Last week I attended a UC&R meeting in Sheffield themed around university libraries reaching out to their local communities. The first talk, by Andrew Walsh from Huddersfield, was about the INSPIRE programme and the Huddersfield version, Welcome!. Both services help learners to identify libraries and collections which can help with their learning and Andrew described how the Welcome! programme has increased visits to the university library by external users to over 26,000 last year! We also talked about barriers for users and how these might be addressed and how important it is that all library staff are aware of what Inspire is about.

Keeping with the Dublin photos for a while yet : Italian rugby fans in Dublin (before they lost!)