1. Society of Chief Librarians: John
Kevin National Information Offer
Yorkshire & Humber Libraries pilot
Huddersfield Reference Library
July 2011 – April 2012
Yorkshire pilot themes:
Individualand Humber pilot
National Project Outputs: theme:
Brighton & Hove: the promotion
8 pilots looking atfinancial advice of libraries’ core role as key information, advice and guidance
the key to ensuring that more government transactions take place online is not the inaccessibility
Kensington & Chelsea: jobseeking resources
hubs
of this information but the Digital Divide itself
Kent: general to improve based on their most frequently asked questions
Online toolkit informationcustomer access to business, careers, financial, government and health
to address the lack of IT literacy skills that are preventing people from getting online
Lincolnshire:
information health advice
Manchester: jobseeking resources
Training resourcesfor alibrary staff to guideresources that support both the teaching and learning
to create a portal for range of evaluated customers through the information available
of basic IT skills model of delivery that can be rolled out nationally
Thurrock: financial advice
An evaluated
West Midlands: health advice

11. Partners: - 15 library authorities – IT delivery
- agencies such as UK Online and a local BT ‘getITtogether’ project
are very protective of their own platforms
Training: - as a basic IT resource our online resource was designed to be
simple enough to use without the need for formal staff training
Scalability: - national – regional – local
- ability to add resources and customise pages
Sustainability: - googlesite / google mail / google docs: free
- netvibes: free
- time: never enough of it

12. googlesite
url: https://sites.google.com/site/nioportaltest/
search: yorkshire and humber libraries online learning
google analytics
18th Jan – 24th April = 371 visits from 220 unique visitors
netvibes
url: www.netvibes.com/kevatref
search: yorkshire and humber library favourites
slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/Kevatref/
contact: kevatref@gmail.com