NEWS
Online tools for better engagement
CILIP’s UKeiG is holding a half-day training course looking at Interactive Tools for Online Presentation and Teaching. Taking place online on 19 November, the focus is on how to improve engagement with audiecnes on digital platforms. It will cover a number of free products and tools, such as Kahoot!, Menti and Google Slides giving hints and tips on how to get the best out of them. The course is led by Ned Potter and places can be booked at
https://bit.ly/3lHABwk.
APPG relaunches
with wider role CILIP has launched a new All Party Par- liamentary Group for Libraries, Informa- tion and Knowledge (LInK), highlighting the value and impact of knowledge, infor- mation and libraries in the UK. The group first met on 20 October and over the coming months it will look at a range of topics, including the impact of knowledge and information on social, economic, and industrial development; the role of information professionals on informing, educating and inspiring current and future generations through literacy, learning and reading; and pro- moting equality, equity and representa- tion through LIK services. l
www.cilip.org.uk/APPGLInK
Lord Parkinson for libraries portfolio
Lord Pakinson of Whitley Bay has been named Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Arts), with the role cover- ing arts, museums and libraries. The appointment is part of a wider govern- ment reshuffle that took place last month. Having spent much of his career as a special adviser within the Conservative Party, most notably for Theresa May as Prime Minister he was nominated for a Life Peerage in her resignation honours in 2019. He sits within the DCMS and is part of Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Nadine Dorries’ ministerial team and will be responsibile for overseeing pub- lic library provision.
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Playlist for Life dementia charity marks milestone
A SCOTTISH Library service has become the latest to sign up to offer support for people with demen- tia by becoming the 1,000th Help Point for Playlist for Life. The Dementia charity works with community groups and public sector organisations, including the Scottish Library and Information Council, to deliver music-based services through its Help Points – a third of all Scottish pub- lic libraries are now part of the scheme. The latest service to sign up is Orkney Library and Archive, and it will work with Age Scotland Orkney to distribute Playlist for Life’s materials to people liv- ing with dementia in the community. Orkney Library and Archive Team leader Karen Walker said: “It’s an hon- our to be the 1,000th Playlist for Life Help Point. We are ideally placed to distribute the helpful information and support provided by the charity for those suffering from dementia along with their families and carers. We look forward to working with the team from Age Scotland.”
Playlist for Life was founded in 2013 by writer and broadcaster Sally Magnusson after the death of her mother, who lived with dementia. Playlist For Life Executive Director Michelle Armstrong-Surgenor welcomed the latest partnership, saying: “This is a hugely exciting milestone for the charity and all our wonderful com- munity partners, who play a pivotal role in helping us to reach every person living with dementia, their families and carers. We now have Help Points in every corner of the country from Orkney to Penzance.” “Partnerships are key to our work and helping us to reach anyone who could benefit from the power of personally meaningful music. Our partnership with SLIC [The Scottish Library and Infor- mation Council] has resulted in over a third of libraries in Scotland signing up as Playlist for Life help points. These are key community hubs where anyone affected by dementia can access free advice and resources to improve their wellbeing and bring joy through music.” To find out more visit
www.playlistforlife.
org.uk/become-a-help-point.
RLUK backs Controlled Digital Lending (CDL)
CONTROLLED Digital Lending (CDL) – when libraries digitise material and lend it on a one-to-one ratio of owned copies to borrowers – is an opportunity that needs to be seized by research libraries, according to according to David Prosser, the Execu- tive Director of Research Libraries UK (RLUK).
In a blog post (
https://bit.ly/3FILQfX) he
said: “The pandemic engendered a shift in the way in which we think about CDL” as a theory “to increasingly being viewed as a potentially key tool that allows librar- ians to connect information with read- ers”.
He said: “We need to ensure we take the opportunity of CDL and realise those ben- efits – not allow our activities to become
narrowed as a result of a format shift and out-of-date copyright frameworks.” He sees de-risking CDL as the next big step: that while there are legal risks there is a tendency among publishers “to rhetorically describe it as a highly risky activity, only one-step removed (if at all) from piracy. We need to challenge that narrative. Controlled Digital Lend- ing needs to become Lending – a rea- sonable and acceptable activity for any library – HE or public – to undertake.” He said that legal expert Dr Emily Hudson and co-author Paul Wragg believe that “there is sufficient leeway in current exceptions in UK copyright law to allow CDL for education purposes and, with some rights stacking, for research”.
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