The day will provide an opportunity to listen to a range of speakers present on issues relating to the event theme of demonstrating impact. Attendees will also have the opportunity to contribute to discussions, network, and attend the CILIP Ireland AGM. The event will include lunch and be followed by an optional tour of the Linen Hall Library.

A full programme and details on how to register will follow shortly. This event will be free for CILIP Ireland members.

The British Film Insitute Reuben Library, on the Southbank, houses a huge collection of books, journals and digitised material about the world of film, television and the moving image. This tour will equip you with a greater understanding of the resources available through BFI and enable appropriate referral.

The tour is free for CILIP members, but places are limited so booking is essential. Please book your place by emailing your, name and CILIP number to Stella Chevalier (librarylorax@gmail.com)

Discover something new at your library, 9 – 14 October 2017

CILIP has today announced plans for the first Libraries Week, a week-long celebration of Britain’s much-loved libraries. Libraries will showcase the best they have to offer, encouraging people to discover what libraries can do for them on the week of October 9 to 14 2017.

Libraries Week, 9 – 14 October 2017, will replace National Libraries Day, previously held in February. The countdown to the inaugural Libraries Week will launch on Saturday 4 February 2017 and libraries with activity already planned for February are encouraged to continue with their plans as the transition to a new date gets underway.

Nick Poole, CILIP CEO said: “Libraries Week is an opportunity to celebrate the very best that libraries have to offer across the UK. During the second week in October, we want to ensure that as many people as possible are inspired to visit a library, discover what's on offer & encourage their friends & family to get involved.

I am delighted that we have been able to respond to feedback from the library community by expanding from a single day to a week-long celebration of libraries, enabling us to include more partners and develop a really exciting programme for the public.

CILIP and our national partners are committed to ensuring that Libraries Week receives widespread visibility and support. Whatever type of library you work in, we need you to join us and help ensure the success of Libraries Week."

More details about Libraries Week will be announced in February along with a call for UK libraries to sign up and commit to planning, delivering and locally promoting high quality co-ordinated experiences during Libraries Week.

The event is open to all types of library, with public libraries encouraged to showcase their strongest services and activities across themes such as digital, creative, family, inspirational, health, employment collection-based or education. Libraries can also become supporters, helping to promote Libraries Week in their region or service. There will be support for libraries to get the most from Libraries Week.

CILIP is encouraging library providers and heads of service to begin planning for Libraries Week as a key marketing activity and to consider applying for funding or working with local schools, companies and community groups to promote their activities, bring in new audiences and run an exciting programme during the second week of October.

If you work in a library, click here for further information and FAQs

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www.librariesweek.org.uk 
#librariesweek

Notes to editors

Press contact

Cat Cooper
Communications and Campaigns Manager, CILIP
Email: cat.cooper@cilip.org.uk

Tel: 020 7255 0653
Mobile: 07867 455070

About Libraries Week

The 2nd week of October annually, Libraries Week is a week-long cross-platform celebration of the best that Britain’s libraries have to offer, encouraging people to discover excellence and innovation in Britain’s libraries. Formerly National Libraries Day, the campaign is led by the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP) and supported by libraries, national partners and supporters.

This event will offer an opportunity to share experience and innovative practice in the use of social media in FE and HE libraries, and beyond.

Speakers include Alice Bouquet (UWE Bristol), Chris Gower (Exeter College), Alan Turner (Arts University Bournemouth) and Mike Jones (Barton Peveril Sixth Form College).

There will also be a 'social media' cafe offering the opportunity to network and learn from colleagues across the region.

Lunch, teas and coffees will be provided.

Bookings via Eventbrite ; any queries please contact arlgsw@gmail.com.

Since 2011 the National Library of Wales (NLW) has been pursuing a digital strategy aimed at digitising “as much as possible of the printed material published in Wales and about Wales and the Welsh people.” [1]  The ultimate goal of the Theatre of Memory (in Welsh, Theatr y Cof) was to make this material, essentially the printed record of Wales and the Welsh, “freely available to be searched and read by anyone on the internet.” [2]  Amongst the material identified for digitisation were books and pamphlets, official publications, music, periodicals and newspapers; resources in both Welsh and English and both in and out of copyright [3].  It is, by any measure, an ambitious vision.

