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Book Now for LSG Conference 2025

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We are pleased to start the New Year by announcing the theme and line-up for our annual conference. In 2025, we will be exploring community wellbeing with a great range of speakers in Manchester.

Local Studies and Archive services contribute to community health and wellbeing in many ways. It makes our collections and expertise ever more relevant to our organisations, customers and local areas. Come and join us in the historic Central Library for informative sessions on how you can design impactful activities and brilliant outcomes, in the most creative ways.

Local Studies and Community Wellbeing

Date and time: Monday 7th April 2025 | 10 am – 4 pm.

Location: Performance Space, Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester, M2 5PD.

Register via the CILIP website. (CILIP members should login first to receive the member rate).


Speakers confirmed include:

  • Dr Michala Hulme, award-winning Historian and Genealogist, Podcaster, and who has appeared on many national and regional TV programmes. Michala will be talking about her popular podcast and especially how Family History has been supporting men’s mental health.
  • Karen Shannon, CEO Manchester Histories and Hon. Research Fellow at Manchester University. Manchester Histories, with a hub in Manchester Central library, deliver inspirational work with local communities, and we will have an introduction to their new Heritage and Wellbeing Toolkit
  • Isobel McDonald, Glasgow Life Museums. Glasgow’s award-winning museums are rooted in the community, and we will learn about their work, notably with the Bangladesh community and the city’s Lascar Heritage, winner of the Alan Ball Award for Local History.
  • Julie Davis, Archives and Local Studies Lead officer, and colleagues from the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, will reveal what has been learned from their community engagement projects
  • Hannah Turner, Local Studies Librarian for Lancashire Archives, also giving insights into their community work in the county.
  • Dr Paul Carter, Principal Records Specialist (Collaborative Projects), The National Archives, will be talking about the impact of volunteering
  • Matt Grace, English Heritage, will be introducing their new online content for historic buildings and how they can support wellbeing.
  • Plus, a tour of Manchester Central Library and an introduction to the Local History Collections.

Ticket Prices

  • £25 Member (login via CILIP website to receive member rate)
  • £27 Employer Partner (login with your employer partner details to receive this discount)
  • £30 Non-Member

Register via the CILIP website.

Lunch is provided.

In a Manor of Speaking: An introduction to manors and manorial documents

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Ever wanted to know more about manors and their records? Join Beth Elliott, Project Archivist for the Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor project, on Monday 27 June for an introduction. This online talk will look at manorial documents and the wealth of information that can be gained from them.

There will also be details about the Everyday Life in a Northumbrian Manor project. The project will work volunteers to transcribe collections of Northumbrian manorial records and make them available online.

Register on Eventbrite

Historic Libraries Forum 2021 Annual Meeting and AGM

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Join the Historic Libraries Forum on Wednesday 1 December for a fascinating trio of case studies exploring the various ways historic libraries have sought to engage their users and stakeholders online. The event will start with a short AGM and finish with a round table featuring librarians from a variety of historic/special libraries discussing their experiences under Covid-19. Register here

Schedule

14.00 Welcome, introductions and housekeeping

14.05 Historic Libraries Forum AGM

14.20 Session One

Enhancing collection access, online and off – Mari James (Library Development Officer, St David’s Cathedral)

Engaging digital volunteers – Tom Bilson (Head of Digital Media, The Courtauld)

15.15 Break

15.30 Session Two

Delivering a successful online event – Dr Jamie Cumby (Assistant Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, Linda Hall Library)

Has Covid-19 exacerbated a digital divide in our sector? Round table discussion

Steven Archer (Sub-Librarian, Trinity College, Cambridge), Julie Davis (County Local Studies Librarian, Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre), Dr Helen Kemp (Plume Librarian, Thomas Plume’s Library) and Emma Laws (Devon and Exeter Institution)

16.30 Close

The Library: A Fragile History

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Readers may be interested in the following event in Manchester.

Celebrate the launch of Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree’s new book The Library: A Fragile History, under The Portico Library’s famous dome.

“Featuring the Portico Library, The Library: A Fragile History is the first major history of its kind, exploring the contested and dramatic history of the library, from the famous collections to the embattled public resources we cherish today.”

Event Details

Day: Wednesday, 10 November, 2021

Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Venue: The Portico Library, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY

Book tickets here.

