Opportunity to survive and thrive

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Opportunity to survive and thrive

• Scottish Library Information Council

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Themes

• The right to read
• Information through technology
• Empowerment through access
• Learning through opportunity
• National initiatives to support and improve local
  delivery

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Big ideas

• Libraries are More than books, google..
  culture
• National centres of excellence delivering quality
  services and providing leadership and linked to
  inspection
• Rationalising the services identify the
  efficiency savings which can be reinvested in the
  communities
• Free up staff to engage in communities and not in
  process
• Linking different libraries and outside partners

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The right to read

• national readership development projects
• sustained funding straight from top-sliced
  budgets/SAC/SE
• provision of Scottish materials
• a national reading strategy
• creation of an information literate society

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Information through technology

• user entitlements to broad categories of
  nationally-procured content
• smartcard access to users information
  entitlement, regardless of venue
• co-ordinated development of content and
  collections
• 24/7 (remote) access

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Empowerment through access

• Libraries at the heart of communities
• Community planning
• structures which enable libraries to thrive
• contribution to skills development
• access to wider government services
  registration/housing/
• health, employment etc
• Making a difference Libraries and social
  inclusion

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Learning through opportunity

• easy steps back to learning
• 24/7 support
• co-ordinated development of learning content and
  collections
• national and local networks of partnerships (HE,
  FE, schools..)
• quality
• user focused

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National initiatives to support and improve local
delivery

• leadership
• national procurement of library and content
  management systems
• national collections strategy and centralised
  acquisition
• buildings audit
• sharing best practice

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Potential models

• Electronic Libraries For Northern Ireland
  single PPP library system
• Stock selection business model from West Lothian
• Irish Buildings Programme
• Nimble North sustainable electronic content
  models
• Peoples Network vision and change-delivery
  mechanism
• Norwegian and Irish support for indigenous
  publishing and literature
• Scottish Reader Development Network model
• Scottish Cultural Portal