Let’s Get Lyrical - Feb 2011

Let’s Get Lyrical will be a month-long celebration of song lyrics, with over 50 events across Edinburgh and Glasgow in February.

December’s TACIT

December’s TACIT has reports from the ELISA Open Forum in November as well as information on NHS Informs and reports on visits to the War Poets Exhibition at Napier University and the Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries.

Events for December

Blackwell Book Quiz
Mon 6th December
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on.aspx

Workshop: Getting Started at NLS
Tues 7th December 10:30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

NLS Film Club - St Kilda
Tues 7th December 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

TraVerses
Mon 13th December
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on.aspx

Poetry Pamphlet Fair
Weds 15th December
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on.aspx

Storytelling Cafe: Yule Nights
Weds 15th December
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on.aspx

Callum Macdonald Poetry Pamphlet Fair
Weds 15th December 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Workshop: Beyond Google - An Introduction to Credo Reference and Oxford Reference Online
Weds 15th December 10:00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Guid Crack: Hogmanay
31st December
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on.aspx

CILIPS East AGM tonight

NLS Causewayside at 6.15pm
http://www.edinburghlibrariesagency.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/CILIPSposter.doc

TACIT for November

November's TACIT contains news on the ELISA Open Forum, CILIPS AGM and ELISA website review and also our regular column from a school librarian and a listing of forthcoming events.

National Stress Awareness Day

Today is National Stress Awareness Day

see also HSE resources on work related stress

October's issue of TACIT

This month's TACIT includes a report on New College Library and an account of a visit to the NLS Official Publications Unit as well as our regular column from a school librarian and a listing of forthcoming events.

Visit to War Poets Collection

Catherine Walker will lead a visit to the War Poets Collection at the Craiglockhart campus of Edinburgh Napier University on Tuesday 16th November 2010 at 2.30pm. Travel information for Craiglockhart can be found at http://www.napier.ac.uk/aboutus/Maps/Pages/Craiglockhart.aspx

Information about the War Poets Collection can be found at http://www2.napier.ac.uk/warpoets/index.htm

If you are interested in attending please email m.lobban@napier.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 12th November 2010.

CIIG visit to RMJM Engineering Library

The Construction Industry Informtion Group Scotland will be visiting RMJM library on Tuesday 12th October at 12.30, and then going for lunch.
Contact: Christine Macleod C.Macleod@rmjm.com to book a place.

September's TACIT

This month’s issue of TACIT has an article by CILIPS President Chris Pinder, a report on the CILIPS conference earlier this year and an announcement on the content of the forthcoming Autumn Gathering, not forgetting more from our school librarian columnist.

Events for September

Book signing and talk: 'The Greatest Game'
Thurs 2nd September 17.00 and 19.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Beginning with Children
Sat 4th September, 10.00-13.00 ; 14.00-17.00
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Scottish Storytelling Network Open Day
Sun 5th September, 12.00-17.00
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Workshop: Getting started at NLS
Mon 6th September 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Blackwell Book Quiz
Mon 6th September 18:00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=2071

Storyboxes: Maximising Successful Active Learning
Wed 8th September, 16.00-18.00
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Talk: 'How did a Scottish game conquer the world?'
Thurs 9th September 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Practical Storytelling With Children
Sat 11th September, 10.00-13.00
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Scottish Mobilemeet (Branch and Mobile Libraries Group)
Sat 11th September 09:00-15:15 Kilmarnock
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2515

School of Poets
Tues 14th September 19:00
http://www.spl.org.uk/for_poets/info_resources.html#d

Talk: 'Departures and arrivals'
Tues 14th September 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Discovering family history at NLS
Wed 15th September 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html#september

Talk: 'The Faded Map: The lost kingdoms of Scotland'
Wed 22nd September 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Workshop: Beyond Google
Tues 28th September 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html#september

Talk: 'Views of a nation'
Tues 28th September 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Edinburgh Council Libraries research

"Qualitative research (involving focus groups with Edinburgh residents) will be carried out to identify and explore the attitudes and behaviour of potential customers of the Edinburgh City Council’s library services. Focus groups have been selected to provide:
a. Information on how specific groups of people think or feel about the service;
b. Greater insight into why certain opinions are held;
c. Help in improving the communications/marketing and design of services/products;
d. A means of evaluating existing services/products; and
e. Insights for developing strategies for outreach & improvements."
Final report due on November 12th

Public Contracts Scotland

August's issue of TACIT

August’s issue of TACIT can be found here.

