Elizabeth Waite

Elizabeth Waite has recently been appointed as BBC Library Partnership Manager working in the BBC Learning team. Elizabeth has ten years' mix of library and BBC experience; she was a graduate trainee at Lincoln 's Inn law library prior to completing a MSc Information Management at Sheffield University . She spent five years as a librarian at Lovells, an international law firm where she became a chartered member of CILIP in 2002. Elizabeth moved to the BBC in 2004 to work in compliance teams advising on Freedom of Information, Data Protection and Fair Trading matters across the organisation.

Detail Session 8

Window box - Public Library Partnership with the BBC

Lord Reith defined the purpose of the BBC as "to inform, to entertain and to educate”, a similar statement could be used to describe the role of the public library service. The formal partnership between the BBC and libraries enables both organisations to use the strengths of each to deliver on key national agendas. Libraries are able to use the mass market reach of the BBC to support delivery of key priorities shared by both organisations. These have included campaigns such as the RAW campaign and Breathing Places. The session will look at what the BBC partnership has achieved and plans for the future, it will highlight the benefits of joint working between a national organisation and local authorities.