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CILIP Scotland PodcastTaking Root: Scotland's Green Libraries Part TwoEpisode two of Taking Root: Scotland’s Green Libraries kicks off with the CILIPS Team walking the walk of environmental action, showcasing all of the different projects that we’ve played a part in supporting across the last few years. There is an accompanying Environmental Jargon sheet for this series, which you can click here to download.
Helping community climate action and understanding to grow, libraries across all parts of the sector- and country!- have carried out some incredibly innovative and important work. We start with contributions from our Green Libraries Scotland grant fund holders from 2024, and...
2024-10-0753 min
CILIP Scotland PodcastTaking Root: Scotland's Green Libraries Part OneSustainability and climate action has been taking root across libraries in Scotland for many years now and we wanted to dig a little deeper, surveying the work and projects taking place across the sector. Libraries are playing an essential role in tackling the climate crisis, and as you’ll learn in this podcast, are the inaugural recyclers. There is an accompanying Environmental Jargon sheet for this series, which you can click here to download.
In this first episode, we’ll explore the beginnings of the connection between libraries and climate action, including where Green Libraries Scotland started. Incl...
2024-10-0748 min
CILIP Scotland PodcastCILIP Scotland Podcast Episode 6: Libraries Change Lives & NES Knowledge Services- The Knowledge Network redesignThe newest episode of the CILIP Scotland Podcast brings you a reflective episode, as we explore what libraries mean to us as a complement to CILIP’s Libraries Change Lives Week, hear about NHS for Scotland’s Knowledge Network Redesign, and take a closer look at what changes might take place for library services given the change in government post-election.
CILIP Scotland Director Sean McNamara talks the audience through the new political landscape which library and information services are faced with, explaining the practical implications and what changes we might expect in the coming years...
2024-08-2129 min
CILIP Scotland PodcastCILIPS X SNPC Podcast Takeover: Reflections on entering the library and information sector as a new professionalWelcome to the very first CILIP Scotland Podcast takeover, featuring the CILIPS Students and New Professionals Community! Taking the reins in the podcast studio for the first time, Chaeli, Matthew and Filipa were keen to share with the audience their reflections on starting their professional career in the Library and Information sector post-graduation.
Defacto host for the episode Chaeli Brown is currently an Information Scientist at ThinkAnalytics. Matthew Ferrie has entered into his first role as Information Assistant at the Craiglockhart Library at Edinburgh Napier University. Both Matthew and Chaeli are Events Coordinators for the SNPC, having r...
2024-07-1027 min
CILIP Scotland PodcastScotland's Library Advocacy Story: Part TwoPart two of Scotland’s Library Advocacy Story continues on CILIP Scotland's journey to mobilise and support librarians, information professionals and the communities they serve to best advocate for their vital library services.
We began by introducing the Save Aberdeen Library Campaigners behind the fight to save six libraries and a swimming pool from closure in 2023. Laurie Anne Mackay and Hayden Lorimer began by introducing themselves and how they became involved in the campaign in Aberdeen, so go back and listen to part one if you haven’t already!
Another key character in this story is Mik...
2024-03-2240 min
CILIP Scotland PodcastScotland's Library Advocacy Story: Part OneIn 2024 alone, Scotland's public libraries have been considered low hanging fruit for cuts and closures in too many local authority budgets. It has become essential that librarians and communities are empowered and given a solid foundation to advocate for their vital and vibrant library services.
In part one of Scotland's Library Advocacy Story, the CILIP Scotland team outlined the funding landscape for Scotland's public libraries, deepening understanding of how the current funding model is proving increasingly insufficient to deliver all that libraries and their communities deserve.
Taking the incredibly powerful Save Aberdeen Libraries Campaign as...
2024-03-2233 minCILIP Scotland PodcastCILIP Scotland Podcast Episode 2: Green Libraries & REVEAL AdvocacyJoin the CILIP Scotland team, Sean, Kirsten and Leah, as we take you through the Library advocacy highlights happening across the sector in Scotland. Interviewing the people who are making the change!
We recapped and recycled content from our inspiring Green Libraries Gathering, which included hearing from the National Library of Scotland, Scottish Book Trust and Paper Boats Collective.
