2025 Annual Seminar - Resilience in an Age of Uncertainty
Provisional Programme
Day 1 – Tuesday 10 June | |
| 09.00 | Registration, networking, and refreshments |
| 10.00 | Welcome from Ed Jewell, Libraries Connected President |
| 10.20 | Ian Harvey, Head of Institute of Place Management, based at The Manchester Metropolitan University - High Street Task Force, Institute of Place Management and libraries |
| 11.00 | Sponsor’s Flash Film |
| 11.05 | Workshops (see below) |
| 12.15 | Lunch break |
| 13.25 | Sponsor’s Flash Film |
| 13.30 | Amanda Naylor, Chief Executive Officer, Volunteering Matters - Building Resilient Volunteer Programmes |
| 14.10 | Sponsor’s Flash Film |
| 14.15 | Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Author, Screenwriter, and Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2024-2026 - Reading Rights: Libraries supporting the Children’s Laureate’s mission to ensure every child has access to books’ |
| 14.55 | Sponsor’s Flash Film |
| 15.00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 15.20 | Workshops (see below) |
| 16.30 | Sponsors’ reception |
| 19.00 | Seminar Dinner |
| 21:00 | Awards Ceremony |
Day 2 – Wednesday 11 June | |
| 09.00 | Registration |
| 09:30 | Welcome & Libraries Connected update, Isobel Hunter, CEO Libraries Connected |
| 09.45 | Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Executive Director, Mid-Hudson Library System - Resilience, Sustainability, and the Future of Public Libraries |
| 10:25 | Sponsor’s Flash Film |
| 10.30 | Ignite Talks: Workforce: recruitment, development, and retention |
| 11.10 | Sponsor’s Flash Film |
| 11.15 | Tea and coffee break |
| 11.35 | Sponsor’s Flash Film |
| 11.40 | Panel Session: Community cohesion: engagement, empathy, disconnection
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| 12.50 | Black British Ballet Showcase - Kelly Saini Badwal, Head of Cultural Services, Sutton Libraries |
| 13.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.10 | Speaker TBC |
| 14.30 | In conversation with Cllr Liz Green, Chair of the LGA Culture, Tourism and Sport board - Challenges in Local Government and Priorities for the Future |
| 15.10 | Closing remarks from Ed Jewell, Libraries Connected President |
Seminar 2025 - Workshops
The following breakout sessions will be taking place on Tuesday 10 June at 11.05 and repeated at 15.20.
Black British Ballet and Libraries
Led by Kelly Saini Badwal, Head of Cultural Services, London Borough of Sutton, Viktoria Nourpeissova, Culture and Library Development Officer, Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure, Marsha Lowe and Sandie Lowe, Directors, Oxygen Arts CIC.
Seminar Speakers 2025
This year our seminar programme will explore the topic of ‘resilience’ thinking about how we can build robust public services and workforces to support community cohesion and social reform.
This year we are delighted to be joined by an amazing line up of speakers from the sector and beyond.
We will be joined by:
Seminar Sponsors 2025
Many thanks to all the companies that have sponsored this year’s seminar. If you are attending the event, please take the time to visit the Sponsors' Showcase in The Grange.
