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Scottish Poetry Library
Librarian: Julie Johnstone
Assistant Librarian: Lizzie MacGregor
Director: Robyn Marsack
Learning Manager: Georgi Gill
So what does the Scottish Poetry Library DO?
WHAT DO LIBRARIANS WANT?
• What should we keep?
• What should we drop?
And…
• What can we try to do instead?
scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
For general users, but also useful for librarians:
• Online catalogue & postal borrowing
• Enquiries service (‘Lost for Words’)
Full-text poems online
Biographies & further reading
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/search-poem
Search for a single word
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/tags/all
Browse poems by subject
National Poetry Day resources online
• PDF poster of each of the 8 poems
• 1 PDF general poster
• Activities/teaching ideas for each poem
• 1 set of ideas for adult creative writing and reading groups
• Biographical information & further poems on each of the 8 poets
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/teachers/national-poetry-day-teachers
Monthly newsletter for librarians and teachers, including..
• Single author titles
• Anthologies
• Children & Young People
• Small Presses
• Classics (new editions, re-issues)
• About (biography, letters, criticism)
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/librarians/what-should-i-buy
PDF poem posters
• Tagged by theme
• 4 per month – seasonal/topical
• Extract from a poem
• Linked to full text of poem on SPL website
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn/posters
WHAT DO LIBRARIANS WANT?
From what SPL provides already:
• What should we keep?
• What should we drop?
• What can we try to do instead?
• Full-text poems online
• Biographies & further info
• Search by keyword, browse by subject
• Postal borrowing & enquiries
Monthly newsletter:
• National Poetry Day resources
• PDF poem posters
• Monthly new poetry titles
Frances Lincoln Books, 2 October 2014