It includes an article on the work of the STV libraries and on a visit to Chinese academic institutions. There is also notification of the CILIPS Branch, Special Interest and Regional Groups event in Dunfermline and of the ELISA summer party at the poetry library.

OpenAthens training event – Thursday 19th August, SAC Library Edinburgh

SAC Library is hosting an OpenAthens Administrator training day on 19th August – this event is run by Eduserv and is free to current subscribers to the service.

The training day will explore how to get more from your OpenAthens service and you’ll receive hands-on training on a range of features, including:

· Administrator account management
· User account types
· Joining the UK Access Management Federation
· Shibboleth attributes
· Permission sets for resources
· Organising and reporting (statistics)
· MyAthens customisation
· Non-technical OpenAthens LA and SP information

If you would like to book a place on the course please contact dawn.mcquillan@sac.co.uk

July's issue of TACIT

The latest issue of TACIT, featuring a report on the CILIPS Annual Conference as well as Information and Knowledge Management in National Museums Scotland and our regular school librarian’s column can be found here.

Events for July

Tour of Edinburgh Telford College Construction Information
Thur 1 July 13.00 - 14.30
Laurence.O'Rourke@ed-coll.ac.uk

Workshop: Discovering family history at NLS
Mon 5 July 10.30-12.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Blackwell Book Quiz
Mon 5 July
http://www.cityofliterature.com/

Workshop: Getting started at NLS
Wed 7 July 14.30-16.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Talk: 'Tom Morris of St Andrews'
Wed 7 July 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

James Macaulay discusses Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Thur 8 July
http://www.cityofliterature.com/

Storytellers 'At Home'
Tues 13 July
http://www.cityofliterature.com/

Workshop: Beyond Google
Thur 15 July 14.00-15.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Christine De Luca - North End of Eden
Thur 15 July
http://www.cityofliterature.com/

NLS Film Club: 'Sport in Scotland'
Thur 15 July 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html


Writing Your Crime Novel
Fri 16 July
http://www.cityofliterature.com/

Talk: 'A major obsession'
Mon 19 July 18:00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Blackwell Book group
Mon 19 July
http://www.cityofliterature.com/

Inspirations at NLS: Mark Cousins
Thur 29 July 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Guid Crack
Fri 30th July
http://www.cityofliterature.com/

Job vacancy at ECA

Library Assistant (0.5 FTE)

£14,550 to £16,629 per annum (pro rata)

You will work as part of the Library team, primarily involved in the daily operation of the issue desk, reporting to the Reader Services Librarian. The issue desk is the first point of contact with library users and you will be required to provide assistance and support to users in a friendly and efficient manner. You will also contribute to other library processes and procedures as required.

Educated to higher level or equivalent with excellent customer care skills, you will be IT literate and a self-starter with strong organisational skills. You will be a self-motivator and good team player. Experience of working in an academic library and of computer based library management systems is desirable.

To apply please see www.eca.ac.uk, (‘staff’ and then ‘jobs at eca’) email jobs@eca.ac.uk or contact 0131 221 6292 (24 hours).

The closing date for applications is Friday 2nd July 2010. Interviews are expected to be held on Tuesday 27th July 2010.

