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Annual Review

contents
Introduction
From the President 2
指导留学生论文From the Chief Executive 4
The Year’s Achievements
Advocacy 7
Awards 14
Education & Professional Development 18
Enterprise 30
Infrastructure 38
CILIP Special Interest Groups 46
Principal Officers and Council 2002-03 57
Inaugurated in April 2002 following the unification of the Institute of Information
Scientists and the Library Association. Originally incorporated by the Library
Association Royal Charter 1898.
We have over 22,000 members, most of whom are personal members whoseworking environments include libraries in higher and further education, industrialand commercial organisations, the health sector, professional and learned
societies, government and local government departments and agencies, schools,voluntary organisations and national and public libraries.
A total of 13,307 of our members are Chartered (MCLIP) and a further 933 are
Fellows. We have personal members in about 100 countries worldwide.Some of our 508 institutional members have been in continuous membership,first of the Library Association and subsequently of CILIP, since the nineteenth
century. We have 106 overseas institutional members in 42 countries. Inaddition, 17 organisations are Corporate Partners or members of our Suppliers’
Network.
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Margaret Watson
The second year of the Institute has been one of continuity, development andenhancement. A great deal has been achieved in establishing the new CILIP‘brand’ both within the library and information domain and, perhaps even moreimportantly, in other sectors and beyond. Staff at Ridgmount Street have workedextremely hard to produce quality information products and services, whichsupport members and give that important professional edge in the outside world.
There are still many challenges to meet and further opportunities to explore, butwe are well on the way to meeting the ambitious objectives set out in theCorporate Plan.#p#分页标题#e#
It was very clear that in order to meet those objectives we still had to spendsome time looking at the way CILIP is organised and administered. During thisyear all branches in CILIP became co-terminous with the Regional Development
Agencies and we can look forward to a fruitful partnership with regionalMuseum, Libraries and Archives Councils, supported by the Regional LibraryAdvisory Group (CILIP, BL and MLA), through the implementation of MLA’s‘Routes to Knowledge’. The Home Nations Forum continues to enable UK-widestrategy and policy to be shared as well astodisseminate good practice withinthe four nations. CILIP also undertook the promised fundamental review toensure a better financial future for the Institute. Part of this review involves achange in thestaff structure at Ridgmount Street, which will be implemented in2004-5. CILIP also undertook a review of its committee structure to ensure thatwe were working efficiently and effectively within resources available. The reviewpanel explored the possibilities of e-governance within CILIP and investigated thepotential of an audit committee with the power of scrutiny to ensure opennessand accountability in all governance matters.
Council this year has debated many issues, which are mentioned elsewhere in the report. However some items have been crucial to the success of the
Corporate Plan and the development of the Institute. The fundamental review,committee review and website development all featured highly in debate. The
Code of Professional Ethics was agreed in February; all Members had beeninvolved in the consultation process and the Ethics Panel notably chaired byformer President Bernard Naylor produced a clear and authoritative Code. TheFreedom of Information report, which came to Council in February, was adoptedunanimously and has led to FoI workshops being organised by CILIP within theregions in 2004-2005. In its meeting in July as part of Umbrella 2003, Councilintroduced an Open Forum session so that members attending Umbrella couldhave a chance to see Council in operation and take part in a debate structuredaround topics suggested by Members. This Open Forum will be repeated atUmbrella 2005.
One of the other important ongoing discussions at Council and within Branchesand Groups concerns the new Qualifications Framework. All members were
consulted about the two new elements: Certification and Revalidation. Over 1000individual and group responses were received and a number of stakeholdermeetings were also held. Draft regulations for Certification, Chartership,
Revalidation and Fellowship go to Council in April, and for final agreement inJuly for implementation in April 2005. As both President of CILIP and Chair ofthe Qualifications Framework Steering Group, I have been able to engage withhundreds of Members around the country, from many different sectors, indiscussing all aspects of the new Framework and its implementation process.
Many of the suggestions and ideas contributed by Members will be incorporated#p#分页标题#e#
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from the president
Margaret Watson, President
in the new Handbooks for each level, which will be available in early autumn. Aspart of the ongoing work on the Framework, CILIP has commissioned amentoring scheme, is undertaking an audit of training activities for Certification,and is to embark on a longitudinal study to analyse the impact of the new
Framework.
On a personal level, this year has been a most rewarding and enjoyable year forme as President. One of the most enjoyable aspects of being CILIP President isthat you get invited to celebratory events. I have been fortunate to attend andpresent awards at the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards; CILIP Gala
Awards, where this year two new awards were announced: the Diversity Award,sponsored by CILIP, and the Online Community Award, sponsored by FreePint;the CILIP/Online Information Personal Development Award which went this yearto an outstanding young professional Carol Wurzbacher; the Visionary DesignAwards, sponsored by the National Library for the Blind, and of course the firstever CILIP Honorary Fellowships awarded at our AGM and Members Day in
October.
