The Network was established
earlier this year to support all black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)
library and information workers, regardless of whether they hold CILIP
membership or not.
The event is free to attend and will be a valuable opportunity for BAME workers to hear from inspiring speakers, connect with a support network and to feedback to the BAME Network on what they’d like from the Network.
We’d really appreciate allies promoting this event and to support and encourage BAME colleagues to attend this event. The Allies Forum will hold a separate launch event at a later date – please watch this space.
Nominations are now open for the Alan Ball Award 2019 aka Local History Publication of the Year.
The award is open to all heritage and community organisations involved with some aspect of local history, and who have received public funding for the publication. Public funding includes lottery funding, e.g. Heritage Lottery Fund and Awards for All. In addition to local authority libraries, archives, museum and archaeology services, we welcome submissions from small local museums, heritage centres and community history projects. The publication needs to have appeared between July 2018 and June 2019.
We have two categories:
Print publication
E-publication.
One winner will be picked in each category.
Nominations close on the 30th November. To submit your nominations, please use the forms at the bottom of this page.
This free event will look at conserving and using sound recordings. This will interest any local history group or museum, library, archive or individual that holds sound recordings or is thinking of working with old sound recordings. It is organised by the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Midlands Hub and the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA), with support from the Oral History Society.
Date and time: Tuesday 9th July from 10am–3.30pm.
To register contact Colin Hyde on ch38@le.ac.uk or tel: 0116 229 7358. If you want lunch please state if you have any particular dietary requirements.
Location: Ogden Lewis seminar rooms, David Wilson Library, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH
Maps and directions can be found here – http://www.le.ac.uk/maps/ . The nearest public car park is the Granville Rd/Victoria Park car park, while the campus is a 20 minute walk from the train station.
Provisional Timetable
09.30-10.00 Tea/coffee/registration.
10.00-10.20 Introductions from Colin Hyde of the UOSH project. Updates from Helen Foster of EMOHA and Cynthia Brown of the OHS.
10.20-11.00 Why the UOSH project has been set up. What sound recordings exist in the region and why they are ‘at risk’? What will we be doing?
11.00-11.45 The history and identification of recording formats with hands-on examples.
11.45-12.00 Tea/coffee break.
12.00-12.45 Preservation of formats. A guide to digitisation.
12.45-13.30 Lunch (provided).
13.30-14.15 Cataloguing your sound recordings. Hints and tips.
14.15-14.30 Tea/coffee break.
14.30-15.15 Using the archives – ideas for what to do with your sound recordings. Learning and engagement.
15.15-15.30 Summing up/close with option of a look at the digitisation studio.
A free event in Birmingham next month for teachers, historians, and anyone interested in local history. Featuring talks and workshops on Oral History, Digital Storytelling, photography, and more. Book your place here .
CB Resourcing are recruiting for a Local Studies Librarian in the public library sector. It is a short-term contract until March 2020. The local authority is unnamed, but it seems to be in London. Find out more here.
Elizabeth Melrose (CILIP LSG Treasurer) recently presented Clements Hall Local History Group with their Alan Ball Award 2018 certificate. Susan Major accepted on behalf of everyone involved.
Susan Major from Clements Hall Local History Group
Clements Hall were highly commended in the e-publication category for their online resources exploring the impact of the First World War onthe Scarcroft, Clementhorpe and South Bank areas of York. Following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, they worked on a two year research project. Topics include:
We are increasingly impressed with the quality of resources this category, which suggests that web services and tools are becoming more accessible to community history projects.
May is local history month. Organisations across the country will be celebrating the history of their area, and encouraging people to get involved in local heritage. If you are on social media, follow the hashtag #localhistory19 for updates.
Libraries and archives will be hosting loads of public events this month, from introductions to family history to heritage walks. Here are some that caught our eye:
CILIP
are offering 6 bursary places to BAME professionals, giving a full 2 day
delegate place and accommodation for the night of 3 July.
The CILIP
Conference (3-4 July, Manchester) is one of the largest and most eagerly
anticipated events in the library and information sector and brings together
around 500 professionals from across the sector to share experiences, knowledge
and expertise. The keynote speakers include Liz Jolly, Patrick Lambe, Hong-Anh
Nguyen and Kriti Sharma. The programme is being finalised but you can see an outline
of the session content at cilipconference.org.uk. Keep up to date by
following @CILIPConf19.
To submit your
application for the bursary place, please write no more than 300 words saying
what you would get out of attending the conference and how you would share what
they have learnt with others. Please send your application to events@cilip.org.ukwith the title “BAME
Bursary Application” by Friday 10 May 2019 and include the following details:
Name
Contact details
Sector
Career stage ( e.g. student, para-professional, new professional, professional, senior management)
Whether you have been to CILIP Conference before.
Any BAME
professional, at whatever stage of their career, can apply for one of these
places. We are particularly interested in hearing from people who have never
been to the CILIP Conference before, and who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to go.
Like a few other library authorities, Worcestershire has a Young Poet Laureate to encourage young aspiring poets. An annual competition takes places each year at which they are chosen. The winner is then paid to write and perform poems through the year at events.
From a conversation with Natalie, who organises it, we thought it might be a good idea to ask for a poem about the collections in The Hive, Worcester’s library and history centre. We invited the current Laureate, C.J., to come for a tour round so they could see the amazing things held in the local studies library, archives and archaeological stores. It also gave us a chance to explain what we did, the importance of the sources, and why people come to us to use us.
It’s not a new idea and others have asked for poems or songs. The band Show of Hands wrote a song for Exeter Museum’s reopening called Home to a Million Thoughts which captures the museum’s atmosphere and what it means to people. Others have got people to write poems or song too, but we’ve never had anyone to do this for us.
CJ. performing Concrete and Gold
After a while we received the final piece – Concrete and Gold. We were blown away with how C.J. had captured our essence. After talking with County Council colleagues (we were very excited wanted to tell lots of people how good it was!) we came up with the ideas of filming it so we could more easily share it. So colleagues who were more skilled at filming and edited helped when C.J. visited. This enabled us to share widely on social media, and the response has been great.
So if you have a Young (or not so young) Poet Laureate in your area why not see if they can write you a poem.
Paul Hudson Learning & Outreach Manager Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
3, 000 images from the Express & Star photo archive are now freely available online. This a great resource for those interested in daily life in the West Midlands during the 20th century. The initial digitisation concentrates on images of industry and covers the 1970s to 1990s.
The resource is the outcome of an Heritage Lottery Fund project run jointly by Midland News Association Ltd, Wolverhampton City Archives, and the University of Wolverhampton. Based in Wolverhampton, the Express & Star newspaper has been covering the region since the 1880s. The paper’s photographic collection has c. 1 million images making it a major source for social history in the West Midlands.
CILIP Local Studies Group 