We also delve into the newest advocacy resource from CILIPS, which is the REVEAL: Reinforcing Ethics and Values for Effective Advocacy for Libraries toolkit, led by Dr David McMenemy. We asked Dr McMenemy all about the resource...
2023-11-0621 min
CILIP Scotland PodcastCILIP Scotland Podcast Episode 1: Jimi Mitchell, #CILIPS23 Recap & Upcoming EventsJoin the CILIP Scotland team for the first-ever CILIPS Podcast! The team (Sean, Kirsten and Leah) interview guest Jimi Mitchell from the Sir Alex Ferguson Library in their in-house podcast studio. We ask Jimi about all things new professional, his experience of the #CILIPS23 Conference and being nominated for Scotland's Library and Information Professional of the Year 2023.
Kirsten then provides listeners with a #CILIPS23 conference re-cap, sharing all of our favourite sustainable initiatives as well as delegate feedback.We round up with an events recap, sharing details of our upcoming online learnings such as: LocScot Look out...
2023-09-0823 min
Scottish Poetry Library PodcastNothing But The Poem - LGBTQ+ History Month SpecialIn this LGBTQ+ History Month special edition of Nothing But the Poem, the Scottish Poetry Library's Toni Velikova is joined by Kirsten MacQuarrie, author and Membership Officer from CILIPS Scotland, to chat about three poems by three much loved Scottish LGBTQ+ poets.
STRAWBERRIES by EDWIN MORGAN
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN by MAUD SULTER
BIOGRAPHY by JACKIE KAY
The poems were discussed at an open-to-all meetup of Friends of the Poetry Library hosted by Toni and Kirsten. An enthralling chat ensued by all accounts!
Have a look at our website to...
2023-03-0823 minScottish Poetry Library PodcastNothing But The Poem - LGBTQ+ History Month SpecialIn this LGBTQ+ History Month special edition of Nothing But the Poem, the Scottish Poetry Library's Toni Velikova is joined by Kirsten MacQuarrie, author and Membership Officer from CILIPS Scotland, to chat about three poems by three much loved Scottish LGBTQ+ poets.
STRAWBERRIES by EDWIN MORGAN
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN by MAUD SULTER
BIOGRAPHY by JACKIE KAY
The poems were discussed at an open-to-all meetup of Friends of the Poetry Library hosted by Toni and Kirsten. An enthralling chat ensued by all accounts!
Have a look at our website to...
2023-03-0823 min
TK PodcastreadWORLD EP.46 ‘พื้นที่สาธารณะ เทศะรังสรรค์ สถานที่แบ่งปัน’ แนวคิดเชื่อมโยงห้องสมุดกับการพัฒนาเมือง“พื้นที่สาธารณะดังเช่นห้องสมุดมีความสำคัญต่อชุมชนในแง่การเชื่อมโยงผู้คน การสร้างความรู้สึกเป็นเจ้าของ และการส่งเสริมการพัฒนา ห้องสมุดไม่ใช่แค่สถานที่แบ่งปันหนังสือ แต่แบ่งปันสถานที่สำหรับชุมชนด้วย พื้นที่แบ่งปันกันยิ่งมีน้อยเท่าไรก็ยิ่งทำให้โครงสร้างพื้นฐานทางสังคมอ่อนแอ และนำมาสู่การแยกตัวโดดเดี่ยว ซึ่งถือว่าเป็นมะเร็งร้ายสำหรับชุมชน”
เก็บความจากการบรรยายเรื่อง A room is not just a room: The library as shared place and why it matters to communities ในการประชุมประจำปี CILIPS Conference เมืองดันดี สก็อตแลนด์ เมื่อวันที่ 4 มิถุนายน 2019 โดยคริสเตียน ลอเออร์เซน ผู้อำนวยการห้องสมุดประชาชนรอสกิลด์ เมืองโคเปนเฮเกน ประเทศเดนมาร์ก ซึ่งเป็นคนที่สนใจในเรื่องของการพัฒนาชุมชน การสร้างความเป็นธรรมทางสังคม และการเรียนรู้ตลอดชีวิต และยังเขียนเรื่องราวต่างๆ ลงในบลอกของตัวเองชื่อ The Library Lab อย่างสม่ำเสมอ
2019-07-1859 min