Previous training and development

All Change Please – Contemporary Issues in Document Supply

LIEM was delighted to work with the Forum for Interlending to deliver a joint workshop at the University of Leicester in January 2009. Over 40 participants from a variety of libraries across the region and beyond took part and the event was very well received. Speakers included Peter Robinson of the British Library, Tim Peacock of Derby University and Joan Bird of the British Geological Survey and there were workshops on Secure Electronic Delivery, International Document Supply and Music Performance Sets. It was an excellent example of partnership and collaboration between the two organisations and grateful thanks are extended to Linda Clark, Document Supply Manager at the University of Leicester, and her colleagues and to Rose Goodier, Chair of FIL, and members of the committee.

LIEM visit to RNIB in Peterborough

This visit on Thursday 22nd January 2009 aimed to provide a chance to explore behind the scenes and discover how the Royal National Institute of Blind People supports people living with sight loss. It included insight into:

Transcription of braille into foreign languages, mathematics and music, as well as the production of tactile images, maps and diagrams. (The largest braille production facility in Europe)
The RNIB’s famous Talking Book Service. Around 8,000 books a day are distributed, using the latest digital technology, to over 40,000 customers.
The warehouse, where products and information are dispatched around the world. Hundreds of everyday living products - from large button phones to liquid level indicators, braille publications to speaking clocks and watches are sold through Customer Services, or the online shop, as well as through local blind societies.
Volunteering teams: meeting some of the many volunteers who work in a wide range of roles.
An account of the visit written by participants Christina Raven-Conn and Val Sellars can be accessed here: Three cheers for J.K.Rowling

The British Library Bursary scheme

The British Library Travel and Research bursary awards were established in 2005, funded by the British Library, Libraries and Information East Midlands and the East Midlands Branch of CILIP. The funds have been used to support two awards to date. These were made to Lesley Phillips for her work on the history of the Old Theatre Royal in Chesterfield, and to Madeline Cox for her study of Nottinghamshire’s Astronomical Past. You can read more about their experiences in the article published in Impact in Spring 2008, Vol 11, No 1 pp 16 – 20 “Calling all studious and curious persons” The British Library Bursary Scheme.

In August 2007 the bursary fund was also used to cover the travel costs of fifteen members of staff from a wide range of libraries across the region for a one-day visit to the British Library in London.

The final two British Library Travel and Research bursary awards for East Midlands’ library staff have now been made. The awards, which were widely advertised across the region, attracted a strong field of applications and the winning two were selected by the British Library to go forward.

The bursaries have been awarded to Carol Barstow, Librarian of Bromley House Library in Nottingham and to Jon-Paul Carr, Northamptonshire Studies Manager for Northamptonshire Libraries. The awards will enable Carol and Jon-Paul to undertake a period of research at the London site of the British Library with the support and guidance of Dr Michelle Brown, former keeper of manuscripts at the BL.

Please note the scheme is now closed.

Further information can be read here:BL Bursary scheme

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