RAISING AWARENESS OF SCRAN By Frances Scott Staff Development Worker Communities Department, Dundee City Council

STAFF TRAINING 18 staff trained with Sandra A further 25 staff trained in-house All library supervisors cascaded the training to staff who were unable to attend an official training session Training also delivered to adult learning workers

INTERNET AND INTRANET Promotion of SCRAN by putting links on these websites: Dundee City Council Dundee.com 25,232 hits on home page of library website last year Scran User Guide on Intranet

PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL Copies of Sandra’s presentation and ‘roller’ on CD have been made and distributed to all libraries Roller displayed on a public PC in each library to attract users’ attention Presentation used with a local history group at Broughty Ferry community library Scran posters displayed in all libraries

THE LIBRARY POST Monthly newsletter highlighting what is happening / what’s new in our libraries Started in February subscribers (not just library members!) as of May 2005 The Scran website and Scran ALW events have been advertised in the ‘Library Post’

ADULT LEARNERS’ WEEK Scran drop-in ‘taster’ sessions at many of our libraries One session particularly focusing on how Scran can help with local history research Quiz sheets used on ‘information days’ for people to try at coffee break

SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF USE Enquiries to Local History Centre – calendar of Dundee goldsmith found on Scran – visiting academic used Scran to see holdings at Dundee University on Indian jute trade Enquiry to Community Library - child’s homework project on Robert Burns

Calendar from © Dundee Central Library, Local Studies Collection / Scran Image Search: C

Weighing a bale of jute, India, c1900. © Archive Services, University of Dundee/ Scran. Image Search: C