Events

• Interactive multimedia - an empowering tool for heritage
• 09 September 2008
• Creating cost-effective interactive, multimedia and web projects for museums, libraries, galleries and archives.
• Operational Area: Archives, Libraries, Museums

• Leading the way: authorities delivering improved outcomes for citizens with reading
• 10 September 2008
• The day will showcase authorities that have developed or are developing cross-directorate strategies within the National Year of Reading and will demonstrate how this approach delivers real benefits to individuals, communities and authorities.
• Operational Area: Learning & Skills, Libraries, Local Government

• The future of cultural and leisure services
• 18 September 2008
• This annual conference will explore how the sector can meet the challenges that lie ahead and promote its position in providing high quality public services responsive to the needs of communities.
• Operational Area: Archives, Libraries, Museums

• Regional Studies Association Research Network on Creative Industries and the Regions
• 24 September 2008 - 25 September 2008
• This is the first seminar in the series on relationships between places, local and regional policies and creative production. Its theme will be: Measuring and understanding the creative economy in the regions: methodological approaches and issues.
• Operational Area: Archives, Libraries, Museums

• MLA South East Partnership Day
• 25 September 2008
• MLA South East would like to invite you to join us to: celebrate the contribution museums, libraries and archives are making to the rich and vibrant culture of the South East; explore new ways of working that will follow MLA South East’s closure and introduce you to your new partners; look at the continuing MLA strategic initiatives including Renaissance, Find Your Talent, 2012 and the Cultural Olympiad, Local Government Improvement and regional strategy.
• Operational Area: Archives, Libraries, Museums

• Running the Six Book Challenge
• 01 October 2008
• The Six Book Challenge is one of a number of strategies being used nationally to engage literacy learners (a key audience for the National Year of Reading) in reading for pleasure. This course aims to tell participants about how to run the Six Book Challenge, including planning and building partnerships with other organisations, planning and running activities, acquiring stock, and evaluation and follow up monitoring.
• Operational Area: Libraries

• Raising funds from the Rich 2008
• 08 October 2008

• The annual UK conference on major donor fundraising

  Attended by 1,200 charity leaders and major donors last year, 'Raising funds from the Rich' is the largest UK event on major donor fundraising.

• Operational Area: Archives, Funding & Fundraising, Libraries, Museums

• Internet Search Techniques: Current State of the Art and the Next Five Years
• 14 October 2008
• This event is run by The International Library and Information Group of CILIP (ILIG).
• Operational Area: Libraries

• Information Services for Migrants and Refugees
• 14 October 2008
• This event is run by The International Library and Information Group of CILIP (ILIG).
• Operational Area: Libraries

• Safety Audit: Children and Vulnerable Groups
• 26 November 2008
• The day, run by the Voluntary Arts Network (VAN), aims to ensure that the children and vulnerable groups, staff and volunteers engaged in the arts through an organisation are as safe as they can be. The message is how to manage the demands of legislation to meet the particular needs of an organisation.
• Operational Area: Archives, Libraries, Museums