Scotland’s library heroes in line for £5k innovation award
THE best of Scotland’s library teams are being celebrated in a new award from the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) as party of its 30th anniversary. The award, with a cash prize of £5,000, is open to SLIC member organisations and will be made to the library team that has made the best efforts to improve the user experience over the last 18 months. Innovation and service design that has helped to engage communities will be considered for the award, which is open to any team in Scotland. Pamela Tulloch, Chief Executive at SLIC, says that library services have proved invaluable during the pandemic, and library teams have demonstrated how well they can adapt and innovate in a crisis. She said: “We are continually impressed by the ingenuity and creativity of our library services in enhancing and modernising their offerings. However, over the last 18 months library teams throughout Scotland have responded to the pandemic in outstanding ways and this award scheme is the perfect way to honour the extraordinary lengths they’ve gone to continue engaging with communities. “As lockdown eases and we return to some normality, the importance of our library services has never been more apparent in connecting communities and in helping to bridge educational gaps caused by school closures. Library teams have made real progress in modernising services to support a response to Covid-19 and to our transition out of lockdown.” SLIC members can make a maximum of two entries per organisation, for initiatives that were implemented between January 2020 and June 2021. The closing date for entries is noon on 6 September, with a shortlist revealed on 11 October. For more details and to enter visit
https://bit.ly/3pQrYQe.
Advocating for a role in
disaster risk reduction THE role of library and information professionals in tack- ling disasters is being highlighted by IFLA’s Evidence for Global and Disaster Health SIG (E4GDH). The group has been raising awareness of how the sector has been involved in disaster risk management. The United Nations’ Hazard definition and classification review: Technical report is part of ongoing work to mitigate risk of global disasters, and is part of the UN’s Sendai Framework. The IFLA group says: “Evidence for Global and Disaster Health [E4GDH] provides a significant opportunity for libraries, under the leadership of IFLA and its Global Vision agenda, to play a critical role in supporting global and disaster health, bringing together partners and stakehold- ers within and outside the profession.” It is now looking to get more information profession-
als involved and build an evidence base advocate for the work that is already being done. Dr Anne Brice, Convener for E4GDH SIG said: “The aim of the study is to define an describe hazards in order to facilitate more effective disaster risk management. The E4GDH SIG has been help- ing with this work, and is keen to find other ways to raise awareness of the roles that librarians and information pro- fessionals can play.” For more information visit
www.ifla.org/e4gdh.
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Library staff lead a class for foreign language students at Partick Library in Glasgow.
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