A 'picture report' on the ‘Feel Good-Look Good’ Family Health Day, held in Highfields Library Leicester on 17th April, 2010, can be found here.

The event was arranged in partnership with Leicester Libraries, NHS Leicester City, Area Youth Outreach Workers and Central Extended Services, admission was free.

The Libraries and Information East Midlands Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 13th October 2010 at the Derby Quad - further details will be available soon. At the AGM a Regional Council will be elected to serve for one year from the date of the meeting.

Each of the nine public library authorities in the East Midlands are represented on Regional Council by their Chief Librarian or nominated deputy. The Higher Education, Further Education and other non-public library sectors have six places on Council between them and nominations are now invited for these six places.

Nominations, endorsed by a declaration from the nominee that he/she is willing to serve as a Higher Education, Further Education or other non-public library representative, should reach Lynn Hodgkins by Friday 10th September 2010.

Nominations for Regional Council representatives   

 

Nominations are also invited for Honorary Officers for 2010/11, the Honorary Officer positions are: Chair, Vice-chair, Secretary and Treasurer. 

Nominations, endorsed by a declaration that he/she is willing to serve as an Honorary Officer, should reach Lynn Hodgkins by Friday 10th September 2010.

Nominations form for Honorary Officers 2010   

The latest Inspire e-newsletter which highlights the Conarls non-English language fiction collections database.

 

Conarls is a working group of The Combined Regions which supports the national Inspire initiative.

 

If you would like to be added to the mailing list for future editions of the Inspire newsletter or if you have any short articles you would like to contribute please contact Sally Curry sally.curry@newcastle.ac.uk

 

To read the newsletter and for further information about Inspire see:

Projects: Inspire 

UnityUK and LIEM hosted an East Midlands Region UnityUK User group meeting at the Nottinghamshire Archives on 26th April 2010.
Ann Charlton, Application services consultant for OCLC gave a presentation including details of the forthcoming 2010 upgrading.
It was a useful networking opportunity for  interlending colleagues from across the region to be informed about the latest planned updates and improvements to  UnityUK, share experiences and ideas and discuss a variety of interlending issues.