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• County Council Mobile Office
• 24 July 2008
• The mobile office currently stops at five different rural locations. The office vehicle – the first of its kind in the South East – provides residents with free internet access, access to library information services, a community help point and e-learning opportunities.
• Operational Area: Learning & Skills, Libraries

• Info Trace
• 24 July 2008
• Info Trace supports local businesses by helping them find the solutions they need to develop and to perform more efficiently. This is done using specialist business databases, which are updated daily, printed resources and desk research. There is a part-time specialist Business Information Officer dedicated to this service.
• Operational Area: Learning & Skills, Libraries

• South East Library Management System
• 24 July 2008
• A consortium of 6 public library authorities formed to improve customer service and accessibility for all members libraries and provide a seamless service across authority boundaries. This will be achieved by the purchase and development of a new library management system with a single database for all partners, the optimisation and sharing of resources and exploring the opportunities for future consortia working.
• Operational Area: Learning & Skills, Libraries

• Video Conferencing Project
• 24 July 2008
• To implement a community and staff facility for the use of video conferencing facilities with a view to extending the learning, events and activities of the library service in a new way using video conferencing.
• Operational Area: Libraries

• Smarter Café Roadshow
• 06 June 2008
• The Smarter Café Roadshow was a pilot partnership project between Libraries and Heritage and Buckinghamshire Adult Learning to offer taught ICT courses to target groups in UK online centres based in three libraries around Buckinghamshire. The use of laptops gives much greater flexibility of provision than would otherwise be available. They enable learning to be offered in several locations. The partnership with Adult Learning can enable the People’s Network to offer a much more active resource to promote learning in libraries. The libraries can offer a more relaxed, accessible and familiar environment than could otherwise be offered in a conventional learning centre.
• Operational Area: Archives, E-Society, Libraries

• Headspace
• 06 June 2008
• Headspace is one of 20 ‘Book Bars’ set up in libraries and youth settings across England. It aims to be a place where young people can chill out; access their favourite books and magazines and be served by ‘Book Waiters’, who bring them a cappuccino and a book of their choice. Headspace in Folkestone was one of the first to open and is one of only two in a non-library location.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills, Libraries

• RaW at the Races
• 20 May 2008
• This event was a partnership project devised to form part of the BBC’s RaW campaign in 2007. RaW aims to enable more adults to read and write and works closely with libraries to achieve this. The Library Service was able to work with BBC South and Newbury Racecourse to reach a potential new audience of local families in a different setting.
• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Learning & Skills, Libraries

• West Sussex Past Gateway
• 12 May 2008

• West Sussex Past Gateway is a searchable web gateway for databases and information on the heritage of the county. Some fourteen partner organisations now form the West Sussex Heritage Consortium which has ownership of the website through its Project Management Group.

• Operational Area: Access and Inclusion, Archives, Collections, E-Society, Learning & Skills, Libraries, Museums

• Breathing Places, Brighton and Hove
• 12 May 2008
• This series of events is part of the BBC’s Breathing Places campaign in 2007/08. Breathing Places is a large and well-publicised programme, with the BBC as the hub of a wide-ranging partnership formed to promote awareness of nature and the environment. Libraries can be involved as partners on different levels and are also currently able to apply for funding in connection with this scheme.
• Operational Area: Learning & Skills, Libraries

• Helping those who help others
• 25 January 2008
• A reader development project run by Portsmouth Library Service with library volunteers and other library users who borrow books for other people.
• Operational Area: Libraries

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