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Inspire in the North West - News and Events
15 March 2006
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Wider access to LEARN
CHESHIRE county’s public libraries, colleges and the University of Chester have joined forces with like organisations in neighbouring Halton, Warrington and Wirral in a new cooperative venture called LEARN - Libraries for Educational Access Regional Network.
From March 15th, members form any of the libraries involved will be able to use any other library in the partnership across Cheshire and the neighbouring participating areas, simply by producing an introductory letter which their home library will provide.
The participants are:
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Birkenhead Sixth Form College,
Cheshire Public Libraries,
Halton College,
Halton Public Libraries,
Macclesfield College,
Mid-Cheshire College,
Priestley College,
Reaseheath College,
South Cheshire College,
University of Chester,
Warrington Collegiate,
Warrington Public Libraries,
West Cheshire College,
Wirral Metropolitan College
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Barbara West and Karen Crook,
Public Libraries
Librarian,
Cheshire County Council |
Details of the scheme will be available in all these libraries.
Barbara West, Cheshire County Council’s Public Libraries Operations Manager said: “It’s hoped that the partnership, with the backing of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Libraries North West and Inspire England, will grow in strength as other colleges and learning institutions join.
“It’s the first step in trying to link library services and make specialist collections more accessible,” she said. “For many it will be a facility to help them add that last piece of information to their learning puzzle.”
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17 January 2006
The LEARN Partnership was established in the Cheshire, Halton, Warrington and Wirral region to foster and enhance the strength, accessibility and efficiency of library provision to provide improved access to library and information resources. The group aims to bring together all public, higher and further education and NHS libraries.
The LEARN Partnership's initial meeting was held in September 2004 to begin the process of setting criteria for a new joint library access agreement and will have a formal launch on March 1st.
If anyone would like to know more about the Partnership, please contact their chair, Barbara West - Barbara.West@cheshire.gov.uk
12 June 2005
A meeting to discuss how to progress Inspire in the region was held
in Warrington on 8 June 2005.
For further information please contact:
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