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Connect-Er

Connect-Er. Connecting with people Liz McGettigan Libraries and Information Services Manager. Outline. Where we are What we’ve done Information and electronic services Learning services Heritage services Business services. Free broadband Internet and e-mail Free ICT learning

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Connect-Er

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  1. Connect-Er Connecting with peopleLiz McGettigan Libraries and Information Services Manager

  2. Outline • Where we are • What we’ve done • Information and electronic services • Learning services • Heritage services • Business services

  3. Free broadband Internet and e-mail Free ICT learning 24/7 access to the library services – reservations, renewals Libraries website Online enquiries Council website Community websites - Community safety Access Panel Holocaust website Heritage websites Information and electronic services

  4. 5 Learn Direct centres Free ICT training 1/1 training as required Support Electronic booking system Learner tracking system ECDL test centre CV, Typing lifestyle courses Learning services

  5. Film: People’s Network documentary(feat Frank McKell, library user) The People’s Network 2003Short documentary film

  6. Community portal

  7. Barrhead-scotland.com • First community website • Content from the community • Steered by the community • Owned by the community

  8. Its Funny Whit Ye Remember 2003Barrhead People’s Story Audio – ‘Barrhead Laundry’ by Margaret Quail, Barrhead People’s Story Group

  9. Neilston Railway StationCentenary 2003Working with the Community Film – ‘The Royal Train Visit 1964’ Audio – ‘The Beeching Report’ by Gina Henderson (Historical Society)

  10. East Renfrewshire’s Community Safety Portal

  11. East Renfrewshire’s Access Panel website maintained by volunteers

  12. Making a difference to Heritage services • Giffnock heritage centre • Local area heritage websites • Local area history publications • Information requests services • Genealogy and family history classes

  13. Barrhead Heritage Trail - Involving the community in their heritage

  14. Oral testimonies Research Website CDROM Booklet Gypsy and Jewish Storytelling workshops Survivors talks in libraries Book and film displays in libraries Bookmarks Bibliographies Resources lists The Holocaust project

  15. The Elements • Interviews • Oral testimonies • Research • Sourcing artefacts and images • Breadth of contents Ernest tells of how his brothers had to dig their own graves, how he just survived and no more and was found lying in the dust in Belsen.

  16. Survivors Testimonies Film clip: ‘If the Liberation Came One Day Later’, by Ernest Levy, Holocaust Survivor

  17. Audio selection, text transcriptions, biography, personal images, bibliography, web links

  18. Children's Artwork – Secondary & Primary Schools

  19. Online Learning Resources –Books, stories, history, media

  20. End users’ responses – a sample page from the guest book

  21. 2.5-3,000 hits per week 1,000 CD ROMS Now used as a learning tool in schools in Scotland Guest book comments National and international interest (IFLA) TV and radio Word of mouth Making a difference?

  22. Current ICT Projects • Community portal and CP areas • Children’s portal animation and interactive anti-drugs games • Learning portal • Heritage portal • Digitisation project

  23. Making a difference? changing lives? • Libraries relevant and real to community life • Libraries contributing to corporate and national agendas • Libraries leading, innovating and producing quality educational resources and e-content • Libraries showing how to make ICT interesting and useful

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