BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:928@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230614T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230614T153000 DTSTAMP:20260929T074654Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/virtual-annual-conference-2023/ SUMMARY:Virtual Annual Conference 2023 DESCRIPTION:Sustainability and kindness\n \;\n\nRegistration for this e vent has now closed - please contact cpd25@london.ac.uk with any queries.\ n\n \;\n\nThe M25 Consortium’s 2023 virtual conference took place on Wednesday 14th June. Recordings of the presentations can be found on the Virtual Learning and Development page of our Members' area.\n\nThe confere nce theme was ‘Sustainability and kindness’ and considered the broad a nd often connected themes of environmental sustainability and kindness – both to each other and to the environment we all depend on. What role can M25 libraries play in supporting both institutional and international sus tainability goals? How can the collective actions of individual users and library staff deliver positive benefits for the environment?  What succes sful sustainability stories can already be told about M25 Consortium libra ries\, and what role did a supportive\, kind culture play? This event aime d to provide an opportunity to share experiences\, initiatives and learnin g. On the basis that the smallest changes can ultimately have a massive cu mulative effect on the global challenge of environmental sustainability\, all initiatives are of interest.\n\nProgramme:\n\n10.00    Welcome and opening remarks\, Stuart Hunt\, M25 Consortium Chair\n\n10.15    Keynot e: 'The Green Libraries Partnership - working together for people and plan et'\, Kirsten MacQuarrie &\; Yvonne Morris\, CILIP\n\n10.45    Q& \;A\n\n11.00    Break\n\n11.15    Keynote: 'Sustainability and Wellb eing: From beehives to building fabric'\, Rachel Ward\, Environmental Sust ainability Manager\, Royal Veterinary College\n\n11.45    Q&\;A\n\n1 2.00    ‘Sustainability and kindness\; our journey to Bedford Falls ’ - Sarah Simpson &\; James Concannon\, University of West London\n\n 12.20    Q&\;A\n\n12.30    Break\n\n13.30    ‘Embedding sust ainability and wellbeing at the School of Pharmacy’ - Abigail Heath & \; Diana Ivanovic\, UCL\n\n13.50    Q&\;A\n\n14.00    ‘Staff CP D and green initiative schemes’ -  Maria Vardaki &\; Sigrun Wagner\, Royal Holloway\n\n14.20    Q&\;A\n\n14.30    Diversity Task and Finish Group update - Cliff Van Dort\, The National Archives &\; Erika Delbecque\, UCL\n\n14.40    Curator and Exhibitions Network update - Lei la Kassir\, University of London\n\n14.50    Mentoring Group update - A ndrew Preater\, Goldsmiths\, University of London\n\n15.00    Summary - Helen Rimmer\, University of Westminster\n\n15.20    Closing remarks\n \nSpeaker biographies:\n\nKirsten MacQuarrie is a writer and Membership Of ficer for CILIP Scotland. She leads on CILIPSGoGreen\, their event series and resource collection dedicated to sustainability in Scotland's librari es\, and is moderator of the Green Libraries Network. Kirsten also runs W INspiration\, a programme of events\, calls-to-action\, collaborative acti vities and recommended readings to celebrate women and champion feminist v alues within the libraries and information sector.\n\nYvonne Morris is a C hartered Librarian and Projects and Programmes Manager for CILIP. She is c urrently project managing the Green Libraries Programme\, a multiyear rese arch and development Programme to establish a Green Libraries Partnership to help public libraries in England engage with the Green agenda. Yvonne i s also overseeing a comprehensive review and revision of guidance on the m anagement of controversial material in public libraries\, originally publi shed by the Museums\, Libraries and Archives Council in 2008.\n\nRachel Wa rd is the Environmental Sustainability Manager for the Royal Vet College w orking on a wide range of projects from solar panels to installing milk ve nding machines. She has worked in sustainability for around 25 years in bo th private and public sectors.\n\nSarah Simpson is subject librarian for t he Claude Littner Business school\, University of West London. Sarah has h ad a varied career in Education and a long term interest in Sustainability issues. Sarah chairs The University of West London’s Library sustainabi lity group\n\nJames Concannon is the subject librarian for two schools at the University of West London\, Hospitality and Tourism and Biomedical Sc iences.   