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2014 The Partnership in Practice: Over by Christmas? Will Reid (LIPA) and Val Stevenson (LJMU)

2014 The Partnership in Practice: Over by Christmas? Will Reid (LIPA) and Val Stevenson (LJMU). Introduction. Background of Libraries Together Collaboration Why WW1? The exhibitions Curation and publicity Events Future for Libraries Together. Background.

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2014 The Partnership in Practice: Over by Christmas? Will Reid (LIPA) and Val Stevenson (LJMU)

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  1. 2014 The Partnership in Practice: Over by Christmas? Will Reid (LIPA) and Val Stevenson (LJMU)

  2. Introduction • Background of Libraries Together Collaboration • Why WW1? • The exhibitions • Curation and publicity • Events • Future for Libraries Together

  3. Background • Liverpool Libraries Together history. • Emphasis on collaboration over staff development and access for our readers. • “Over by Christmas” natural progression. • First time participating in national event.

  4. Why WW1? • National/regional/local programme of commemorative events. • The Liverpool Home Front. • Library collections – focus on what was happening in Liverpool. • Our institutions: effect of the war on education and our city.

  5. Developing the Programme. • Playing to our strengths. • WW1 Steering Group. • Agreeing Contributions. • Curation, Publicity and marketing.

  6. Central Library Display on life in the city, including;- • recruitment campaigns, • munitions production, • the role of women, and education, • hospitals for wounded soldiers, • leisure activities.

  7. City of Liverpool College • Exhibition features original artefacts, photographs and memorabilia from the First World War donated by City of Liverpool College staff. These include an 18lb bomb shell dug up at Vartlett Farm in Belgium which was fired during battle at Passchendaele. • The exhibition is housed in the City of Liverpool College’s state of the art building at the back of St Luke’s Church

  8. Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) Centring upon the old Liverpool Institute for Boys . Over 220 former students perished and the monument honouring their sacrifice has been preserved andrededicated at LIPA. More details of the students named on the memorial are available via the Old Boys Association at:www.liobians.org/warmemorials/restoration.html

  9. Liverpool John Moores University LJMU grew into its current form by the amalgamation of several colleges in the City. The items in the exhibition are drawn from the archives of these individual colleges. They show how the war affected the curriculum and efforts made to address issues such as rationing and the provision of courses for disabled soldiers to learn new skills. Throughout 2014, LJMU is running the Merseyside at War project, collecting memories, photographs and documents from the time

  10. University of Liverpool This section draws on letters and diaries in the University collections to show how key dates in the war affected the lives of staff and students in Liverpool and elsewhere, and how the writers reflected upon their experiences. This is complemented by items from the Liverpool Philomathic Society archive showing the response of Liverpool businessmen to the outbreak of war, and how the progress of the war changed the LPS and broadened its membership to women for the first time. The experience of children during the war is captured by annuals , adventure stories and spy fiction from the Children’s Book collection, with their vivid pictorial covers.

  11. Victoria Gallery and Museum • The varied experiences of staff and students of the University of Liverpool are examined under the groupings ‘Professors, Parents, Patriots , Pacifists’ exploring how the war affected their lives and their outlooks. • As the University struggled to maintain classes with so many in wartime service abroad or on the home front, staff found new roles for their expertise and came to terms with their losses, reflected on the war memorial within sight of the Red.

  12. Events Friday 11 July, 2pm Over by Christmas? Exhibition launch . Central Library Saturday 2nd August and Monday 4th August The day that war broke out . Central Library Wednesday 3rd September, 5.30pm A glorious example: reading the British Home Front of the Great War in Propaganda Posters . Aldham Robarts LJMU Tuesday 23 September, 4pm Talk about a Lost World, talk about the end of the World, talk about the Night Land: World War One and the Literature of the Fantastic. Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool Wednesday 24 September, 4pm Facing the past: remembering and commemorating the First World War Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool Friday 26 September, 6pm Bread and Jam and Resurrection: Stanley Spencer's War Art . Victoria Gallery.

  13. Future collaborations • Promotion: twitter, web site etc. • Walk-in access. • New publications. • Volunteer register. • Staff development activities. • Offer tours for staff.

  14. Questions?

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