Leave Your Mark: The Visual Libraries Project.

A collaborative visual pilot project that examines the creativeuse of sketchbooks in public libraries.

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•Develop strong links through the library service and thecommunity promoting a greater awareness of theimportance of the library and its support servicesthrough a positive experience.•Empower community andminority groups to engage with the local libraries in anew and innovative way.•Increase use of libraries by engaging new librarymembers including those who haven't used a library intraditional ways.•Encourage and develop a more pro-active relationshipbetween the library service and service users.•Support the development of cultural activity and self expression .•Establish a database that will support and promote theimportance of sketchbooks in libraries nationally andinternationally to foster cross cultural developments andprojects. Promoting this project not as exclusiveresource but with the intention of sharing, networkingand inter-weaving with others

Aims and Anticipated Outcomes of the Project:

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Meetings and workshops involving library staff

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Introduction to the library staff to some visual diaries produced by studentsRequest for ideas for possible themes and then asked them to take ownership of a sketchbook.

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“Initial responses to the sketchbooks, by the library staff, was cautious and to some extentskeptical evidencing an immediate divided into the ‘arty’, those who were keen to give it a goand the none ‘arty’ who were reluctant to engage showing less optimism about the potential of the project.”

Organisation and Structure.

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