broadening your skills: the bexley public library experience
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Broadening Your Skills by Ann Dovovan and Rachel Edwards was presented at the New Professionals Conference 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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Broadening your skills: The Bexley public library
experience
Ann Donovan and Rachel Edwards
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The Golden Thread
Bexley’s Community Strategy 2008-2018
Corporate Plan
Annual Plan
Service Plan for Libraries
Librarian’s Work Plan
Appraisals process
Ann’s project
Example
Develop services for children and young people
Promote and encourage use of libraries
Improve children’s reading skills
Promote the development of reading skills for children
Promote the development of reading skills for children
Deliver a programme of activities for children and young people
Co-ordinator of children’s Chatterbooks group
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From invisible to visible Know the key aims which drive
forward your organisation
Prove your own value
Link personal aims to corporate aims
Validate your role
Add value!
This photo of John Austin, local MP, at one of Bexley’s Book Crawl certificate presentations appeared on the House of Commons
website.
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Book Crawl and Book Ahead
Book Crawl launch with children’s entertainer Dizzy Lolly Presentation of Book Ahead
workshop certificates
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Book Ahead and Book Crawl
Project, event, budget and staff management
Marketing
Negotiating
Resource management
Training
Partnership working with graphics department
Evaluating and analysing data
Report writing
Key skills gained from projects:
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Private Peaceful
Rose Bruford students performing Private Peaceful at Central Library
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Private PeacefulKey skills gained from project:
Project planning and management
Budget management: event invoicing, particularly in acquiring sale or return books through publishers
Communication skills and partnership working: organising frontline staff for promotion, and during the event, liaising with performers and publishers
Leadership
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Living Libraries
Pictures provided courtesy of The Human Library website
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Living Libraries Insight and practical experience of higher level strategic planning
Negotiating at management level
Proposal writing and research
Creating opportunities for change
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Chatterbooks
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ChatterbooksKey skills developed from this project:
Event, project, staff and budget management
Communication skills
IT skills through setting up central online resource
Planning and delivering training to frontline staff
Partnership working with authors and publishers
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Well Read
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Well ReadKey skills developed from this project:
Journalist and interview skills
Editing and proof reading
Team and partnership working
Project planning and development
Budget management
Innovation and creativity
Chatterbooks Well Read will feature a personal message from Jacqueline Wilson
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Bex-L
Visit our website at:
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Bex-LKey skills developed from involvement in Bex-L project:
IT literacy
Self-reliant learning
Written communication skills
Knowledge management
Access to online resources
Wider professional awareness of national initiatives
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Stock and North Heath Library layout
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Stock and North Heath Library LayoutKey skills developed from these projects:
Practical knowledge of stock layouts and stock promotion
Project planning to fit stock layout changes into building and refurbishment work.
Information resource management
Statistical analysis and implementation
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Summer Reading Challenge
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Opportunities for advocacy: new libraries, Daleks, celebrities and more!
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Some of our more unusual opportunities!
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And finally…
If you only take one thing from this presentation…
Take a desire to find out more about the key aims of your organisation and the
opportunities they can offer you to develop your skills!
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Broadening your skills: The Bexley public library
experience
Ann Donovan and Rachel Edwards