First newspapers, then books and periodicals

The first major step towards the realisation of this vision was taken with the digitisation of part of our newspaper collection and the creation of the Welsh Newspapers Online website, which by now offers users searchable access to 15 million articles and 1.1 million pages from almost 120 newspapers published in Wales between 1804 and 1919. The website has helped make historical research into this period easier and more accessible for the general user and the academic researcher.

We’re now beginning a new stage in this journey, the digitisation of the Welsh Print Collection of books and periodicals published in Wales, by Welsh authors, or about Wales. This collection is one of the most important in the NLW and probably one of the most complete collections of books and periodicals published in Wales, on Wales or by Welsh authors anywhere in the world, running to an estimated 300,000 titles. The collection encompasses Welsh writing, in both English and Welsh, on a huge number of subjects and genres, from history to medicine, from religion to travel, to children’s literature, thrillers, bourgeois Victorian novels and grand poetical works. In essence a record of the development of the intellectual and cultural life of the Welsh nation.

Why digitise?

So why digitise? As will already be clear the key driver for this project is to make this collection easily accessible to readers the world over, to give users access to material which may have been long out of print or which may have been long forgotten. Digitisation of this material will also benefit and enrich traditional academic research by giving researchers access to a more complete range of titles, of especial interest in disciplines such as literary research. By any standards we’ll be creating a valuable and easily accessible resource for both general readers and academic researchers.

Significantly, digitisation and the creation of a searchable digital archive through OCR will also provide the raw materials for the type of research connected to the Digital Humanities, including the use of techniques such as data mining. In the field of literary history for instance we hope that the raw materials we provide through the proposed digital archive of Welsh literary works will facilitate the type of innovative research undertaken by the Stanford Literary Lab  and researchers such as Franco Moretti, the theorist of distant reading.

Mass digitisation presents significant challenges

However, as many CILIP members will be aware, mass digitisation projects of this type also present significant challenges. One major challenge we face is establishing what exactly we hold in our collection. While the vast majority of works in the Welsh Print Collection have a current catalogue record and holding, inevitably as the Library catalogue moved from cards to various electronic library management systems a significant number of items have for one reason or another fallen through the cracks and do not have a current bibliographic record and/or holding. 

As we prepare a particular subject areas within the collection for digitisation, our first task will be to scope these sub-collections, not only to gather data necessary for digitisation (date of publication, number of pages, condition of the material etc.) but also to ascertain which items do not have a current bibliographic record. This will allow us to establish once and for all exactly what we hold in the Welsh Print Collection, and may reveal some hidden gems that have been overlooked. Once the scoping stage is completed we anticipate a significant amount of cataloguing work to follow, for which funding will no doubt need to be found. This work will, however, provide us with an early ‘quick win’ not only completing a vital stage in preparing works for digitisation and ingest, but also making these works available to users on our current catalogue for the first time, thus opening up access to this important collection in a more traditional sense.

Funding and copyright

The key challenge facing us is finding funding for cataloguing and digitisation. This is a highly competitive area with a large number of organisations bidding for a limited number of funding opportunities. In terms of our approach to applying for bids to digitise the Welsh Print Collection, we’ll be pursuing a strategy of identifying funding streams for specific subject areas within the collection. We will also be seeking to build partnerships with higher education organisations, academic bodies and societies and other cultural and heritage organisations as we work to build support for the aims of this digitisation project.

Copyright is another major challenge for any organisation undertaking a mass digitisation project. At present we’ll be focusing on digitising the out of copyright material in the Welsh Print Collection although we hope at some stage to move on to digitising in-copyright material, with the permission and cooperation of the authors or their estates. However, this is an area fraught with difficulties that’s time consuming, costly and problematic. 

We’re at the beginning of this process

As I mentioned at the start of this blog we’re currently at the beginning of this process, establishing which subject areas we’re going to begin with. The subject areas we’ve identified as ones to move forward with initially are medicine/health, literature and language, music and biographies. Some preparatory work has begun on these subject areas, but its early days yet. Creating a digital archive of the Welsh Print Collection is however an incredibly exciting prospect for us as a national organisation, one that is rife with possibilities and potentialities and which will open up  Wales’ cultural and intellectual memory for pleasure and study as never before.