Virtual Training Suite - new tutorials

Intute published a batch of updated tutorials in the Virtual Training Suite today, including two from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh:
Internet for Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering
and
Internet for Health and Safety

June issue of TACIT

... featuring news, events listings, a description of the work of the RMJM Knowledge Centre and also a new feature: 'Meet A Librarian', can be found here

Events for June

The Net Mender Exhibition
8th May-14th June
http://www.spl.org.uk/events/index.html#events

Douglas Robertson: artist-in-residence
Wed 2nd & Thur 3rd June, 11.00-17.00
http://www.spl.org.uk/events/index.html#events

Getting started at NLS
Thur 3rd June 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

New Books at the Scottish Poetry Library
Mon 7th June 18.00-19.30
http://www.spl.org.uk/events/index.html#events

Blackwell Book Quiz
Mon 7th June 18.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1916

CILIPS Annual Conference
Mon 7th - Wed 9th June GLASGOW
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/evntcalendarsummary.cfm

Discovering family history at NLS
Tues 8th June 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Nothing But The Poem
Thurs 10th June 18.00-19.30
http://www.spl.org.uk/events/index.html#events

Beyond Google
Fri 15th June 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Scotland Lore & Legend
Sun 17th June
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1979

Blackwell Book Group
Mon 21st June
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1932

Women of the Old Town
Mon 21st June 19.30
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1985

'The Place-Name Debate'
Wed 30 June 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html



Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible
12-14 July
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/eventsarchive.htm#Forthcoming_Conferences

Material Cultures 2010,
16th-18th July
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/eventsarchive.htm#Forthcoming_Conferences

ARLIS: The Next Generation

14th–16th July
The full programme will examine the future of art librarianship and will include presentations looking at the increasing use of social media, new projects concerning digital resources and collections, and artists’ increasing use of archive and library material in their work. A wide range of breakout sessions will cover topics such as securing funding, putting preservation policies into practice, and online digital resources for students. Visits to diverse Edinburgh institutions such as the Scottish Poetry Library, the Scottish Parliament and the National Library of Scotland will also be available.
http://www.arlis.org.uk

Early bird booking rate ends 1st June

“Librarians At Their Best” conference

Thursday 27 May, National Library of Scotland Causewayside Building, Salisbury Place

The conference will showcase innovation and partnership in the library community. The all day event will feature presentations from Newcastle City Library (2009 Winner – Innovation – CILIP Public Library Buildings Award), Edinburgh Reading Champion Project (2009 Finalist – Libraries Change Lives award), Napier University Library (the first university library in Scotland to achieve the Cabinet Office’s Customer Service Excellence award), and Cleo Jones (who will be presenting on the subject of international exchange programmes for librarians). Breakout sessions on partnerships for the future, libraries and communities and innovation in a digital world will also be on the agenda. Please note that there is no charge to attend the event, but that lunch will not be provided. There will be a space where you can eat your own packed lunch. There are also sandwich shops and a Tesco Metro in very close proximity to the Library. There will also be a small exhibition on the subject of library co-operation through the ages which can be viewed during the lunch break. The full programme is as follows:

09.00 – 09.15 == Arrive and mingle
09.20 – 09.25 == Welcome and agenda for the day
09.25 – 10.10 == Presentation 1: Edinburgh Reading Champion Project
10.10 – 10.55 == Presentation 2: Inspirational Exchanges
10.55 – 11.15 == Tea
11.15 – 12.00 == Breakout session 1
12.00 – 13.15 == Lunch and exhibition
13.15 – 14.00 == Presentation 3: Napier University Library
14.00 – 14.45 == Presentation 4: Newcastle City Library
14.45 – 15.00 == Tea
15.00 – 15.45 == Breakout session 2
15.45 – 16.00 == Group discussion
16.00 ======== Close

Breakout sessions:
A = Collaborations for the future – Janice McFarlane
B = Libraries in communities – Cleo Jones
C = Physical libraries in a digital world – Newcastle City Library

