Day 1 - Tuesday 4 June

09.00 – 10.00

Registration, networking, and refreshments

10.00 – 10.15

Welcome from Ayub Khan, Libraries Connected President and Head of Libraries, Heritage & Culture and Registration Service, Warwickshire County Council

10.15 – 10.45

Presidential Handover from Ayub Khan to Ed Jewell, Chief Librarian, Jersey.

10.45 – 11.30

The Impact of arts and leisure on health – Professor Daisy Fancourt

Chaired by Anita Luby Head of Culture & Libraries Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure and Chair of London Libraries

11.30 – 11.35

Sponsor’s Flash Film

11.35 – 12.45

Workshop sessions:

• Library Advocacy: Raising the Profile and Priority of Your Library Service
• The Power of Data and Partnerships: A Call to Action
• Library Services Working with Volunteers to Support Communities and Build Social Capital
• Tackling Health Inequalities: A New Reading Well Community Champions Model
• Co-location: creating harmonious shared spaces
• Responding and Mitigating Impact of Disruptive Behaviour in Libraries

More details on page 5

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch break

14.00 – 14:05

Sponsor’s Flash Film

14.05 – 14.50

Heritage, Arts and Wellbeing: the challenge for libraries. Findings from ten years of research of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing - Ingrid Abreu Scherer, former Senior Civil Society Lead at What Works Wellbeing

Chaired by Russell Allen, Head of Libraries & Heritage, West Sussex County Council Library Service

14.50 – 14.55

Sponsor’s Flash Film

14.55 – 15.15

Tea and coffee break

15.15 – 16.25

Workshop sessions (see above) More details on page 5

16.30 – 17.30

Sponsors’ reception

19.00

Seminar Dinner

21:00

Awards Ceremony hosted by Siân Jones

Day 2 – Wednesday 5 June

9.00 – 9.30

Registration

09:30 – 09.45

Welcome to day two & Libraries Connected update from Isobel Hunter, CEO Libraries Connected

09.45 – 10.30

Diego Gracia, Head of the International Cooperation Service at the Spanish Ministry of Culture

Chaired by Ayub Khan Libraries Connected Past President and Head of Libraries, Heritage & Culture and Registration Service, Warwickshire County Council

10:30 – 10.35

Sponsor’s Flash Film

10.35 – 11.15

Ignite Talks: Working together: examples of co-production and/or co-location working well.

1. Community History Project - Claire Pickering, Wakefield Libraries
2. Creative Expressions in Libraries: Co-creating with local communities - Nicola Levin, Leicestershire
3. Palmer Park Library, Reading Council and Reading College Coproducing a Space for Life Skills - Simon Smith, Reading Libraries
4. Memory Labs - Gillian Staples, Westminster Libraries & Archives
5. Study Happy: a shared initiative to support educational study and wellbeing - Stephanie Jones, Worcestershire Libraries
6. Building Businesses, Generating Growth - Jonathan Ebbs, Manchester Libraries

Chaired by Kelly Saini Badwal, Head of Cultural Services London Borough of Sutton

11.15 – 11.20

Sponsor’s Flash Film

11.20 – 11.45

Tea and coffee break

11.45 – 11.50

Sponsor’s Flash Film

11.50 – 13.00

Panel Session: AI and information literacy

• Sital Mistry-Lee, Associate Director Digital Inclusion Delivery, The Good Things Foundation
• Jaselle Edward-Gill, Program Associate, Mozilla Foundation
• Emily Macaulay, Head of Delivery and Operations, CONNECTED BY DATA

Chaired Isobel Hunter, CEO Libraries Connected

13.00 – 13.05

Sponsor’s Flash Film

13.05 – 14.05

Lunch break

14.05 – 14:25

Navigating Health Information: Developing and empowering regional Health Ambassadors – Sarah Mears, Programme Manager, Libraries Connected

Chaired by Ed Jewell, Libraries Connected President and Chief Librarian, Jersey

14:25 - 15:10

The Community-centred Library - Cormac Russell, Founding Director of Nurture Development –

Chaired by Ed Jewell, Libraries Connected President and Chief Librarian, Jersey

15.10 – 15.30

Closing remarks from Ed Jewell, Libraries Connected President and Chief Librarian, Jersey