Library
Camp SW 2104
is being held in the new (so new it hasn’t been opened yet) Exeter
Library on 5th July 10 am – 4.30 pm.
What is Library Camp SW? The background to Library Camp SW is:
The
inaugural Library Camp SW was held in July 2012 at the University of Exeter and
was a success despite flooding and landslides preventing some of the attendees
reaching Exeter. This was followed by a
second Library Camp SW in July 2013 at the University of Bristol. Increased
attendance and the sun shining for the picnic in the park created another
successful event.
The
people who attended these Library Camps were from a range of libraries;
academic, public, museum, health etc including a completely digital library,
and from linked occupations such as Library Management Systems, Bristol
Literature Festival and LiteratureWorks, a literature development charity for
the South West. People journeyed from
Cornwall across the South West as far as Dorset and also from Oxford and
London!
Library
Camp SW is run as an unconference where the attendees discuss the issues that
matter to them. The range of suggestions
for the discussion sessions depends on the experience, expertise and interests
of the attendees. So people pitched session
ideas at the start of the day and you then chose 5 of the 20 sessions which you
were most interested in.
Past sessions include:
Innovation
in Libraries
|
Social
Media
|
External
funding
|
Your
dream library
|
Information
Literacy
|
Chartership
|
Apps
|
Libraries
of the Future
|
Disaster
Management
|
Research in libraries
|
Collaboration
|
Library
Displays
|
Book repairs
|
Reading
Groups
|
E
books
|
Retaining & attracting teens
|
Mobile devices in libraries
|
Promoting Library Services
|
If
this blog has caught your interest please go to http://libcampsw2014.wikispaces.com/
for information about this year’s Library Camp and the link to the free
tickets.
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