Derbyshire Libraries

There was a lack of equality of access to computers within our society and the amount of people using libraries was falling. – From CIPFA 1999/2000, Lancashire's visitor figures were 6,405,100.  It was still falling. Figure for 2001/02 was 5,960,600 which was the last year before this project established. The government wanted to increase access, the libraries were seen as an appropriate vehicle.

Each library bid for lottery money to support the introduction of IT. The New Opportunities Fund had some definitive outcomes in terms of implementation of IT (computers in libraries), implementation of the people’s network (access to computers and the internet for all) and implementation of training for librarians to enable them to support members of the public through their use of IT.

In this case study we will concentrate on two courses that we developed to support the implementation of The Peoples Network: Net Navigator and Educator.

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