Creating Local Linkages is a free online course for library staff to develop skills in research and digital local history. It has been designed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Originally run as a credit-bearing course, it is now available for free, self-taught learning.
The five modules cover topics including:
- developing research/public history projects
- locating and understanding primary sources
- using Omeka to publish digital collections
- copyright, permissions and re-use
- understanding the Dublin Core Metadata Schema
- planning outreach activities.
Although it has an American focus, it would be suitable for library, archive and museum staff in Britain. It would particularly suit members of staff new to digital history or public history projects. Start here: https://locallinkages.org/course/ and work through at your own pace.
CILIP Local Studies Group 
This is so helpful to local studies staff in this climate. Learning is such an important aspect of local studies work and is so clearly brought out. As well as developing IT skills doing local and family history develops general research skills – evaluating, analysing and presenting evidence etc – and this applies to the whole collection, not just the online sources. People often underestimate how important local and family history can be for people who feel they have missed out on formal education.