Join the CILIP Yorkshire & Humberside Member Network for a tour of Search Engine at the National Railway Museum in York.

The visit will include a talk about the work of the library and archives: how they support researchers, museum visitors, the museum itself and other railway organisations. After that there will be a tour of the stores and an opportunity to oggle some of the cool stuff from the collections.

If you have time before or after the visit, you may like to have a look round the engine halls, or pop in to one of the on-site cafés.

Cost
Free to all.

Booking
Please book tickets via Eventbrite. The visit is free to all, but places are limited. If the visit sells out, you will be able to add yourself to the waiting list, and will be emailed if a space becomes available.

How to get there
Search Engine is in the main building of the National Railway Museum, which is a two-minute, well-signposted walk from York train station. 

Accessibility
If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact cilipyh@gmail.com before the visit and we will do our best to help.

DatNav, a new guide, helps human rights defenders integrate digital data into their work

Human rights defenders face risks of physical violence, intimidation, and abuse as they interview victims, collect stories, and report their findings. Yet they continue with this very important work because they understand the importance of grounding advocacy campaigns and policy in solid, verified evidence.

At Benetech, we have been supporting human rights reporting and documentation for nearly fifteen years by providing data collection tools and training. Without the ability to document atrocities and human rights abuses, vulnerable populations lack the data necessary to defend themselves and bring perpetrators to justice. As one of our partners, Rainbow Health Foundation Mbarara in rural Uganda, put it: “Struggle without documentation is no struggle at all.”

Secure, systematic data collection

Anchoring Benetech’s Human Rights Program is the concept of secure, systematic data collection to document human rights abuses. We developed Martus in 2003 with and for human rights defenders who needed more secure tools to collect and store sensitive information about human rights abuses, victims, and survivors. Martus is an open source data collection and storage platform that allows users to encrypt records both at the point of entry (on their laptop, desktop, or mobile device) and at rest (stored locally or on a server). This end-to-end encryption model ensures that only authorized users have access to sensitive data. Even if subpoenaed by law enforcement, Benetech is unable to decrypt our users’ data. We’re proud of this, and we stand by this model for human rights data. 

While many of our users store data locally, others choose to store data on Martus servers, which allows them to restore their data even in the event of computer failure, seizure, or loss. Working with very small budgets, in challenging environments, and under hostile governments, our users absolutely need open source tools that safeguard their data – which is their most valuable asset. 

One of our partners, an LGBTI rights group in Uganda, noted with regret that even after having received Martus training, they maintained paper-based member lists. These records were confiscated by police during raids in support of the government’s anti-homosexuality agenda. Although no members were arrested for their activities, our partner became more diligent about encrypting its data. Since then, that organization contributed its collected stories of violations, abuses, and thefts to the Uganda Report of Violations Based on Sex Determination, Gender Identify, and Sexual Orientation. Their collective documentation efforts helped achieve the decriminalization of homosexuality in Uganda, when the Anti-Homosexuality Act was struck down on August 1, 2014 by the Ugandan High Court.

But our partners and colleagues increasingly speak of feeling isolated and overwhelmed, daunted by the ever-growing amount of human rights data and continually evolving tech tools and systems. Benetech helps human rights defenders navigate this changing landscape and trains them to protect themselves and the digital information that they collect.

Collaboration with Amnesty International and The Engine Room

We began a collaboration with human rights pioneer Amnesty International in early 2015 to explore opportunities both to investigate, and then to create, technology tools to support human rights defenders. Joining our partnership a few months later was The Engine Room, an innovative organization best known for their Responsible Data Program that explores safe and ethical uses of data for social change. Together the three organizations convened – both virtually and in person – communities of activists, researchers, program managers, and others to discuss how human rights experts are using digital data in their work. With all of the new data streams available – satellite imagery, cellphone video, metadata, social media, to name a few – human rights defenders need standards for data collection and use, clear protocols for verification or determination of reliability, guides for building threat models, and best practices to support the psychosocial well-being of researchers, documenters, and data collectors. 

