Military Libraries Division - Open Community

Hello,

I hope you are well.

I would like to invite you to the webinar: "Enabling Staff Skill Building - Lessons Learned from 10 years of Delivering the British Library Digital Scholarship Training Programme," Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST.

This event is hosted by the Data Community and the Military Libraries Community.

Registration is at the following: https://www.pathlms.com/sla/courses/40708/webinars/32596

This year the British Library's Digital Research Team is celebrating a decade of delivering their bespoke digital scholarship and data skills training programme to staff. Covering topics such as cleaning up data, wikidata and machine learning in cultural heritage, the training programme provides opportunities for staff to build knowledge and gain hands-on experience with emerging technologies relevant to library work. Join Nora as she reflects on how it came to be, some of the highlights and wonderful staff achievements that have arisen from it, and useful insights the team has gleaned over the decade on how staff digital transformations can be sustainably supported for the long term. Her talk will cover topics such as:

• Rethinking how we define skills needs and acquisition for sustainable digital transformation
• Looking at different ways of learning, and sharing some of our favourite go-to learning resources for beginners
• Getting the right support and buy-in from leadership to make space for skills development
• Building and sustaining learning communities in an organisation

Nora McGregor is the British Library's Digital Curator in the Digital Research Team. She holds a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science and has extensive experience in design and delivery of digital skill training at a national cultural heritage institution scale, management of major digital/digitization projects, and exhibition curation.

As part of the Library's Digital Scholarship team, her work centres on digital scholarship skill development for staff. Since its inception in 2012, she has managed the design and delivery of the Library's unique and ground-breaking Digital Scholarship Training Programme which prepares staff for the computational turn in humanities research.

Sincerely,

Travis