Event: Lessons learned from family history digitisation

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Archives South West Webinar

Lessons learned from family history digitisation

Wednesday 21 April 2021 10.00-12.00

Archives South West is an English regional collaboration of local authority funded services whose vision is to promote collections care and knowledge and to encourage public engagement with the South West’s rich and varied archival heritage.

In recent years, many local authority archive services have worked with family history publishers such as Ancestry and Findmypast to digitise, index and publish popular collections such as parish registers. The costs of the digitisation are met by the publisher whilst the archive service also receives a royalty.

As part of a project looking at the potential of newspaper digitisation, Archives South West have collated lessons learned from previous digitisation projects that used a licensing approach. This project was funded by The National Archives.

This webinar is aimed at local authority archives and library staff in the United Kingdom who are thinking about working with a family history publisher to digitise collections or are renegotiating current contracts.

The webinar will be facilitated by Janet Tall,  Head of Archives, South West Heritage Trust, and Heather Forbes, Head of Archives Service, Gloucestershire Connty Council. Current speakers include:

– Kevin Bolton, independent consultant: lessons learned from the South West.

– Kim Collis, County Archivist, West Glamorgan Archives: the Welsh parish registers digitisation project.

– Larysa Bolton, Heritage Collections Manager, Manchester Central Library: the Greater Manchester Archives and Local Studies Partnership approach to family history digitisation.

There will also be an opportunity for questions and a general discussion.

The webinar is free, but priority will be given to Archives South West members and local authority archives and library staff in the United Kingdom.

The webinar will take place on Zoom, login details will be sent nearer to the event. To register, please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-south-west-lessons-learned-from-family-history-digitisation-tickets-141261185007

For more information, contact Kevin Bolton at kevin@kevinjbolton.com

New events with People’s Collection Wales

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In March and April, our friends CILIP Cymru Wales  are running three events of interest to local studies librarians. This follows on from last year’s successful event on sharing collections with People’s Collection Wales. Sessions are free and open to all.

Contributing to the Memory Archive with People’s Collection Wales

11/03/2021

This session will look at using special collections and archive material for reminiscence with people living with dementia. Further details: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1480408&group=201306

Creu, rhannu a mesur effaith cynnwys digidol Llyfrgelloedd Cyhoeddus

25/03/2021

Dilynir y sesiwn hon gyda hyfforddiant rhithwir a chefnogaeth bwrpasol i helpu llyfrgelloedd yng Nghymru i roi eu heitemau a’u casgliadau ar-lein. Further details: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1480519&group=201306

Curated content: using digital materials to tell stories with impact

08/04/2021

This session looks at creating stories with impact by bringing together digital and digitised materials in People’s Collection Wales. Further details: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1480502&group=201306

Autumn online training

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The Centre for the History of People, Place and Community have four online training workshops that may be of interest to local studies staff. All are in the Autumn. Free to attend, but you must book.

Cartography and Mapping for Publication – 9 September 2020

https://www.history.ac.uk/events/online-cartography-and-mapping-publication

Analysing Historic Settlement – 23 September 2020

https://www.history.ac.uk/events/online-analysing-historic-settlement

Reading and Writing Historic Buildings – 22 October 2020

https://www.history.ac.uk/events/online-reading-and-writing-historic-buildings

The National Archives, the Medieval State, Early Modern Litigation – 18 November 2020

https://www.history.ac.uk/events/online-national-archives-medieval-state-early-modern-litigation

Event: Heritage Interpretation Workshop

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Next Tuesday, University of Leicester Special Collections are running a free, public webinar looking at key ideas for interpreting and exhibiting archives.

Dr Peter Lester (School of Museum Studies) will lead a workshop looking at different types of exhibitions and a selection of interpretation techniques, as well as some thoughts around writing effective exhibition labels. The workshop will use examples of online exhibitions from archives and museums around the world, with the aim of inspiring you to start exploring these exciting resources. For participants planning and working on interpretation, the workshop will also help you to start thinking creatively about designing exhibitions. There will be opportunities to ask questions and to share your own examples of exhibitions you have visited.

Details

Heritage Interpretation Workshop

Tuesday 14 July 2020

10:30 – 12:00 BST

Sign-up via Eventbrite.