Highland YQSA Award Winners 2012
The following young people received a YQSA this year because of their contribution, in a voluntary capacity, within their community
They attended a local Young Quality Scot event on 15th and 16th February at Fairburn Activity Centre, near Dingwall, where they meet the other recipients of Young Quality Scot Awards in Highland, and took part in some interactive training activities.
1.Evangeline Elizabeth & Anne Ward-Sandham - Volunteer at the local brownies
2.Sophie Clark - Volunteering to coach at the after school shinty
3. Niall McCulloch - Member of Nairn Youth Forum and active on local
issue groups plus SYP
4. Amy Robertson - Member of the Highland Facilitator Team; a small environmental group based in Ardersier
5. Andrew Henderson - Coaching the primary schools in Shinty,
Highland Youth Voice (XEC for Sutherland), Sutherland Youth Forum (Vice Chairperson), Sutherland Teen Action Group (STAG) (Chairperson) and Young Enterprise UK finalist
6. Paul Davidson - Lunch time activities 3 times a week
7. Rhoda Tippett - Raising awareness of domestic abuse
8. Nicola Stevenson - Highland Youth Voice member and Skye and Lochalsh Youth Forum member and campaign project leader. School pupil council. Highland dancing - help younger
9. Lily Confield - Raising awareness and funds for the early diagnosis and support of children and families suffering from cancer
High Life Highland delivers community learning and leisure services including library and information services on behalf of The Highland Council.
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The excellence of the Highland Council’s Library service in implementing new technology has won national recognition.
Highland Libraries has become the first Library Service in Scotland to receive accreditation by the E4libraries project. The independent review panel recognised the Service’s proven success in using information technology to streamline the ordering process, source catalogue records, and introduce self-service facilities.
The accreditation scheme enables libraries to demonstrate their expertise in the area of systems and library technology and their successes in implementing beneficial technologies which have improved services while reducing costs.
Highland Libraries is one of 25 public and academic libraries across the UK who have so far won recognition.
Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), in collaboration with OCLC, and local authorities in Scotland are delighted to offer a new online informatiom service.
Ask Scotland brings together a network of professional librarian expertise from all over Scotland. The service will enable greater use of public libraries and their unique collections and resources to answer all Scottish history related queries.
The current service is delivered online with customers filling out a web form, librarians can then use the Question Point service to email an answer to each customer. Please visit our eReference library page for more information.
You can email a question using the online form or chat with a librarian using our instant messaging service, which is available 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday.
Highland Libraries Satisfy!
Citizens’ Panel Results on Council Performance, full report 2011
A new survey of public opinion of Highland Council services reports that the net satisfaction rate among those commenting on the Library Service is 89%. The Highland Council’s Performance Report for 2011 notes that this is ‘a remarkable rating and the highest accorded any of the services at any time in these performance surveys.’ Click here to read the full report
Try Highland Libraries new On-line catalogue - 'High-Cat' and let us know what you think. We welcome your valuable feedback and comments as we develop the resource further. Click here to try the new version.
To leave your comments and suggestions, please follow the Feedback link on-site. Please be as detailed as possible so that we can develop the catalogue to meet your library and information needs.
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Events and Festivals
Join in a range of activities and events this summer taking place across the Highlands. Browse up-coming activities on High-Societies events calendar.
For more information about events and festivals happening in the Highlands, visit the Highland Events and Festivals website and Inverness Festivals, which included details of the summer, and up-coming winter festivals in Inverness.
Now you can follow Highland Libraries on the popular social networking website 'Facebook'. Keep up to date with latest Highland Library news and events, find out about new library stock and collections, and get involved in your library service.
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Highland Libraries carries a wide variety of information to help you deal with the economic downturn, whether you're facing redundancy, looking for help with benefits, or simply trying to understand your rights as a consumer. View the Surviving the Credit Crunch PDF in Current Documents for a list of some of the resources Highland Libraries has to offer. Don't forget - you can join, borrow books and use the computers all for FREE!
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