Bookings to be made by email to Graeme Hawley g.hawley@nls.uk

Scottish School Library Procurement News

'Procurement organisation Scotland Excel has said that local authorities in Scotland will continue to be able to source Scottish books for schools and libraries directly.' (Bookseller.com)

Job vacancies

Edinburgh University Library General Collections & Services Manager job vacancy

Heriot Watt University Librarian job vacancy

View From the West

OK, hands up – who is heartily sick of the election? Yes, thought so. By the time you read this, Thursday 6th May will probably have come and gone. Whether the outcome will be decisive in anyone’s favour is hard to tell – it’s the classic “too close to call” scenario – but whoever wins, there’s not much doubt that a general belt-tightening will be in order. How much, of course, is anyone’s guess. I have got one of those fancy gadgets that makes holes in belts – do you think I could hire it out?

Where will public and school libraries be in a year’s time? If you are to believe the reports in the papers, we’ll all be tied to one or maybe two suppliers – who will be able to give us whatever levels of customer service they feel like, knowing that we can’t take our business elsewhere. “Elsewhere” is of course, where all our money will end up – or at least south of the border – since the general consensus is that there aren’t any Scottish based suppliers who could handle such a contract. Yes, yes, CILIPS / SLIC have made some conciliatory noises about this only being a discussion document – but I’m not too sure. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a joke – but, as we all know, the problem with political jokes is that they sometimes get elected…

Not much humour around here these days – S4 pupils are muttering in corners about Standard Grades, and I’m trying to put some pressure on the S5/S6 gang by having a huge countdown notice in the Library – 8 days to highers, and counting down fast! I had a long discussion with our depute Head Boy about revision – he claimed that he had got his timetable all wrong, and had slipped from “Too early to learn this, I’ll only forget it” to “To late to cram all this in now” without a suitable period in between, when revision would actually have been of some use. It could have been me talking, all those years ago!

I did have to smile on Saturday morning, though. Driving past my local public library at 0855 I saw an amazing sight – people queuing to get in. “That’s a turn up for the books”, I thought to myself…

Yours literally
Lomax Allwood

This month's issue can be found here.

It includes a report on the work of the Edinburgh Architectural Association Library, a personal journey to Chartership, news on the Intute funding cut and an appeal for volunteers for an ELISA constitution task force.

Events for May

The Village and the Road
Sat 1st May, 10am-1pm
http://www.dyingvillages.com

Poetry Translation Centre: Mexican Poetry tour
Sat 1 May, 2pm
http://www.spl.org.uk/events/index.html

Words, Words, Words
Mon 3rd May
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1802

Blackwell Book Quiz
Mon 3rd May 18.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1854

Workshop: Discovering family history at NLS
Tues 4th May 10.00-11.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Workshop: Getting started at NLS
Wed 5th May 11.00-12.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

James Runcie: 'David Hume and the art of dying well'
Wed 5th May 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Visit to Edinburgh University Library Special Collections
Sat 8th May 14.00
http://mcs.qmuc.ac.uk/EBS/programme.htm

Chase Twichell
Wed 12th May 19.30
http://www.spl.org.uk/events/index.html

Workshop: Beyond Google
Thurs 13th May 10.00-11.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Sophie Kingshill: 'The lore of Scotland'
Tues 18th May 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Choices and challenges: youth services in libraries
Thurs 20th May 10:00-16:00 (Glasgow)
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2452

Inspirations at NLS – A L Kennedy
Wed 26th May 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Introducing Twitter as a professional development tool
Thurs 27th May 9:30-12:30 (Glasgow)
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2451

Shore Poets
Sun 30th May 19:45 to 22:15
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1751

April's edition of TACIT

The latest TACIT can be found here.

It's a bigger than usual edition with a report on the ELISA Full Committee meeting, an article on the role of libraries in education from the Deputy Convenor of the Education and Lifelong Learning Committee of the Scottish Parliament, a profile of the NHS’s Knowledge Network and another View from the West column as well as the usual news and events.

