The Public Library Quality Improvement Matrix Fund is a £500,000 fund provided by Scottish Government to help the public library service to improve its standards of provision and facilitate cooperation.” In the last five years, some of this funding has been used for national and some for local projects. SLIC agreed that £250,000 of the PLQIM Fund in 2011/12 should be to support Scotland’s Digital Future: A Strategy for Scotland.
Local Projects
£185,745 was allocated to 12 services on 16th August, as a result of a call for local projects. Outcomes: Increased digital participation, increased use of broadband, increased user satisfaction, and improved public services.
£19,600 - Cool Computing for Couthie Customers.
£11,868 – Information Mobility: smartphones and tablets.
£8,415 – Live Archive – Dundee people Bringing Dundee’s history to Life.
£20,900 – Enhancing Digital Participation: Mobile Technology Strategy.
£16,750 – Learning at The Watt.
£17,992 – IT tuition to harder to reach groups.
£26,600 – North Ayrshire Re@ds.
£6,510 - Click Shetland.
£13,250 – Mi-Library.
£6,500 – The Home Key.
£17,360 – Digital Diamonds.
In addition to these projects there will be a number of other national and shared service programmes including a Digital Participation National Project where all local authorities can bid for small funding grants for projects which help them increase digital participation, use of broadband, user satisfaction, and improved public library services. There will also be a national summer reading promotion in our libraries which will celebrate the Cultural Olympiad.
Scotland's Information
Research Collections Online
Scottish Library and Information Resources
Scottish Distributed Digital Library
Scottish Collections Network
Co-operative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland
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