Brian Kelly has contributed to a book entitled Museums in a Digital Age
. This work, edited by Ross Parry and published by Routledge in December 2009, provides advice on best practice related to use of digital media in the cultural heritage sector. Together with Lawrie Phipps and Caro Howell, Brian contributed on the topic Implementing a holistic approach to e-learning accessibility which appears in Part 3: Access: ability, usability and connectivity.
Archive for the ‘Cultural Heritage’ Category
Museums in a Digital Age
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Paper on Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Shortly before Christmas 2009 Brian Kelly presented a paper Empowering Users and their Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web at the CULTURAL HERITAGE on line Conference which was held in Florence. This paper is now available from the UKOLN Web site.
CILIP Update Eyes Google Wave and Libraries
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010CILIP’s Library & Information Update blog recently mentioned “an interesting guest post on a UKOLN blog – by David Jenkins, Assistant Librarian in the Electronic Resources Development Team at Manchester Metropolitan University – about” Google Wave and libraries. The UKOLN blog Cultural Heritage had featured a post by Marieke Guy of UKOLN in which she invited David to summarise his findings regarding Google Wave usage among librarians. In his post to the CILIP Update blog, Matthew Mezey, News Editor, Library + Information Update Magazine, noted in particular David’s conclusions at the end of his summary for Cultural Heritage.
Serving Digital Citizens
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, spoke recently at the MLA/LGA Conference on modernisation of public library services entitled 1964 and all that: modernising your public library service. In the session on The Digital Future for Libraries Liz gave a short talk entitled Serving Digital Citizens: Public Libraries in the 21stC?. Slides from her talk are now available.
Empowering Users and Institutions
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Brian Kelly will present a paper entitled Empowering Users and Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web at the Cultural Heritage Online 2009 Conference which will be held in Florence over 15 – 16 December 2009.
1964 and All That: Modernising Your Public Library Service
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library and Dr Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, have been invited to speak at the MLA/LGA Conference on modernisation of public library services. The Conference will take place on 14 December 2009 at the Local Government House Conference Centre, Smith Square, London. Lynne Brindley and Liz Lyon will provide a session entitled The Digital Future for Libraries.
Series of Free Web 2.0 and Social Web Workshops
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009A one-day workshop, sponsored by the MLA, introducing Web 2.0 and the Social Web to museums, libraries and archives staff will be touring the country in the next few months. It will visit Preston, Devizes, London, Leeds and Leicester. It is free to attend but places are limited. Bookings are now open.
Exploiting the Potential of Web 2.0 and the Social Web
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/events/renaissance-east-midlands-2009/
Brian Kelly will facilitate a workshop on “Exploiting the Potential of Web 2.0 and the Social Web” on behalf of Renaissance East Midlands. The workshop which will be held at the Sir John Moore Foundation, Appleby Magna, Leicestershire on 18 March 2009.
Launch of UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage Blog
Monday, January 19th, 2009http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/
UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage blog was set up on 1 January 2009. Since the ‘soft launch’ we have published introductions from the main contributors on the blog, a post about the preservation of Web resources, a look back at UKOLN events designed for the cultural heritage sector and a guest blog post from a participant at one of UKOLN’s recent blogging workshops. The blog will provide UKOLN with an important communications channel for the cultural heritage sector, enabling us to publish articles of interest to the sector and, more importantly, to receive comments and feedback.