In addition to the collective knowledge of the three primary organizations, we knew our peers had much to offer, and so we held a series of community calls, interviews, and surveys to solicit input, suggestions, and case studies. 

DatNav

Click to download guide (8.6 MB PDF)

These conversations culminated in DatNav, a comprehensive guide authored in May 2016 by over a dozen experts and reviewed by a dozen more. DatNav, as a community-generated resource, is intended to help human rights professionals understand the many different media sources available to them today. DatNav was designed to help human rights defenders navigate and integrate digital data into their human rights work. In particular, it aims to:

• Boost traditional human rights documentation by explaining how to incorporate digital data.
• Build knowledge and expertise in advance of emergencies.
• Explain the opportunities, limits, and risks of digital data.
• Empower individuals and organizations to use digital data and technology responsibly.

DatNav includes case studies and scenarios and also addresses verification, privacy, ethics, reliability, fraud, and other responsible data considerations. As data collection costs continue to decrease and new platforms emerge, we will see even more opportunities to harness these data sources for human rights work. When used responsibly, this data can help human rights professionals whether litigating in court, working with governments and journalists, or documenting historical records.

Keith Hiatt, Benetech’s recently appointed Vice President of Human Rights, understands the value of data. A former database developer and human rights researcher, Keith has repeatedly emphasized the potential of digital data collection in human rights work. “DatNav is a major step forward for the human rights community,” he wrote. “We can’t ignore the opportunities that come with large-scale data analysis---but we can’t ignore the risks, either. This guide is an essential resource for every human rights organization that collects data; and these days, that is likely to be all of them.”

About Benetech’s Human Rights Program

Benetech’s Human Rights Program empowers human rights defenders around the world to pursue truth and justice by providing technology solutions and capacity building. The Martus platform is a free and open source toolset allowing practitioners to securely capture, encrypt, and analyze sensitive information. We train human rights practitioners on secure data collection to protect at-risk communities, including women, ethnic minorities, and LGBTI individuals.

About Benetech

Benetech is a different kind of tech company. We’re a nonprofit whose mission is to empower communities in need by creating scalable technology solutions. Our work has transformed how over 425,000 people with disabilities read; made it safer for human rights defenders in over fifty countries to document human rights violations; and equipped environmental conservationists to protect ecosystems and species all over the world. Our Benetech Labs is working on the next big impact. Visit www.benetech.org.
 

This Youth Libraries Group London one day course is aimed at frontline library staff working with the public as well as librarians with an interest in provision for children under 5 and SEN children.

The course which will be held at CILIP will provide practical advice for engaging with a young audience

• Ideas for inclusive storytelling
• Raised stock awareness with a focus on diversity
• Raised awareness of the wider literary network

Do you hold CILIP Professional Registration (ACLIP, MCLIP or FCLIP)?
Do you need to revalidate but don't know where to start?
Then come along to this session and complete your revalidation in an evening alongside other CILIP members in the Sussex area.
Thursday 3rd November, 5.30-7.30pm at the Library, University of Sussex.
This session will be facilitated by Steve Bowman, an experienced revalidator and Deputy Librarian at the University of Chichester.
The session is free - and there is also no charge to submit your revalidation - you just have to be a CILIP member and up to date with your membership fees.
Refreshments will be provided.
Please book via Eventbrite here:  http://bit.ly/2d71wkD

CILIP’s Library & Information History Group is seeking a new newsletter editor. This is a volunteer role. The role entails compiling the LIHG Newsletter 3 times a year (January, May, September); commissioning feature articles and event reports in conjunction with committee members; recording and relaying relevant upcoming events, exhibitions, calls for papers, new resources in print and online; arranging publication and delivery of newsletter online (working with web editor) and in print. The role would suit someone with an interest in library and information history who has some experience of writing for publication in print or online and who has access to desktop publishing/word processing software. As a member of the committee, the editor is expected to participate in committee meetings (two online and two in person per year). Reasonable travel expenses are reimbursed by the group for committee meeting attendance.

If you are interested in the role, please get in touch with Renae Satterley, Chair of the LIHG at: r.satterley@middletemple.org.uk by Monday 31 October.

The Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) and CILIP, the UK’s library and information association have announced a new initiative to make sure the public library workforce continues to meet the changing needs of today’s audiences.

The initiative will see the creation of a ‘UK Public Library Skills Strategy’, helping public libraries to attract, retain and develop talent, develop digital skills and deliver value for their funders and service users.

Nick Poole, CILIP CEO said, “Public libraries have never played such a central, multi-faceted role in their communities as they do today. From reading programmes to Code Clubs, helping people get online or apply for jobs, supporting health and wellbeing and building partnerships with local organisations – public librarians are committed to helping people help themselves and get on in life. Through the UK Public Library Skills Strategy we want to equip the public library workforce with the skills to make the most of the digital revolution, drive change and deliver outstanding customer service for their users.”

Alison Wheeler Chair of the Skills Strategy steering group said, “We have an impressive team of people representing the breadth of the public library sector already at work on a future vision which will help us to retain and attract talent, to forecast the skills we need for the future and help us to understand what training and development staff need. We’ve set an invigorating and ambitious pace for this work, together, as a recognition there has never been a more timely moment for this initiative.”

The Public Library Skills Strategy will support Local Authorities and organisations that provide library services with their staff development, training and recruitment. As the public’s needs and expectations of library services change, so the library’s core offer and services must anticipate and meet demand. The skills of staff are essential to provide quality services that are well-promoted and delivered in person and digitally with outstanding customer service.

The Strategy will be developed through a series of workshops and opportunities for the library workforce to provide their ideas and feedback. Launch is planned for Spring 2017, as part of a co-ordinated series of developments to improve and modernise library services through the Leadership for Libraries Taskforce.

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Press contact

Mark Taylor
Director of External Relations, CILIP
Email: mark.taylor@cilip.org.uk
Tel: 020 7255 0654
Mobile: 07792 635 305
 

The draft Annual Report 2015-16 was tabled at the GIG AGM held on Tuesday 27 September at CILIP, Ridgmount Street. London. It was agreed at the AGM to circulate the Annual Report more widely for consultation amongst our members. Comments should be sent to the Honorary Secretary, Stephen Gregory by email (stephen.gregory2@wales.gsi.gov.uk) to be received no later than 5pm on 18 November.

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The Research Data Alliance (RDA) vision is researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. Through focused Working Groups and more exploratory Interest Groups, the RDA develops and implements concrete recommendations and supporting outputs that provide the social and technical connections necessary for a functional data infrastructure that bridges across countries, disciplines, scales, and technologies. 

Their current press release announces a 2nd November 2016, JISC and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) hosted joint workshop in Birmingham, UK. At the event topics include how to engage with the RDA, practical uses of RDA outputs, and discussions with groups working on Trust and Certification, Metadata Standards, Data Citation and Publishing Data.

This one day workshop will provide attendees with information about how the RDA, as a community-driven organisation, is working to achieve its vision. It will include representatives from specific working and interest groups highlighting their work and discussing how this work can be used practically in universities and data centres in the UK. The event will be of particular interest to decision makers, managers and enablers, users and consumers, researchers and research managers.

Speakers at the workshop include Rachel Bruce (Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, JISC), Mark Parsons (Secretary General, RDA) and Juan Bicarregui (RDA Europe). Chairs from a selection of groups and implementers of the groups’ outputs will run parallel and interactive discussions with the purpose of communicating their work and discovering how these can be used practically in the UK.

Further details are available on the following blog post - https://researchdata.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2016/09/16/research-data-alliance-workshop/.

This event is free, but you must register to attend at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/rda-workshop-02-nov-2016.

I had just finished university and was looking forward to my graduation and what felt like a promising future. Suddenly, following what I can only describe as a moment of madness, I found myself in prison, I was devastated.  On remand and locked up for 23 hours a day, not knowing what was going to happen, at my lowest point I didn’t see much of a future after prison.  

I had a choice, sink or swim

But I had a choice, sink or swim. I chose to swim. I threw myself into exercise – press ups, sit ups, as much as possible, to use up my energy, to try not to think, it was my way of coping.

