Interactive fiction and literary games encourage writers and readers to explore new ways of interacting with stories and narratives; developing collections; and forging collaborations with local and international library and non-library communities. Easy to use tools offer new ways to curate and tell stories beyond the printed book and the spoken word. Gary and Stella will also be offering a one-hour hands on experience in ILI Extra!

Using easily accessible online tools, Jo Wood runs a CPD podcast called Librarians with Lives (LwL). She shares her experiences, hints and tips, and celebrates the power of the podcast to bring librarians together irrespective of their sector, location and role. Jo will also be recording the podcast at ILI this year. Watch out for LwL LIVE at ILI.

Blockchain is at the peak of the hype cycle – but it has the potential to transform the exchange and stewardship of information. The National Archives ARCHANGEL project is exploring how tamper-resistant and decentralised blockchain technology might be used to ensure that digital records are verifiable, and can be trusted as authentic -- so that no individual institution could attempt to rewrite history.

Cultural activism is helping Pacific Island societies capture undocumented knowledge and has implications for cultural preservation, digital archivists, and cultural anthropology.  In the UK, the Archives Hub brings together descriptions of archives, archival resources and repositories. Reusable data relies on systems, technology, but also on humans.

By sending broken link reports to a LibAnswers dashboard the library has been able to provide quick responses to users and valuable feedback to vendors.

Established in 2005, Get it Loud in Libraries gives people the opportunity to hear great live music in their local library. The programme attracts new audiences into library spaces. Hear how librarians crowdsourced a research project about a famous music venue and created a wildly popular exhibition.

This lightning talk offers practical tips on using social media to promote and amplify events. It will be of particular interest to LIS professionals who are new to supporting events whether at a local level or as part of a professional network.

Librarians are at the forefront of delivering tools, platforms and processes to support researchers. In this session we hear about an initiative designed to facilitate a seamless user experience for creators and consumers of scientific communication and solve challenges in network security and user privacy and the use of collaborative digital research platforms. A system alone isn’t enough for digital content to become a useful part of a collection. A ‘home’ environment for content reflects the core values and activities of the organisation. This session shares practical ideas about how to support digital content, engage with new and existing users and create a hybrid collection that will underpin the core values of any organisation.

Rethinking the role of the library as the starting point for the discovery of scholarly materials led to the ‘hunch’ that patrons might appreciate a plugin in their browsers that offers context bound, ‘just in time’ and ‘just in place’ library services.

Two ambitious projects highlighting the value of wide-scale collaboration. In Denmark all public libraries and some academic libraries moved to one library system. In the UK Jisc’s NBK project wants to bring together the catalogues of more than 200 higher education and research libraries. Have these projects succeeded in improving collaboration, enhancing resource discovery, improving collection management, and more, on a national scale?

At the end of this session, UKeIG will present the Jason Farradane Award, given to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding contribution to the information profession.

Hear how a school library is thriving, despite having no printed resources, no study space and no bookshelves proving it is possible to embed a digital library habit. To promote itself to a wide range of audiences, a public library service went on the road to host roadshows, tech support sessions and more in venues ranging from hospitals to rural festivals.

A reading list solution forms part of a new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), designed to give students a big picture of all their learning activities. The project has involved extensive change management processes and has seen the library work with academic and support services colleagues across the university. Sonoma State University Library collaborated with disciplinary faculty to create a makerspace open to all university students and faculty and has taken a lead role in facilitating the maker community across 23 universities in California.

Established 15 years ago, IIPC has grown from 12 to over 50 institutions that have been actively involved in web archiving. With its mission to acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations, the IIPC has been promoting global exchange of ideas and practices through collaborative projects, transnational collections and training initiatives. Over the years the consortium has organised web archiving conferences, workshops, and has collaborated on research and development projects by sharing data and testing tools. The aim of this presentation is to give an overview of the work of the IIPC focusing primarily on its collaborative initiatives as well as outreach projects aiming to encourage researchers to use web archives in their work.

For over a decade a number of organisations in the Netherlands, including the National Library, the National Archives, the University of Groningen and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, have independently archived the .nl domain or a smaller or larger scale, with different scope, criteria and reasons for their activities. Since 2016 the Digital Heritage Network (Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed) and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision have worked on setting up collaboration between these different initiatives. The first results of this collaboration include the National Register for Archived Websites (an overview of all the websites that have been archived in the Netherlands) and two videos promoting web archiving.

The UK Web Archive (UKWA) aims to archive, preserve and give access to the UK web space. This aim is achieved through an annual domain crawl that was first established in 2013. In 2016, the fourth UK domain web crawl harvested 70 terabytes of content. This is estimated at approximately 2 billion web assets (including web pages, images, videos and documents) and 12m websites. In addition to the annual domain crawl, UKWA has been building curated special collections which date back as far as 2005. These collections reflect important aspects of British culture and events that shape society. The aim of this presentation is to highlight what UKWA does, how you can use it and how you can get involved.  

Belgium does not currently have a web archive. Without a web archive a significant portion of Belgian history will be lost forever. The aim of the PROMISE project is to (i) identify current best practices in web-archiving and apply them to the Belgian context, (ii) pilot Belgian web-archiving, (iii) pilot access (and use) of the pilot Belgian web archive for scientific research, and (iv) make recommendations for a sustainable web-archiving service for Belgium. As part of the project, an online survey was launched to help understand the requirements and needs of (potential) users of web archives. This presentation will report back on the results of the survey and outline the next steps in the project.

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Two case studies showing how libraries are using newspapers to promote their services to a wider audience. In Denmark a column in a weekly local newspaper delivers library news to 42,000 people in the community. In the USA, an award-winning daily digital newspaper fills a demand for time-sensitive information. Hear how publishing and writing for newspapers can benefit libraries of every type.

The library played a key role in developing a partnership between Glasgow Caledonian University and the African Leadership College in Mauritius - what were the challenges and opportunities? Hear how a community of scholars in Georgia was supported by a librarian, a researcher, a mediator and a content curator (one person!) using face-to-face, social media, and collaborative digital research tools. Discover how Gale is working to transform digital humanities research with Gale Digital Scholar Lab - a platform combining Gale Primary Sources with OCR Text to add even more value to a library's collection.