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OLIVE FOWLER
Biography:
Olive Fowler is Assistant Director
of Opening the Book. Olive has ten years' experience in the
field of reader development and has designed and delivered many
training programmes and promotions in library authorities across
the UK and abroad.
Olive is co-author, with Rachel Van Riel , of ‘Opening
the Book – finding a good read' and ‘The Reading Group Toolbox' produced
for Waterstone's in 2000. She also compiled and edited ‘Inside
Books – reader development in prisons' for the Prison Libraries Group
of the Library Association in 2001.
Title:
Introducing Frontline: An online course in
the basic theory and practice of reader-centre work for frontline
staff in the adult library.
Summary:
A chance to take a tour of a new, interactive course that
offers creative, relevant, flexible training that can be taken anywhere,
anytime.
Frontline
offers a balance of theory and practical tasks and online learning
that can be immediately applied in everyday work situations.
The starting point is readers not staff. It is a structured
and supported course that creates a web of supervisors and trainees.
Anne
Downes will present the key elements of the seven modules within
the course, and describe how it is being introduced into library
structures in England.
Frontline
is created and managed by Opening the Book for Branching Out.
Branching Out is an initiative from the Society of Chief Librarians,
funded by Arts Council England, to reach readers through public
libraries.
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