As time passed I settled into my ‘new life’ and wanted to make the best of things. The turning point was when I signed up for a course and qualified as a gym instructor and personal trainer. This led to a job in the prison gym, things were looking up. 

I was soon being asked by inmates and friends outside to write them an ‘in-cell workout’ so they could exercise without the use of weights.

I needed information and started visiting the prison library

I needed information and with no Internet to call on I started visiting the prison library to research.  I soon began enjoying my time in the library, it felt like an oasis away from prison life, where I felt like a person not a prisoner.

Using information and my own knowledge I began writing and drawing exercises and workouts.  Being in the gym and exercising became massively important to me as it is for many inmates, it kept me going.  From here I realised there was a need for an in-cell workout manual and to write Cell Workout, designed specifically for use in a prison cell, or confined space, became my mission.

I self-published Cell Workout

Upon release in 2012 I continued working on my project, taking things one step at a time. It’s fair to say that I had underestimated the amount of work involved but from the beginning I had a very clear vision of what I wanted my book to be and was prepared to take as long as it needed to make it right. After 3 very challenging years I finished and self-published Cell Workout. It was a very proud moment when my first delivery of books arrived.  

So now what? I didn’t really know how to best get the book into prisons and available to inmates.

Once again my thoughts turned to the prison libraries. I decided that as a starting point it would be a good idea to get the book on the library shelves so at least inmates would become aware of it and I was keen to know what they thought.

I began ringing around all the prison libraries to explain about my book

I began ringing around all the prison libraries to explain about my book and try to drum up some interest. I was pleased to find that the response from the librarians was positive and helpful, with many doing as they promised and put Cell Workout in their library.

Things took an unexpected turn when I was invited to visit the library at HMP Thameside to meet the inmates and talk about my book. I had never done anything like this before and to get things going and break the ice, I started with a group workout.  The welcome and interest from the inmates and staff was more than I could have hoped for. This was the first of many such prison visits and the response has led me to develop the Cell Workout Workshop.  
 
Last year I was invited to the CILIP conference for prison librarians, to speak alongside the Prisoners' Education Trust and it was good to put faces to many of the librarians I had spoken to earlier that year. As ever they were very generous about my achievements. 

Most recently I was contacted by the Reading Agency and invited to visit HMP Edinburgh, voted by the inmates as the author they would most like to meet. I felt honoured to be asked.  Whilst in Scotland I also visited YOI Polmont. On both occasions the warm reception and enthusiasm continues to reinforce my belief in the benefit of exercise and the positive results for inmates.

People go to the library for different reasons

People go to the library for different reasons, to research, to learn, or through the power of reading, be transported to another world. Prison libraries are like a hub, where inmates can be amongst others, attend book clubs, author visits and even do the occasional cell workout!  

I received a letter from one inmate, who in prison decided it was time to change. Having had no interest in education before, he explained how he attended the library to pick up ‘more books than he could carry’ and from then on ‘couldn’t take his head out of a book’. He has recently enrolled with the Open University and beginning his degree in business management.     

It shows the importance of librarians

This just shows the importance of the encouragement, enthusiasm and commitment of the librarians and the difference it makes. I remain grateful for the help and support that I continue to receive and am determined to it put to good use and make something positive come from the mistake I made. I hope I can inspire others to achieve and not give up hope.

The positive response to Cell Workout and the Workshop leads me to continue to strive to improve the physical and mental health and wellbeing of inmates. To encourage them to improve their education and gain qualifications for better job opportunities, thus aiding rehabilitation and reduce re-offending. Ultimately this will result in a better outcome not only for the inmate, but also their families, the prison community and the wider community outside. 

What once felt like the end was maybe just the beginning

My most recent achievements is securing a publishing contract with Hodder & Stoughton who want to take my book to another level in marketing and promoting it outside of prison.  The launch is planned for end of December this year.

Also, as a result of developing my Cell Workout Workshop I will soon be starting work in HMP Wandsworth. What a turnaround, I never thought that I would be working in a prison! I see this as an incredible opportunity to be able to encourage more inmates to work towards a brighter future and a huge commitment from the prison who see the value in employing people who were once in prison themselves to help make a difference.