I have also had many opportunities to meet members from all sectors within the
profession, from all areas of the United Kingdom, and many colleagues fromoverseas. I have addressed over seventeen different special interest groups andspoken at branch meetings and national meetings. I was fortunate to attend thejoint Irish Conference in Galway in April, the joint ALA/CLA Conference in Torontoin June, IFLA in Berlin in September and the IFLA meeting Libraries @ Heart of
the Information Society in Geneva, which was an important preparatory meetingto the World Summit on the Information Society and to speak at an international
Seminar on Professional Education in Parma, Italy in November. Although thereare many differences in the contexts in which we all operate, there are moreissues and concerns which unite us and which should empower the profession tospeak out and to be more visible in the knowledge economy. Inevitably many ofthe talks and presentations I gave were centred on continuing professionaldevelopment, my presidential theme, and on the new qualifications framework.
The commitment and high motivation of those Members, attending conferences,study days and meetings, was very obvious and impressed on me the wayinformation professionals have generally understood the need to change anddevelop, without losing traditional and valued expertise and skills.
It is extremely important to me that we engage with new informationprofessionals and encourage them to join the Institute and begin to work on their
Chartership. So I was very pleased to take part in the redesigned CILIPRoadshows for students in library and information science departments as well ascontribute to Chartership events around the country. Despite much of the gloomand doom about the greying of the profession and less take-up in professionalactivities, it was a pleasure to meet so many new information professionals whohave lots of bright ideas and who are committed to the profession and tocontinuing development.#p#分页标题#e#
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Bob McKee PhD MIInfSc FRSA ALA
Development and delivery
The first three years of CILIP’s life – the period of the first CILIP Corporate Plan
from April 2002 to March 2005 – are about helping our Institute grow from
infancy to maturity. With that in mind the second year of CILIP – 2003/04 – felt
somewhat like adolescence: a mix of positive development and difficult times.
Last year our first President Sheila Corrall said that much had been done butthere was still much to do. That statement remains true. The work of “growing
CILIP” continued in 2003/04 and is still continuing. Let me give you someexamples from the year under review.
We completed the transition to new CILIP Branches in the nine regions of
England and we established the Home Nations Forum as a means of sharing thediversity – and commonality – of our interests across Scotland, Wales, Northern
Ireland and the regions of England.
We established the new Diversity Group as an important step forward in ourcommitment to issues of diversity and equality. We welcomed the Library and
Information Research Group (LIRG) into the CILIP community of Groups as animportant statement of our commitment to research-led and evidence-based
professional practice. We established new Rules of operation for our Branchesand our Groups.
We continued to press forward with our work on the new CILIP Framework of
Qualifications, carrying out a substantial consultation exercise and formulatingdetailed proposals which will come into effect in Spring 2005.
We embarked on a review of the governance of CILIP and we began work onethics and equalities – all of this work that will bear fruit in 2004/05.Progress quite often creates turbulence and we had some difficult times duringthe year under review. Our finances, our website development programme, our
Fundamental Review – at times these all caused concern. But each of thesechallenges was met successfully.
CILIP’s first financial year was always going to be difficult to predict and the
economic downturn made this an even tougher task. But our second year – theyear under review – shows a substantial operating surplus and a significantlyimproved financial position. There were a number of contributing factors – theeconomic upturn, a strong performance by CILIP Enterprises, careful control ofcosts and some efficiency savings. More work needs to be done but we areheading in the right direction in terms of a sound and sustainable financial modelfor our Institute.
We put the website project on “pause” for a few months during the autumn of
2003 when it became clear that more work needed to be done on the technicaland financial aspects of the planned development. A revised websitedevelopment programme was approved by Council in December 2003 and isnow moving ahead. A sound ICT infrastructure is essential to CILIP’s future andmore work still has to be done to bring our systems up to standard.#p#分页标题#e#
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from the
chief executive
Bob McKee, Chief ExecutiveProgress with the Fundamental Review sometimes seemed slow – but this wasalways intended to be a two year review programme to be carried out in
2003/04 and 2004/05. In the year under review a great deal of work was done“behind the scenes” by the Fundamental Review Group – on the budget, thestrategic framework of CILIP activities, and the staffing structure at RidgmountStreet – enabling the Review to focus on a number of specific tasks to becompleted in 2004/05. CILIP is a work in progress – and that progress
continues.
All of this may suggest an inward looking organisation focused only on its owninternal issues. But CILIP also looks outward to partner organisations, the wider
library and information domain, and civil society both nationally andinternationally. One important symbol of this outward focus – and of our move togreater openness and transparency – was the Open Forum held with members of
CILIP Council at the successful Umbrella event in Manchester 2003. This AnnualReview gives you many other examples of the range and depth of CILIP activities.
