Libraries and Learning: Opportunities for Partnership

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Libraries and Learning Opportunities for
Partnership
DfES, 7 July 2004

• Margaret Haines
• CILIP President

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Libraries for Learning

• All libraries are central to learning
• Our core values support literacy and learning in
  all sectors

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Partnerships

• Education libraries and other libraries
• Libraries and the Learning Sector
• Education libraries and DfES
• DfES and other departments
• UK and other countries
• What about CILIP?

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Partnership between libraries

• Education and public libraries
• Shared space and up-skilling public for
  employment for public sector shortage areas
  (UEL/Barking FE College and Barking and Dagenham
  Adult Institute within refurbished public
  library),
• UK Online initiative provide PC and software
  for ICT skills for public (education and learning
  and skills councils via adult institutes
• Empowering the Learning Community

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Partnerships between libraries (2)

• Education and NHS libraries
• Shared user training, licences
• Education and education libraries
• information literacy approaches, access
• DfES and other government libraries
• Shared expertise in adult pedagogy
• CofHE/UCR collaboration within CILIP
• SCONUL/CILIP partnership
• M25 Libraries Group
• New senior HE post in British Library

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Partnership between learning organisations/sectors

• Lifelong Learning UK (sector skills council)
• FE, HE, Under 16, Community Learning, Libraries
• Guild of Educators
• CILIP/Learn Direct Achieve Awards
• Gifted Children (promising achievers go for short
  courses at local university)

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Partnership between DfES and library sector

• Named champion for library policy and use of DFES
  internal library experts to advise on education
  library policy issues
• A framework strategy for education libraries as a
  companion to other library strategies?
• Recognition of the wider relevance of libraries
  to information literacy and learning not just
  e-learning and ICT skills and that all libraries
  support learning e.g. corporate sector
• More dialogue with CILIP and education library
  groups

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Partnership between DfES and other government
departments

• Joined up government
• overarching UK Library Learning Strategy?
• Support for cross-sectoral initiatives like with
  archives, museums, records management
• Promoting education libraries to RDAs and other
  regional agencies e.g. ALM London
• Support for Government libraries like DfES
  involvement in wider LIS issues like
  evidence-based practice, FOI, KM

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Global Partnerships

• World Summit on the Information Society
• Education libraries are key to this plan
• Support for widening access to HE libraries
• Reviewing national library strategies
• Fostering world-wide library co-operation
• Promoting digital libraries, e-publishing, peer
  to peer technology, digital preservation of
  scientific data, open archives initiatives
• Training of information specialists

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CILIPs role

• Increased dialogue with DfES important
• E.g. e-learning, teaching qualifications
  requirements for librarians, content licensing
• Supporting teaching role of CILIP members and
  supporting CPD in this area
• Leadership in promoting information literacy and
  the role of libraries
• Facilitating partnership between sectors

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Libraries are for learning

• Even the most misfitting child
• Who's chanced upon the library's worth
• Sits with the genius of the Earth
• And turns the key to the whole worldTed
  Hughes, July 1997

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Margaret Haines, CILIP PresidentEmail
Margaret.Haines_at_kcl.ac.uk
Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E
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0501 Textphone 020 7255 0505 Email info_at_cilip
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