Creating, sharing, and measuring the impact of Public Library digital content with People’s Collection Wales

Delivering culture and heritage to audiences online has become increasingly important in 2020.

CILIP Cymru Wales (CCW), CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group (MDG), CILIP Local Studies Group and People's Collection Wales (PCW) invite librarians across Wales to an online PCW session which will show librarians how to share digital content, re-purpose it via the Hwb and Living memory initiatives, and measure its impact – all via the PCW site. 

This session with be followed up with bespoke training and facilitation to help libraries in Wales get their items and collections online.

Session outline:

• About us: People's Collection Wales
• An introduction to uploading digital content to PCW
• An introduction to linking content from PCW to Hwb Learning and teaching for Wales
• An introduction to linking content from PCW with the Living Memory initiative
• An introduction to measuring digital impact
• Discussion: what next?

   

  At the end of this session participants will be able to:

• Identify materials for uploading to PCW
• Describe materials for upload to PCW
• Identify opportunities to develop new resources for Hwb and Living memory
• Identify opportunities to promote and evaluate your users’ digital activities on PCW
• Tailor subsequent training sessions around what you need to start sharing content via PCW

The session is free and open to all.

This session will provide a useful oversight for all library and information professionals in Wales hoping to improve user engagement with digital collections. It will be particularly useful for public library and archives staff with local studies collections.

Presenters:

PCW: Tom Pert, Gruffydd Jones, Rheinallt Ffoster-Jones Jessica Roberts

Facilitators: Amy Staniforth, CILIP Cymru Wales, Jane Daniels, CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group