Library Camp Glasgow


#libcampgla

 

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Library Camp Glasgow is an unconference. The Twitter hashtag is #libcampgla

 

Location

The second Library Camp Glasgow took place on Saturday 8th November 2014 at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow,. 

 

Sponsors 

Library Camp Glasgow is indebted to hosts, Glasgow Life, and to sponsors SLIC, SALCTG, MMITS and CILIPS.

 

Session pitches

There were sessions on CILIP Registration, Innovative user education, Internet privacy, Advocacy, CILIPS West, Do you practice what you preach?, 23 Librarians live, and Cross-network collaboration. Two groups also toured the Mitchell Library.

 

MmITS Minute of Madness

A 60 second rant to get something library-related off your chest! The prize of a Kindle Fire, generously donated by MmITS, was won by Jennifer Higgins with her rant on gender stereotypes.

 

Prizes

As well as the prize for the best rant, there were prizes for the best home-made name badges. The winners were Karly Walters-Smith and Sharron Wilson. Annette Thain won the Library Camp Bingo competition.

 

Writeups, blog posts and media

Blog posts and photos from Library Camp Glasgow 1 can be seen in the Gallery or Event Writeups 2013 page.  Blog posts from the second Camp are on the Event Writeups 2014 page and photographs can be found at the Glasgow Library Tweetups blog.

 

Organisers

 

Anabel Marsh (anabelmarsh@googlemail.com) @AnabelMarsh

Myra Paterson (Myra.Paterson@glasgowlife.org.uk) @MyraCPaterson

Kirsten McCormick (KirstenMcCormick@glasgowlife.org.uk) @KirstenMcCorm11)

Lynn Corrigan (lynncorrigan@outlook.com) @lynncorrigan

 

Special thanks once again to Glasgow Libraries for hosting Library Camp Glasgow for the second time.