Crown Copyright switches to Creative Commons

from Information World Review

"Click-Use, the licence that for the last decade has authorised anyone to reuse government and Parliamentary information, is to be phased out by May.
It will be replaced by a Creative Commons type licence, devised by the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), which is already used on data.gov.uk."

Events for April

Electric Tales: April Fools' Day
Thurs 1st April 19.30
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1826

Stuart McHardy: New History of the Picts
Thurs 1st April 18:30pm
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1852

Dark Matter: Poems of space
Tues 6th April 19.30-21.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1868

Andrew Greig: Book Launch
Tue 6th April 18.30
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1904

Correspondence: Travel, Writing, and Literatures of Exploration, c. 1750-c. 1850
Wed 7th-Sat 10th April
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/CorrespondenceCall.htm

Blackwell Book Quiz
Mon 12th April 18.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1853

Discovering family history at NLS
Mon 12th April 14.00-15.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Getting started at NLS
Tue 13th April 14.30-16.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Panel discussion: Heinrich Schliemann
Tue 13th April 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Storytelling Cafe: Ceilidh fever
Wed 14th April 19.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1835

Dramatic developments: Scottish theatre from the '70s to the '90s
Thur 15th April 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Science Stories
Fri 16th April 14.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1837

Stories from Leith and Afar
Fri 16th April 14.00-15.30
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1893

The British Book Trade in the Second World War
Fri 16th April 13.00-14.00
http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/chb/EBHSSpring2010.htm

Beginning with Celtic Fairy and Folk Tales
Sat 17th April, 10.00-13.00
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

The Weft of the Song, the Warp of the Story
Sat 17th April, 14.00-17.00
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Words, Words, Words
Mon 19th April and 3rd May
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1802

A revolutionary composer: Etienne Nicolas Méhul. A talk based on work using scores in the Tovey Collection at the University of Edinburgh
Tues 20th April 17:30
http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/friends/events.html

Workshop: Beyond Google
Tue 20th April 14.00-15.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Poetry Surgeries
Wed 21st April 12.00-17.15
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1869

Wheelwright of the Heavens: James Ferguson FRS (1710-1778)
Thurs 22nd April
http://mcs.qmuc.ac.uk/EBS/programme.htm

Border Trouble: Literature & Balladry
Thur 22nd April 18.00-19.30
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1888

Spoken word/performance: 'A night in the Gutter'
Thur 22nd April 20.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Gerald Urwin: Within These Walls
22nd April 18.30
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1914

Tom Pow: Dying Villages Residency
Thur 22nd–Sat 24th April
http://www.spl.org.uk/events/index.html

Making the most of now: discover career opportunities in your present post
Fri 23rd April 10:00-16:00 (Glasgow)
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2448

Life Stories and Reminiscence
Sat 24th April, 10am-1pm
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Shore Poets
Sun 25th April 19:45 to 22:15
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1750

Inspirations at NLS – Janice Galloway
Tue 27th April 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Launch & Discussion : 'Impaled upon a Thistle' and 'From Caledonia to Pictland'
29th April 18.30
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1915

Guid Crack: Village and the Road
Fri 30th April 19.30-22.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1841

Job vacancy

Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe Project Worker
£20,517 to £25,168 (pro-rata) - Pay Band C

Applications are invited for a Biodiversity Heritage Library Europe Project Worker to join the Library department at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. This post is being offered as a 9 month temporary appointment.

The main duties and specific responsibilities of the role are:

• Identify potential content for inclusion in BHL Europe
• Manage digital content created for inclusion in BHL Europe
• Create and amend metadata for items submitted to BHL Europe, according to metadata scheme agreed by BHL Europe partners
• Liaise online and face to face with other BHL partners by wiki, e-mail and stated workshops/meetings to forward the creation and development of BHL Europe Portal
• Publicise the BHL Europe project nationally across the professional and amateur scientific communities
• Liaise with potential funding sources for digital content development

Applicants must possess a degree as well as a postgraduate qualification in Information Science. You will have good written and verbal skills, practical experience with digitisation projects and experience of digital content management. You will have knowledge of metadata schemes, e.g. METS; MODS; MARC, MARC XML. You will have experience using wikis and social network sites e.g. Google, e-Publishing and a good working knowledge of OCR. Experience of EU funded projects as well as having verbal communication skills in another EU language, particularly French and German is also desirable.

