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Carnegie Library Lab

Archived Archives and artefacts Arts, culture and heritage organisational development Visual arts and media Antrim & Newtownabbey Ards & North Down Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Belfast City Causeway Coast and Glens Derry City and Strabane England Fermanagh and Omagh Great Britain Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland Scotland Wales Medium (up to £60,000) Small (up to £10,000)

Overview

They’re looking for applications from individual library staff working in early and mid-management roles across the UK and Ireland. Successful applicants will work with us as Carnegie Partners for 18 months (May 2016-October 2017).

Carnegie Library Lab offers participants:

  • Project funding: £5000-£15,000 to help develop and implement innovative projects in your public library or library service.
  • Online learning programme: An online modular programme to support your skills development. Facilitated by an experienced a learning guide, topics covered include innovation, leadership, managing change and transition, and power and hierarchy.
  • Mentoring: You will have a personal mentor to assist with project management and personal development.
  • A network: There will be communication and networking opportunities for participants via online platforms and a small number of face-to-face meetings. We aim to foster the development of a cohort of innovators that can share ideas and inspire one another.
  • Evaluation: An external evaluation of the projects to help participants to identify successes, challenges and how to take their work forward; and to enable the Trust to share learning and experience from supported projects with policy makers, practitioners and funders.

They hope that Carnegie Partners will be onward champions for libraries, leadership, innovation and share their learning more widely.