The winner of the award will be announced by Phil Beadle on 23 April 2008 at the Library + information Show (LiS), Hall 11, NEC, Birmingham
The three shortlisted library projects are:
Nunny TV - North East Lincolnshire Library Service
Time2Give – Kent Libraries & Archives: Community and Cultural Services
Bradford/CareTrust Libraries Partnership Project – Bradford Libraries and Archive Information Service
Nunny TV
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Nunsthorpe library serves a community with high levels of unemployment, low literary and education achievement, health problems and high teenage pregnancies.
Working with Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education, Channel 7 and local businesses Nunsthorpe Library offers free training in the use of the latest digital stills and video cameras and digital editing facilities. The aim of the project was to provide people with tools and the training to say what they want to whom they want giving the local community a “visual voice”. In addition the library produces a monthly half hour TV show broadcast on Virgin Media Channel 879. Volunteers of all ages from 11-70 yrs work together to record stories from virtual councillor’s surgeries to reports on community activities and events.
The scheme has given local people a whole range of new skills. Teamwork, research, planning, timekeeping, presentation and communication skills, IT and use of new technologies have boosted self esteem and employability, a fact supported by the number of work placements arranged with Nunny TV through local employment services. The scheme has encouraged people to take an interest in their community.
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Time2Give
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Time2Give is one of Kent Libraries and Archives volunteering programmes. It encourages local people to become actively involved in the library service by supporting the development and delivery of extra activities and services.
Time2Give changes the lives of volunteers, staff, customers and reaches into the broader community by providing opportunities for real and active community engagement, personal development, skill enhancement, asset sharing, improved health and well being, personal development skills and shared assets in an atmosphere of inclusions and diversity.
The programme offered a broad menu of volunteering activities to interest people of all ages and abilities which included Computer buddies (aka Web Wizards) helping customers with ICT queries, local studies volunteers helping staff develop additional resource and information, family and life long activities, supporting access to library services and general service support.
These programmes have impacted on the lives of a wider community with whom the library have not been previously engaged. Changes may have been small in some instances relating to better understanding or changed perception, on other occasions they have impacted on people’s life choices.
Kent County Council
Bradford/CareTrust Libraries Partnership Project
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During August 2007, the Care Trust approached the library with a proposal for a ground breaking course for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. This group are frequently excluded from educational opportunities due to their physical needs.
The Bradford Care Trust/Libraries Partnership Project aimed to integrate services users with learning disabilities into the community using the Central Library as a focus for a range of activities. Rooms in the library were adapted for use by the Care Trust for their Sign Posting Service, as a classroom and as the “Changing Places” changing and feeding facility for people with severe disabilities (the only one in the city centre.)
Service users also make extensive use of the library ”Learning Zone” and café area where they would socialise with other library users. Regular visits would ensure they felt comfortable and gradually become more IT literate enabling them to access e-government services and more importantly be more fully integrated into the community. Both learners and support workers were delighted with the course and the support which they have received from library staff.