This post attracts generous holiday entitlement and civil service pension benefits.

An application pack, including a full job description and person specification can be obtained from Irene Morrice on 0131 248 2814 (i.morrice@rbge.org.uk). Applications should be made by way of CV and covering letter and should be sent to Irene Morrice either by e-mail or by post to the Human Resources Department, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR. Completed applications must be received no later than Thursday, 8 April 2010. Interviews will be held on Thursday, 22 April 2010.

March issue of TACIT

... can be found here.

It includes a report on the Edinburgh University Library refurbishment and a presentation to Wendy Ball, the previous editor.
You can also read reports from training courses and find out why our anonymous school librarian is sneaking around in a transit van this month.

Events for March

World Book Day
Thursday 4th March
http://www.worldbookday.com/

Panel event: 'The book that changed my life'
Thursday 4th March 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Living with Loss
Saturday 6th March 2010, 10.00am-1.00pm
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/events/events.asp

Panel event: 'The Traverse Theatre'
Monday 8th March 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Workshop: Getting started at NLS
Tuesday 9th March 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Workshop: Discovering family history at NLS
Wednesday 10th March 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Storytelling Cafe: Women of the World
Wednesday 10th March 19.00-21.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1816

Ceremony and Celebration
Saturday 13th March 2010, 10.00am-1.00pm
http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/events/events.asp

A Celebration of Poetry from Scotland and the Middle East.
Tuesday 16th March 19:00-20.45
http://www.mesp.org.uk/

An introduction to Credo Reference and Oxford Reference Online
Wednesday 17th March 18.00-19.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Across the Water: Scotland and Ireland
Wednesday 17th March 19.00-21.00
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1819

NLS Film Club: 'Health and fitness'
Thursday 18th March 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

PTEG Mentoring Workshop
Friday 19th March 09:15 - 16:15
http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2422

Edinburgh Book History Seminars
Friday 19th March
http://www.cityofliterature.com/whats-on-results.aspx?sec=5&pid=23&item=1812

Legal Issues in Web 2.0
Wednesday, 24th March 9.30-16.30
http://www.ukeig.org.uk

A Gray Play evening
Thursday 25th March 18.00
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Conference: 'Contemporary Argentina: Reading the last decade'
Friday 26th March 11.30-16.30
http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html

Fair Trade Brunch at NLS

In celebration of Fair Trade Fortnight the National Library will be hosting a free Fair Trade Brunch on Thursday 25th February 10.00-11.30am at George IV Bridge.

Poets for Haiti - Sunday 28th February

Readings from Carol Ann Duffy, Don Paterson, Alasdair Gray, Douglas Dunn, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and Sean O’Brien, Liz Lochhead, Ron Butlin and Gillian Clarke in aid of the Haiti earthquake disaster appeal.

More information

ELISA are organising a visit to Saughton Prison Library on 10th March. You need to have booked by February 26th for security reasons. There's another visit on 21st April.

contact Gilly.Dennis@edinburgh.gov.uk to book

The ELISA Full Committee will meet at 3pm on March 1st

February's issue of TACIT includes reflections on the Chartership Workshop at NLS as well as reports on a visit to Sighthill Library and a Web 2.0 course at Napier. There's also a column from a school librarian.

January's issue of TACIT includes an article on the Carry A Poem Campaign as well as reports on the CILIPS East Branch AGM, the ELISA Web and eContent Group meeting,thea Construction Industry Information Group (CIIG) Scotland visit to Waverley Court and contact details for the Edinburgh Libraries Passport scheme.


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