participant driven events: clic community experience

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Participant driven events: CLIC community experience

Karen F. Pierce (Cardiff University)

Kristine Chapman (National Museum Wales)

Gemma Southgate (Cardiff University)

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CLIC Members

Cardiff Metropolitan University

Cardiff Public Libraries

Cardiff University

Cardiff & Vale College

National Assembly of Wales

National Museum Wales

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

University of South Wales

Welsh Government

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CLIC members

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Previous events held

• Customer care• Floor-walking with

confidence• Library tours• Social Media / Web

2.0• Marketing your library• Information literacy

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Previous events held (2)

• Library tours for Love your Libraries Day

• Introduction to copyright• Presentation skills• Mobile technology & apps

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Social media presence

@CLICLibraries

http://cliclibraries.blogspot.co.uk

CLIC Facebook account

http://www.cliclibraries.co.uk/

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Participant driven events

• Feedback Forms

• Survey in 2012

And now…

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Group sessions

Library camps Gemma

Teachmeets

Karen

Twitter

Kristine

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Learning from experience

Cardiff Teachmeet 2013

Library Camp Wales 2014

Twitter use at CLIC events and beyond

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Teachmeets – pre event

• Organise in advance to allow it to be participant driven

• Pitching – via email or a wiki rather than on the day

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Teachmeets – on the day

• Guiding event but participant driven

• Informal sessions

• Moving around

• Voting for best presentation

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Library camps – pre event

• Team collaboration

• More work than you might expect!

• Finding your participants

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Library camps – on the day

• Team collaboration/being ready to fill the gaps

• Pitching

• Guiding but participant driven

• Principle of ‘open space’ events

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Icebreakers & prizes

• Human bingo

• Speed networking

• Design your own badge

• Best cake

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Twitter – pre event

• Gathering participants

• Advertising / creating a buzz

• Starting to form a community

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Twitter – on the day

• Sharing sessions with non participants

• Interactive within and without

• Temporary community & new contacts

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Twitter – post event

• Networking post event

• Gathering tweets (e.g. Storify)

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Tips, suggestions, questions

Photo credits: thanks to Sarah Barker, Kristine Chapman, Karen Pierce, Gemma Southgate

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Contact details

Karen F. Pierce - @Darklecat

PierceKF@Cardiff.ac.uk

Kristine Chapman - @KrisWJ

Kristine.Chapman@Museumwales.ac.uk

Gemma Southgate – @Gemma_DS

SouthgateGD1@Cardiff.ac.uk