We are now open for your proposals for Ignite Talks and Interactive Sessions! “Encourage the unexpected” is the motto for the Next Library Conference in Berlin. For more information about the Call for Proposals, the overall themes for the conference and how to send a proposal, please check the webpage. We are eagerly awaiting your proposals which you can send until 19 January 2018!…

Keeping them hooked: An investigation into the drivers and barriers to successful volunteer use in Public Libraries (RDF18/CIS/CASSELDEN)

Project Description Volunteers have increasingly become more involved in public library delivery within the UK, such that between 2010 and 2016 a quarter of all UK library jobs disappeared, 343 libraries closed, and 15,500 volunteers were recruited (Wainwright 2016). This mixed delivery of public libraries is part of a more general…