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Wednesday 7 October 14.30 - 17.00

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Delegates may choose one topic before and one after the break

Time Session
14.30-15.30

Windows of opportunity – promoting the public library service

Elizabeth Elford, British Library

 

Transfer windows – community managed libraries

Lesley Noblett, Cambridgeshire CC

 

Through the looking glass – services for people with sight loss

Pat Beech, RNIB National Library Service

 

Elected Members' workshop

New windows - libraries engaging with young people

Claire Styles, The Reading Agency, Sue Wilkinson, MLA & Cllr Paul Crossley with Alex Mangnall, age 15, student at St Gregory's Catholic High School, Warrington and Alex Pendlebury, age 15, student at Woolston Community High School, Warrington

 

Open windows – strategic commissioning in libraries

Paul Bristow, MLA

15.30-16.00

Break

16.00-17.00

Window tax? – Use of developer contributions for library buildings

Martin Elson, Oxford Brookes University

 

Broken windows, broken lives – services to Looked After Children

John Vincent, The Network

 

Window box - Public Library Partnership with the BBC

Elizabeth Waite, BBC Library Partnership Manager

 

Books as Windows: how shared reading helps us to look out and in

Jane Davis, The Reader Organisation

 

Looking through a new window: Private sector delivery of Libraries

Tim Grier and Claire Griffiths, John Laing Integrated Services

 

 

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