Inspire: add your region Inspiring learners through libraries

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Inspire add your region Inspiring learners
through libraries

• Name of Library
• 00.00.200..

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Inspire England

• What is Inspire?
• Why Inspire is important
• Key facts for libraries
• Benefits for library users and library staff
• Questions and answers

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What is Inspire?

• Inspire is a national programme that seeks to
  support learning at all levels by providing easy
  access to libraries regardless of sector or of
  geography

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All Libraries ?

• Inspire is funded to work with public, academic
  and national libraries in England but is keen to
  involve libraries from any other sector as their
  inclusion will strengthen and enrich the offer to
  learners

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Inspire Partners and Steering Group

• The British Library (BL)
• CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and
  Information Professionals)
• MLA Council regional MLACs
• Society of Chief Librarians (SCL)
• SCONUL (Society of College, National and
  University Libraries)
• Inspire Directors
• Andrew Green (SCL Coventry City Council)
• Philip Payne (SCONUL Birkbeck College)

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Why Inspire is important

• Libraries open doors to knowledge and learning
• Knowledge can lead to greater social inclusion
  through
• better health
• enhanced ability to manage life
• greater confidence
• Knowledge can also lead to learning and
  employability
• Greater employability leads to support for both
  the local and national economy
• Inspire is a tool to help librarians to help
  others on their lifelong learning voyage

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Widening Participation
Raising learner aspirations
Knowledge Economy
DCMS Framework for the Future
BL Regional Programme
Inspire England
Young participation in Higher Education
Health and Wellbeing
Aimhigher Partnerships for Progression
Social Inclusion
LIS workforce development
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Framework for the Future (DCMS 2003)

• Strategic vision for 2013
• Any member of a public library can also access
  materials held in Higher Education and Further
  Education libraries
• Anyone seeking opportunities for learning and
  training can be guided to a course through a
  public library

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UK Higher Education sector Aimhigher

• A joint initiative of HEFCE and LSC
• Direct link to governments target of 50
  widening HE participation by 2010
• Encourage more and better-prepared students to
  stay in education post 16
• Raise attainment and participation among young
  people under-represented in HE
• Build on and encompass regional partnerships

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What Inspire aims to achieve

• Create a clear, cross-sectoral access route to
  information and knowledge for learners
• Link 875 HE, 4610 public and 3 national libraries
  and many others from all library sectors
• Build on the current network of successful access
  partnerships
• Create a single pathway to resources irrespective
  of geography or sector
• Enable libraries to enhance their service to
  their primary users but add provision of managed
  reciprocal access and referral to other libraries
  
• learners everyone

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Inspire in the eg Midregion

• List local libraries registered with Inspire

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Key facts for Libraries Inspire is built on a
framework

• Registration of all Public and HE libraries in
  England encouragement of libraries from other
  sectors to join
• Creation of the Inspire Kitemark criteria to
  ensure a coherent national offer
• Use of managed referral between libraries
• Support for registering libraries by provision
  of
• Findit! an easy to use online resource discovery
  tool
• publicity materials for all participating
  libraries
• a briefing pack with information for all staff
  involved
• Encouraging outreach to potential learners

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Key facts INSPIRE kitemark criteria

• As a minimum, give library visitors reference
  access to hard copy materials
• Publicise Inspire within the library and
  information service and to the wider community
• Provide information for the Inspire online
  gateway on
• collection strengths and special collections
• access details and terms
• Reflect your commitment to cooperative working
  with Inspire partners in your service plans
• Help to demonstrate Inspire usage and impact by
  gathering statistics, written comment or verbal
  feedback

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Key facts INSPIRE kitemark criteria

• Libraries to ensure that
• An appropriate member of staff is nominated as
  Inspire key contact
• All staff are briefed on Inspire scheme
• Designated staff receive in-depth training
  (supported by Inspire) and cascade information
  about the scheme to other staff
• Inspire is included in induction and on-going
  training programmes

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Key facts Support from Inspire

• Inspire will provide
• Information about resources in other libraries
  and how users can access this information through
  Findit!
• An Information Pack with standard forms that can
  be used or adapted to suit local needs
• Additional training materials
• Publicity materials

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Benefits for users and potential users

• Inspire opens up access to libraries information
  and learning opportunities previously unavailable
  to them
• Inspire is for everyone regardless of whether
  they are an informal learner, on a formal course
  of learning, a researcher or an enthusiastic
  amateur
• Inspire creates of a national service so a
  recognisable minimum standard of access will
  apply everywhere
• Enhances the knowledge and skills of library
  staff to
• Help users to find the information they need
• Help to ensure their visit to a new library is
  successful

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Benefits for libraries and library staff

• Participation in Inspire can
• Help libraries to achieve government targets and
  to raise their profile
• with their parent organisation
• within the region
• with the public
• Enable library staff to give a better service to
  their core users, through
• improved knowledge of both local and national
  resources through Findit! and improved local
  knowledge
• enhanced opportunities for staff development

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Benefits Enhancing staff development

• Inspire supports awareness raising for all staff,
  including security, teaching staff and others
• The Inspire Information Pack can be used for
  awareness raising and basic staff training
• Development of co-operative training locally and
  within the regions will be encouraged
• Inspire will provide workshops on data entry into
  Cornucopia the database that underpins the
  Findit! website

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Staff development opportunities

• Training together, work-shadowing and visits
  to other libraries can have many benefits
• The development of greater understanding of
  issues and work in other library sectors
• Gives staff confidence in making referrals
• Increases opportunities for local training
• Opens up access to a greater pool of specialist
  knowledge and experience that can be shared
• Makes a greater range of meeting venues available

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Questions and answers

• This has not happened
• Borrower schemes can remain
• Inspire visitors unlikely to create problems
• Handled through training and normal procedures
• Expectations managed via website and referral

• Overwhelming demand for scant
  resources
• Loss of income from external borrower schemes
• Security worries
• Extra demands on staff
• Unrealistic expectations amongst users

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Inspire working together

• Inspire is encouraging libraries not only
  passively to open your doors but actively to work
  together -
• To encourage other libraries to take part
• To make the best use of the resources you have by
  making sure that people know what is in your
  library
• To ensure staff have the knowledge and skills to
  guide learners and potential learners to
  libraries and information
• To remove the barriers that inhibit people from
  taking that step thorough the door and into a new
  library and asking for the information they need

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So - the aim of Inspire is

• to harness the resources of libraries and the
  skills of library staff to support learning in
  its widest sense
• to make libraries visible and accessible to all
  those who can benefit from them

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Inspire contacts

• Local Inspire contact
• Please add details
• Regional contact
• Please add details
• National contact
• Sally Curry, National Partnerships Manager
• 0191 222 8655, sally.curry_at_ncl.ac.uk

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Useful websites option to add local information

• Inspire
• http//www.inspire.gov.uk
• Findit!
• http//www.findit.org.uk
• AddLib Cumbria
• http//www.addlibcumbria.co.uk
• SYALL South Yorkshire Access to Libraries
  Learning
• http//www.syall.org.uk
• The British Library Training Package
• http//www.bl.uk/training_package/introductio
  n.html