Collections Trust prepares ‘Put Your Library on the Map’ campaign
January 10th, 2012 | Posted by in Uncategorized
The Collections Trust has announced ‘Put Your Library on the Map’, a campaign encouraging smartphone users to visit their local library and make use of their library services.
The campaign will encourage people to go to their library, open the ‘Find a Library’ app and click ‘Put Me on the Map’. Each click will help improve the accuracy of the library’s location on a Google map.
‘Find a Library’ is a free cross-platform application for mobiles and tablets developed by the Collections Trust with the support of the Arts Council England. It is powered by the UK Public Libraries Dataset, a new open database of public library locations around the UK. The dataset is also available for re-use from data.gov.uk.
The ‘Put Your Library on the Map’ campaign will begin in February 2012 with a national launch, followed by regional promotional activities with the support of the BBC and library organisations. A press pack and image kit will be provided to UK public libraries to help them promote the campaign to library users.
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Very annoying that when you type Libraries in the search box on Data,gov.uk you don’t get a link to the data set mentioned above. Just someone’s comment saying it would be a good idea and one of those pretty pointless lists of expenditure for the British Library.