Keynote address: Digital in Wales: improving the lives of everyone through collaboration, innovation and better public services
The opening keynote session took the form of two short presentations from Sally Meecham at the Centre for Digital Public Services and Sam Hall, the Chief Digital Officer
for Local Government. Both were asked to discuss their current work and to highlight the potential of libraries and the information profession to contribute to it in Wales.
Keynote address: Digital in Wales: improving the lives of everyone through collaboration, innovation and better public services
The opening keynote session took the form of two short presentations from Sally Meecham at the Centre for Digital Public Services and Sam Hall, the Chief Digital Officer
for Local Government. Both were asked to discuss their current work and to highlight the potential of libraries and the information profession to contribute to it in Wales.
Keynote address: From Open to FAIR : the art of digital cultural heritage in the world
Digital cultural heritage data from libraries, archives and museums have seen exciting changes in the last decade with the discussion about open access to their collections. This keynote will elaborate on this journey and the challenges
ahead, told from the perspective of the Rijksmuseum, one of the early open data champions in the Open GLAM world.
Universal Credit and Digital Inclusion in Public Libraries
This paper, researched and written in collaboration with Dr Alyson Tyler, focuses on digital inclusion and public libraries in Wales, partly from the perspective of recent developments in Universal Credit. It highlights some of
the findings from a recent scoping study into the impact of Universal Credit on public library services and user needs, and discusses how public libraries are adapting to personal, social and technical changes and what near-future
trends might mean for public library services.
Estyn Allan (literally Reaching out) is a collaborative project involving all 22 public library services in Wales, led by SCL Cymru, delivering an intense technical and creative training programme for frontline staff in delivering
bilingual digital library activities, to retain and extend library audiences. The project’s chair and co-ordinator will share the project’s activity and impact on the trainees and its potential for the new blended model of
service delivery.
In a world pandemic the need for the fast dissemination of good quality, reliable information to those on the front line is of paramount importance. This talk takes a look at some of the ways in which the NHS Wales Library Service
worked to meet this requirement and some of the challenges it faced.
Using What We Know and Thinking Ahead: Data, democracy and future decision-making
How Understanding Welsh Places, a bilingual website that presents information on the economy, demographic make-up and local services of more than 300 places in
Wales in a quick and easy format, can help people across Wales to shape the post-pandemic future of the places where they live and work. And why we need to find better ways to listen to citizens’ voices and could start by exploring
the Live Learning Partnership’s stories.
A session looking at imaginative, quirky and practical ways of using activism in libraries.
Excluded Voices @WHELF feedback session
This talk will focus on the activities of the WHELF Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Group, from the initial formation up to the recent Excluded Voices virtual conference.
The National Library of Wales has been digitising its collections for over 20 years. However, in recent years, the resources and funding available for mass digitisation have significantly reduced. In this talk I will look at some
of the actions we have taken to ensure we can continue to provide access to our collections, and how we have used remote working during the global pandemic to make efficiencies in our workflows. I will look at the actions we
took to ensure work could continue, and show how remote working enabled us to record a record year of productivity.
How might you and your library, or organisation explore, integrate and benefit from Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies? I'll share some examples, resources and thoughts which I hope will convince you that this is not only
less of a challenge than you might be thinking, but is probably a wise strategy to start engaging with sooner rather than later; oh, and it can be a wonderful adventure too!
How the Books Council encouraged publishers to create 1,000 new Welsh language e-books during COVID, and a delivery model to sell direct to the public and aggregate to the rest of the market (whilst keeping bookshops satisfied
that e-books would not rival their market).
Knowledge and the transmission of knowledge in Cambodia was closely linked to religion and kingship. The temples and the royal court were repositories of information, religious texts and annals. Much was lost during the reign of
the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, a regime which annihilated education and learning. After 1979 much has been rebuilt but it is a slow process which started from nothing and encounters many challenges and issues not encountered
in the western world.
Workers of the World Unite: South Wales Miners’ Library and global impact
Partnerships with the South Wales Miners’ Library across libraries and community organisations in Australia and the USA over the past 40 years, exploring past, current and future potential for collaboration.
Global Adventures of a Welsh Librarian: From Caernarfon to the Library of Congress, Ljubljana, Istanbul, Paris and Madrid
A whistlestop tour of international collaboration. This talk will touch on metadata projects with the Library of Congress, digital collaboration with Europeana, participation in the LIBER Emerging Leaders Programme, and a digital
literacy project with Syrian academic exiles in Istanbul.
Open for entries Friday 21 May 2021 Deadline for entries Thursday 30 September 2021 Shortlist announced W/C Thursday 21 October 2021 Awards Event Thursday 4 November at CCW 2021 AGM
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