BACK TO THE FUTURE:
Changing Times for Children’s & Schools Library Services
Friday 10th & Saturday 11th November 2023
ASCEL Future Forward (Virtual) Monday 6th November 2.30 – 3.30
Publisher Highlights (Virtual) Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th 09.15 – 12.15
Main Conference (In Person) Friday 10th & Saturday 11th November 2023
Venue: Derby Mickleover Hotel, Etwall Rd, Mickleover, Derby DE3 0XX
For information regarding the conference please contact: Annie Everall, ASCEL Conference Manager email: [email protected]
ASCEL Members can book directly
Specific Aims for this Conference:
This conference will equip leaders of Schools Library Services and Public Library Services for Children & Young People to:
- Support children and young people in engaging with and accessing library services
- Learn from other organisations as to how they listen to children and young people.
- Explore how public libraries and schools library services can listen to the children and young people in their communities and put them at the heart of our service.
- Engage libraries within the broader field of Children’s Services
General Conference Aims:
- Exploring best practice
- Understanding the current strategic landscape
- Generating innovative solutions to respond to new ways of thinking.
- Providing opportunities for networking
- Developing cross sector partnerships
Programme Topics will include (subject to speaker confirmation):
- Back to the Future for Libraries panel session
- Are libraries relevant in today’s world? Panel session
- DFE Reading Framework – opportunities and challenges for libraries and SLS
- Reading, Libraries and Me – author sessions
- Poverty Proofing the school day
- Libraries engaging Internationally through IFLA
- Trends in reading and book buying
- AI challenges and opportunities for libraries and education
- Building future partnerships with Arts Council NPO
- Learning from Our Peers workshops
- School Diversity week – Just Like Us
- Digital developments in publishing
Publishers and Reading Materials
The virtual Publisher Highlights during conference will enable delegates to see key children’s books being published in 2023. There will also be a Book Exhibition at the physical conference venue. Pre-recorded supplier highlights plus the publisher recordings will also be shown during breaks. A reading bag of key children’s titles and promotional materials will be provided for all delegates attending the conference in person.
For information regarding the conference please contact: Annie Everall, ASCEL Conference Manager email: [email protected]