Over the past 4 years what started out as an idea for a book continues to develop and progress, with so much more that I have want to do and achieve.

My life may not have gone in the direction that I once thought it would, but what once felt like the end was maybe just the beginning. Exciting times.

CILIP submissions to prison reform consultations

In 2015 CILIP responded to the “Coates Review”: MoJ Review of education in prisons (published May 2016). Following on from our Coates Review submission, in September 2016 CILIP’s Policy team submitted evidence to the Justice Committee Inquiry - Government Programme of Reforms to Prisons making 6 recommendations. The evidence has not yet been published by the Committee.

Facet Publishing have announced the release of Linked Data for Cultural Heritage

In this new book Ed Jones and Michele Seikel along with a stellar list of contributors help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and projects based in libraries, archives, and museums.

Linked open data remains very much a work in progress, and much of the progress has taken place within the domain of the cultural heritage institutions. There is no question that the structure of linked data, and the machine inferencing it supports, shows great promise for discoverability. What will be the ‘killer app’ that breaks linked open data out to the wider world and accelerates its uptake? Perhaps it will be a project described in this volume.

The editors of the book said, “while we are still some distance from the world of linked data that Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila envisaged fifteen years ago when they first proposed a Semantic Web, this book provides a snapshot in time of the current linked data landscape among libraries and other cultural institutions – many very large datasets have now been made available as RDF, and the SPARQL query language enables sophisticated queries across datasets.”

The book examines projects including Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America, OCLC’s use of Schema.org and the development of the BIBFRAME data model and discusses how to migrate from a MARC to a linked data environment, how controlled vocabularies integrate with linked data and the role of authority control, identifiers and vocabularies including Web Ontology Language (OWL).

Ed Jones has been cataloguing serials, on and off, since 1976, and over the years has authored several scholarly papers and made numerous presentations on serials cataloguing, the FRBR and FRAD conceptual models, and RDA. He has been a member of the CONSER Operations Committee, on and off, since 1981, and recently served as an RDA advisor. In 1995, he received his doctorate in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is currently associate director for assessment and technical services at National University in San Diego.

Michele Seikel is a tenured professor and cataloguing librarian on the library faculty at Oklahoma State University.  She has published several research papers in peer-reviewed technical services journals. In ALA, she has co-chaired the Cataloging Norms Interest Group and the Cataloging and Metadata Management Section’s Policy and Planning Committee. Currently, she chairs the ALCTS Planning Committee.

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Press and review copies contact:

James Williams, Marketing Manager, Facet Publishing
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0597
Email: james.williams@facetpublishing.co.uk
 

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Linked Data for Cultural Heritage| Sep 2016 | 160pp | paperback: 9781783301621

The book is published by Facet Publishing and is available from Bookpoint Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)1235 827702 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 827703 | Email: facet@bookpoint.co.uk | Web: www.facetpublishing.co.uk. | Mailing Address: Mail Order Dept, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD. It is available in North America from theAmerican Library Association.

CILIP brings you a webinar presented by Sarah Dillingham from Case Study Ninja. Case studies are stories about how you help your users. They are a powerful tool to increase impact,especially when combined with the resources in the Impact Toolkit. In this webinar Sarah will take you through some practical tips on how to write a case study and bring it to life. You will cover how to get the most out of your case study so that it works for you to prove the impact of your service. At the end of the webinar you will receive a template to help you create your own case studies.

The webinar will be recorded, and the recording will be made available on the CILIP VLE to members after the event. By registering for this event you are agreeing to this.

Who can attend

This event is limited to CILIP members only. You will require your membership number to register for this event.

• CILIP Individual Members - if you have your own membership of CILIP you can attend this event for free
• CILIP Organisational Members - if  you don't have your own CILIP membership but your organisation is a CILIP Organisational Member you can register for the CILIP Organisational Member ticket for £12 (includes VAT).

Register for your place via the EventBrite page using the Book Now link.

