Scottish Library & Information
Council
Hazel Lauder
Network Officer
www.slainte.org.uk
Scottish Library & Information
Council
Established 1991 by the Library and Information
Services community
Represents interests of all sectors
Local authorities, higher education, further
education, NHS Trust library services, prisons
To advise the First Minister on library and
information matters
To promote and monitor standards for library and
information services in Scotland
To provide grant aid for library and information pilot
projects
The People’s Network
Public library networking – free
access to the Internet and ICT
New Opportunities Fund
CALL Programme (Community Access
to Lifelong Learning)
Infrastructure £11.9 m
Training £2.7 m
Content/Digitisation £50m UK-wide
Aims of the People’s Network
Enable people to prosper in the
information society
Be an integrated component of the
education system
Be open and accessible to all
Be the information gatekeeper
Offer opportunity to all citizens to
be involved in the democratic
process
Support for the People’s Network
Advice and support
Visited all 32 authorities
Liaise with New Opportunities Fund
and Resource
Identify training needs and deliver
training
Access issues – adaptive technology
Best practice
Quality Information Resources
New Opportunities Fund
2 year subscriptions
Equity of access to information
Citizens access the same resources at any
library
4 areas: general information
business information
Newspapers
Scottish Culture
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
£300,000 gift to enhance learning
opportunities in areas of significant
social deprivation
matched by Scottish Executive
funding
SLIC manage the project
14 successful bids
Different types of areas benefited –
big cities and rural areas
Gates Projects
Clackmannanshire Inverclyde
Dundee North Ayrshire
East Ayrshire North Lanarkshire
East Renfrewshire Renfrewshire
Edinburgh South Ayrshire
Fife South Lanarkshire
Glasgow West
Dunbartonshire
Gates
Working with community groups in libraries
Providing tutorial support
Older people – reminiscence
Young people - develop ICT skills
Laptop and PC lending
Community web sites
Learning portal
Community Learning partners
Disabled groups
Chinese communities
Information Handling Skills
SLIC, learndirect Scotland, Scottish
Enterprise Glasgow, Scottish Further
Education Unit
Address skills gap of information rich and
information poor
Aimed at post 16 year olds
Planning, searching, retrieval, evaluation
and using information
23 learning bites
5 senarios