Day 2 of the conference and the overall theme today could be how intentional collaboration leads to excellence for all involved.
We had a tour of the Anamed Library and then heard about BiblioPera. this is a cooperation between 12 specialist libraries in the Beyoğlu area. The collections cover different aspects of research into Turkish history and culture, art, photography and music. They are multilingual as the partner libraries include the German Archaeological Institute, Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Swedish Research Institute, American Research Institute to name a few. The great news is that BiblioPera brings all these libraries together and allows their collections to be searched from one portal.
In the afternoon we heard about some magnificent works of collaboration to bring Excellence in customer services in Sussex, the creation of a MOOC so students can develop information literacy skills in Hong Kong and encouraging the growth of the wine industry in British Columbia, Canada using the specialised skills of a University department and library.
Actions for us to bring to our library
- Let secondary school departments know about BiblioPera and add a link to this on our homepage
- Develop an excellence approach to our services using the 5 themes of
- Customer insight
- Culture of organisation
- Information and access
- Delivery
- Timelines and quality of services. and create a way to collect evidence and evaluation our performance.
- Encourage our students to participate in the MOOC Info Lit for U
- Find out more about designed engagement and how we can raise the profile of library services in our school.
- Create a policy and procedure for digitisation of our resources, including naming conventions
We visited Pera Museum in the afternoon. There was an exhibition on measurement which could be of interest to our mathematics and science departments.