Library Safari's are aimed at those new to library and information work, considering library careers or wanting to find out more about the information professions.  By the end of the day you will have:
* An improved understanding of library and information work, and the options available
* Awareness of qualifications and routes to professional registration
* Awareness of typical library roles and workplaces and the variety of different kinds of information work
 

The September 2016 issue of Catalogue and Index is now available. The theme of this issue is research and it showcases some of the work on cataloguing and metadata that is currently being conducted in an academic context.  We have a contribution from Anne Welsh, a lecturer at UCL, who has published widely in this field, and who is currently undertaking a PhD in cultural studies. We also have pieces from graduate students who presented at the LISDIS conference in 2015 in Huddersfield, looking at female book collectors of the 19th century, two 19th century book collectors who presented their collections to Cambridge University, and the Ladybird books from 1940-1980.  There is also a review of the recent CIG conference. Papers from the conference will feature in the next issue of Catalogue and Index.

The number of open access (OA) research articles published annually is growing at double the rate of the complete spectrum of research articles according to the most recent report from media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information. The report, Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020, found that open access already represents about a third of all research articles published when articles completing their embargo periods are included.

Open access revenue generated by article processing charges (APCs) is also growing fast, but it’s a relatively small revenue stream for scholarly journal publishers. OA sales revenue only represents 3.2% of global 2015 STM journal sales. But that business segment is a bright spot in what is otherwise a flat market for academic journal sales.

The influence of OA is felt even more strongly in the number of OA articles published. The Directory of Open Access Journals lists nearly 2.3 million OA articles. Simba estimates this number will continue to grow and will top 3 million by 2020.

“The open access evolution is in full swing,” said Dan Strempel, senior analyst business and professional group at Simba Information. “This rate of growth will put a lot of pressure on the prevailing subscription model in the coming years. Publishers who are confident of their OA pricing and costs may increasingly choose to convert established subscription journals to an open access model.”

The press release notes that Open Access Journal Publishing 2016-2020 provides detailed market information for this segment of scholarly journal publishing. It analyzes trends impacting the industry and forecasts market growth to 2020. The report includes an in-depth review of 10 leading OA publishers, including Springer Nature (including Biomed Central), PLOS, Hindawi, John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier, Frontiers, Wolters Kluwer Medknow and others.

A one-day seminar organised by EUROLIS (the consortium of librrians from European cultural institutes in London) and CILIP, focusing on the role of libraries as institutions at the forefront of profound changes in society.

Leading experts from Spain, Italy, France, Portugal and Germany will present current projects and share their experiences and ideas with the audience.

The seminar will be chaired by Martyn Wade, Chair of the CILIP Board and IFLA FAIFE committee.

Fri 25 November 2016 09:30 – 16:30

Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2PH

Cost £60 (concessions £50) including lunch

Book your place through Eventbrite   (in case of problems with this link the full web address for bookings is here at 

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Link to   EUROLIS    website   -   full web address    https://eurolis.wordpress.com/

Link to   CILIP   website   -  full web address   http://www.cilip.org.uk/

Link to    IFLA FAIFE Advisory Committee   website    - f ull web address    http://www.ifla.org/faife

We are delighted to announce that the winner of our student bursary is Leo Appleton.

Leo is researching the value and impact of public libraries in the UK on citizenship development, and applied for the grant to conduct focus groups across the UK.

Look out for a piece by Leo in a future article of Sunrise!

Congratulations to Leo, and well done to all applicants, it was a very difficult decision for the judging panel.

CILIP SE in Hants & Wight invite you to an evening talk " Working with Ministers", a light hearted look at the work of Government ministers.

Are you thinking about applying for a degree in Library and Information Studies? Are you worried about funding your studies? Do you want to know more about the different options out there?

CILIP East are hosting an afternoon event on 10th November at St John’s College Cambridge, where you will hear from programme directors and recent graduates from the LIS departments at UCL, City, Sheffield, Northumbria and Aberystwyth.

We will be covering full-time, part-time and distance learning options.

You will have plenty of opportunities to ask questions during the panel discussion and find out about specific courses during refreshments, where each LIS department will host a mini exhibition.

You will also have time to network with other attendees as well as representatives from CILIP East including the New Professionals Support Officer, and the CILIP East Chair.

There is a small fee to attend the event which will in part cover costs associated with the event.  Any profit made on this event will contribute to the CILIP East Small Grants Fund.