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Conference 2006 Inspire's national conference, Inspire, Celebrate, Challenge, Create was held British Library Conference Centre, London on Tuesday 25 April. The conference, drew an audience of over 170 people from all library sectors as well as representation from the Adult Education and Lifelong Learning community. The presentations looked at issues of access to libraries and learning from a very wide range of viewpoints. Chris Batt, Chief Executive of the MLA Partnership, encouraged us to focus on the needs of the learner and invited the audience to “Be inspired by Inspire”. John Stone, newly appointed Chief Executive of the Learning Support Network, spoke about the transformation of e-learning and Phil Hope, MP, in a pre-recorded speech, underlined the key part that libraries can play in “finding new ways to get people involved in learning, focusing specifically on local need and making better use of the resources already in place.” There are links from the Programme to all the presentations from the conference and to the speakers' biographies. Comments from our audience: “Excellent conference, I got a lot out of it” “By the end of the day I felt that I'd been given a good perspective of access in its broadest sense” “… a very informative and enjoyable day, … delighted to see so many people from varying libraries present” “Very useful to hear other people's experiences and raise the whole discussion from local issues to national ones.” “As a non-member of Inspire, I learnt a lot and it has prompted me to find out more about this initiative. Many thanks for an enjoyable and useful day”
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