He represents the Library at UWL's Environmental Review Boar d as well as Unison at the University's Environmental Operations Group and has worked closely with these committees for many years. As well as Environmental interests\, James is deeply committed to animal welfare and works for an animal welfare charity as a in his spare time as a volunteer. \n\nAbigail Heath started her role as UCL School of Pharmacy Library Manag er in March 2022. Previously she worked as a subject librarian at both Uni versity of Kent and University of Plymouth.  In her current role she is r esponsible for the strategic oversight of the library\, collection develop ment and customer service. She is interested in user experience and is inv olved in the library’s communication campaign group and subject guide gr oup.\n\nDiana Ivanovic has worked at the UCL School of Pharmacy since 2016 and is the Library’s Green Champion. She has also worked in public libr aries for nearly 20 years.\n\nSigrun M. Wagner is Head of Department for S trategy\, International Business and Entrepreneurship in the School of Bus iness and Management at Royal Holloway\, University of London. She helped develop Royal Holloway’s environmental strategy. In 2020\, she published a textbook on environmental sustainability for businesses. In 2021 she i ntroduced Carbon Literacy Training to Royal Holloway with colleagues in d rama. Since then over 200 staff academic and professional services) and st udents (UG and PG) across the institution have taken the training\, with o ver 120 learners certified as carbon literate.\n\nMaria Vardaki is the Adm inistration Manager at the Library\, Learning Support and Culture departme nt\, and a doctoral candidate at the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway\, University of London. She has worked at the library for t he last 9 years and held various professional services roles within Higher Education. She is also the Health and Safety Coordinator for the departme nt and has joined two Business Continuity Task and Finish Groups across th e M25 Consortium\, in the past. She has acquired the Carbon Literacy Trai ning (CLT) certificate in January 2023 and assisted in facilitating the C LT at Royal Holloway in May 2023\, organised by Prof Sigrun M. Wagner.\n\n Posters:\n\nCharlotte Dormer \nAcademic Liaison Librarian/Learning Hub Ma nager\, University of Reading\n\nView poster here\n\nThis poster details a collaborative project between the Learning Hub (part of the University o f Reading Library) and other departments of the university\, funded by the John Sykes Foundation. The Multilingual Storytelling project took multili ngual Student volunteers into local nursery school settings to read to gro ups of children in both English and other community languages\, mitigating loss of language rich environments caused by the pandemic and helping to expose children to other languages even as monolingual speakers.\n\n \ ;\n\nSponsors\n\nWith thanks to our Bronze Sponsor Browns Books\n\n\n\n&nb sp\;\n\nWith thanks to our Bronze Sponsor OCLC\n\n\n\n \;\nCost of att endance:\nM25 Member Libraries:\n\n One free place (normally for the M25 Representative) as the standard benefit of membership - registration still required\n Additional places £35\n\nNon-M25 Members: £65\n\nGroup dis count: 3 or more paying delegates will receive a £5 discount per person i f they book as a group e.g. 3 or more members would receive a delegate rat e of £30pp\, non-members £60pp. Please fill out one form per person and add a note to the form in the PO number box to state 'group booking'. Plea se also email cpd25@london.ac.uk with the names of the group members so we can identify you when we receive your booking forms. Any queries about gr oup booking should be sent to cpd25@london.ac.uk. Group discount does not apply to member representatives using their free place and students.\n\nSt udent rate: £10 - if you're studying and working at an M25 library please use the member registration form and write 'student'\, as well as your jo b title\, in the designated box. If you're a student and not employed by a n M25 member library please use the non-member form and write  'student' in the designated job title box.\n\nConference Bursaries: Two bursaries su pporting free attendance at the conference are available. If you're a staf f member in an M25 library please click here to view the Staff Development Award Scheme.\n\nCancellation policy: Cancellation is free until 23:59 on 7th June 2023. Cancellations after this date will be charged 50%. No-show s on the day will be charged 100%.\n\n \;\n\nRegistration for this eve nt has now closed - please contact cpd25@london.ac.uk with any queries CATEGORIES:M25 Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR