Toolkit

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1. Introduction
2. Why local studies matters
3. What is a local studies librarian?
   1. What is the role of local studies librarians & local studies para-professionals?
   2. Continual Professional Development
4. Who uses a local studies collection?
5. Relationships
   1. Volunteers
   2. Friends groups
   3. Co-ordinating local studies across a service
   4. Community archives
   5. Supporting community projects
   6. Relationships with fellow heritage, library and local government professionals
6. Planning & priorities
   1. Linking in with LA priorities
   2. Community engagement planning
   3. Measuring impact
   4. Budgeting
   5. Emergency planning
   6. Business continuity planning
7. Creating & running large projects
   1. Before you start
   2. Finding out more about your target audiences
   3. Partnerships
   4. Financing your project
      1. Setting budgets
      2. Crowdfunding
   5. Evaluation
8. Marketing & promotions
   1. Virtual events
   2. Exhibitions
   3. Social media
9. Copyright
10. The Local Studies Library as a space
11. Resources
    1. Collections policy
    2. Book stock
    3. Maps & plans
    4. Oral history
    5. Photographs & other visual material
    6. Newspapers
    7. Ephemera
    8. Directories
    9. Digital preservation
    10. Archives
    11. Subscription websites
    12. Indexes & transcriptions
    13. General web-based resources
12. Metadata, cataloguing & classification
13. Conservation
14. Local Studies in Scotland
    1. Organisations
    2. Resources

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