Full Description
The Local Studies Toolkit is a comprehensive and practical resource to help support and inspire local studies professionals and the wider heritage sector to provide an excellent heritage service within their community
Written by members of the CILIP Local Studies Group, the toolkit covers all aspects of local studies and contains tips and advice throughout on how to structure a local studies collection and ensure an effective service. Topics covered include:
Why local studies matter;
Working with volunteers, fellow heritage professionals, crowdfunding and community archives;
Budgeting, measuring impact and emergency planning;
Marketing, social media and exhibitions;
Project management;
Copyright, cataloguing and classification;
Collection development, conservation and digital preservation;
Making the most out of local history resources such as maps, newspapers, photographs and ephemera;
Local studies in a global context.
This toolkit is the ultimate guide for experienced local studies librarians and professionals and those new to the profession seeking to develop their skills. It will also be an invaluable resource for those working in local museums, local authority archives and special collections.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Why local studies matters
Appeals to Heads of Library Services, Councillors and Local Studies Librarians
Part 2: What is a local studies librarian?
What is the role of local studies librarians & local studies para-professionals?
Continual Professional Development
Part 3: Relationships
Who uses a local studies collection?
Volunteers
Friends groups
Crowdfunding
Supporting community projects
Community archives
Co-ordinating local studies across a service
Relationships with fellow heritage, library and local government professionals
Part 4: Planning & priorities
Linking in with local authority priorities
Community engagement planning
Measuring impact
Budgeting
Emergency planning
Business continuity planning
Part 5: Creating & running large projects
Before you start
Finding out more about your target audiences
Partnerships
Financing your project
Evaluation
Part 6: Marketing & promotions
Social media
Virtual events
Apps
Exhibitions
Part 7: Copyright & Cataloguing
Copyright
Metadata, cataloguing & classification
Part 8: Resources
The Local Studies Library as a space
Collection development
Conservation
Book stock
Maps & plans
Oral history
Photographs & other visual material
Newspapers
Ephemera
Directories
Digital preservation
Archives
Subscription websites
Indexes & transcriptions
General web-based resources
Part 9: Local Studies in Scotland
Organisations
Resources
Part 10: Local Studies in a global context * The part local history plays in world history
Index
