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WELCOME to Inspire in the North West

Inspire in the North West covers the following areas:

Counties:   Metropolitan districts:   Non-metropolitan districts:
  • Cheshire
  • Cumbria
  • Lancashire
 
  • Bolton
  • Bury
  • Knowsley
  • Liverpool
  • Manchester
  • Oldham
  • Rochdale
  • St. Helens
  • Salford
  • Sefton
  • Stockport
  • Tameside
  • Trafford
  • Wigan
  • Wirral
 
  • Blackburn with Darwen
  • Blackpool
  • Halton
  • Warrington

Through the Steering Group the North West's established library partnerships work together to share expertise and champion INSPIRE.

The North West has a history of co-operative working and the Steering Group provides an opportunity to share expertise and develop wider regional links. As champions for INSPIRE the Steering Group acts as a catalyst for sharing best practice and co-operative working. We aim to enhance our services and build the regions successes by promoting the rich resources available to library users based in Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

We encourage all North West library and information services to join INSPIRE.

This region was one of the pilot areas for Inspire with demonstrator projects on Merseyside and in Cumbria. Reports on these pilots are available here.

As a result of the work in Cumbria, the AddLib scheme was established opening public, HE, FE and health libraries to learners across the county.

For further information on the scheme see article in MLA NW's Focus publication:
http://www.mlanorthwest.org.uk/assets/documents/10000060InFocus-Issue1.pdf

Contacts:
Name   Position   Contact Information:
Alan Welton (Chair)   Manager,
Cumbria Library Service

AddLib and SCL
  Email:
alan.welton@cumbriacc.gov.uk

Tel: 01228 607292





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