libraries alike Inspire kitemark criteria
• As a minimum, library users have reference access
• Service plans reflect commitment to cooperative
  working with Inspire partners
• Inspire is publicised within the library
  information service and to the wider community
• Promotion of collection strengths via Inspire web
  site
• All staff receive information about Inspire

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What are we working on now?

• Coherence of national offer for learners and
  libraries alike Inspire kitemark criteria
• Selected staff receive in-depth Inspire training
• Trained staff ensure the Inspire list of
  collection strengths is promoted as an additional
  resource
• Inspire included in induction and update training
• Trained staff cascade training
• Monitor Inspire to demonstrate impact
• Gather statistics
• Written comment and verbal feedback

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Widening Participation
Raising learner aspirations
LIS workforce development
Inspire England
DCMS Framework for the Future
Inspiring Learning for All
Routes to Knowledge
Resource Sharing in the Knowledge Economy
Social Inclusion
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Relevant websites

• Inspire
• http//www.inspire.gov.uk/home.htm
• LLiL
• http//www.londonlibraries.org.uk/servlets/llil/ab
  outllil
• SCONUL list of access schemes
• http//www.uklibrariesplus.ac.uk/libraries/sconul.
  htm
• WM Chrysalis gateway
• http//www.chrysalisinfo.org.uk/home_page.htm
• Cornucopia
• http//www.cornucopia.org.uk/

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Inspire England contacts

• Mary Heaney
• SCONUL
• University of Wolverhampton
• 01902 322 302
• m.e.heaney_at_wlv.ac.uk

• Andrew Green
• SCL
• Coventry City Council
• 024 7683 1579
• Andrew.green_at_coventry.gov.uk