ELIZABETH MELROSE

Biography:  Elizabeth Anne Melrose, MA (Hons), Dip.Lib (Sheffield), MCLIP Project Officer: Local Studies and Information North Yorkshire County Council. Library and Information Services

Member of UK CILIP Council representing the CILIP Local Studies Group National Chairman, UK and Ireland NEWSPLAN Committee member of IFLA Genealogy and Local History Section and editor of the Section Newsletter Contributor to IFLA 2002/2003, to professional journals and to: Dewe, M.(ed): Local Studies Collections: a Manual 1991, Dewe, M.(ed): Local Studies Collection Management 2002

Title: It's not ALL over till the chairs are stacked...the press, promotion and local studies

Summary: Local studies librarians do not need convincing that the imaginative promotion of their collections can provide a unique link between libraries and their local communities. But how to get your work into the local news and keep it there? Your innovative local studies events need publicity to attract the public, journalists need to supply original scripts to fill their columns or the airwaves - a good working relationship with the local media makes elementary sense.