Here I will mention just a few.
We launched Gazette and our web-based current awareness service and a widerand more relevant range of Member benefits. We engaged with a wide range ofpolicy issues – social inclusion, freedom of information, the learning agenda,information literacy, to name just a few. We worked closely with agencies like
Resource (now MLA) and the British Library on work to extend legal deposit, tostrengthen the regional infrastructure in England, to identify a common agendaacross the library and informationdomain,andto lobby government about the
importance of investing in knowledge through library and information services.
We argued strongly for the development of the new network of Sector Skills
Councils and in particular for the establishment of a Lifelong Learning Sector
Skills Council.
In Scotland we continued to work in partnership with SLIC, the Scottish Libraryand Information Council. In Wales we helped to prepare for CyMAL, the new
Museums Archives Libraries Council for Wales. In Ireland we signed an importantMemorandum of Understanding with the Library Association of Ireland.Internationally we made our contribution, through IFLA, to the World Summit onthe Information Society – and we played our part in pressing government toreinstate the UK UNESCO National Commission. We continued to extend ouractivities and our influence across the whole of the library/information/knowledgecontinuum across the UK and internationally.
For much of this brief report I’ve used the work “we” in describing the activities
of CILIP. This is quite deliberate. CILIP is a single community of Members andstaff working to common purpose. We’re all in this together. That we can achieveso much is credit to the hard work of our staff – but also to the immense amountof voluntary activity by our Members. My heartfelt thanks to everyone in theCILIP community who is helping with the work as CILIP continues to grow frominfancy to maturity and we continue to develop and deliver the services andactivities which add value for the library and information community.#p#分页标题#e#
Thank you.
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the year’s
achievements
Policy issues
Ethics
There were over 70 responses to the consultation exercise that took place on the
draft Code of Professional Ethics in the early summer of 2003. In the light of the
response the Ethics Panel, chaired by Bernard Naylor, made important changes
and produced two separate but related documents – “Principles of Ethical
Behaviour” and a “Code of Professional Practice”. These documents received a
warm reception from Council in February 2004, but some changes were
requested and a lawyer will look at the text. The Panel also presented a revised
Disciplinary Procedure for CILIP to Council, but this too will be subject to legal
scrutiny.
Equal Opportunities and Diversity
The Equal Opportunities and Diversity Panel, chaired by Pat Beech, developed an
Equal Opportunities and Diversity Strategy for CILIP over the year making use of
the recommendations from the report of the Social Inclusion Executive Advisory
Group. The strategy gained approval from the Executive Board at its meeting in
March 2004 (and was also later endorsed by Council in April 2004). The Panel
also consulted with Branches and Groups, held a number of sectoral
brainstorms, and sought individual comments through the CILIP website on the
idea of introducing some form of “Spectrum” scheme in the UK. (Spectrum is an
American Library Association programme where bursaries are offered to
candidates from minority ethnic backgrounds to gain an LIS qualification and
mentoring and networking opportunities are provided later in their careers. It is
already evident that any UK scheme would have to be different from the US
model). It has now been agreed to incorporate “Spectrum” as a part of the new
Framework of Professional Qualifications.
Executive Advisory Groups (EAGs)
Executive Advisory Groups are task and finish groups reviewing key policy areas
and making recommendations to CILIP. Most have now reported but the Health
Executive Advisory Group, chaired by Judith Palmer, was the last to be
established and will report later in 2004. It held an invitation only workshop in
May 2003 to identify the key issues in health, especially those that might have
importance across the LIS profession. Over the year it has also held discussions
with a wide variety of expert witnesses and invited contributions from the wider
professional community.
The Executive Board of CILIP received a review on progress in implementing the
recommendations from other EAG reports at its meeting in June 2003. Nigel
Oxbrow chaired a special workshop in September on how to take forward the
recommendation of the KEAG (KM Executive Advisory Group) report to establish
an Investors in Information award.#p#分页标题#e#
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advocacy
Framework for the Future
CILIP was a major contributor to the process of developing the Framework for the
Future (of public libraries in England). Bob McKee, CILIP’s Chief Executive,
played an important role in developing the ideas that underpin Framework for the
Future and subsequently has influenced its implementation as a member of the
Strategic Implementation Group (for the Framework) and also as a member of the
MLA Board and an observer on the Advisory Council for Libraries. The Public
Libraries Panel also discussed the Framework extensively and contributed to the
drawing up of the Development Plan to implement the Framework. CILIP has led
in a number of work areas to do with the Framework – these included notably
the mapping of children’s study support, and a range of building related projects
that are being managed by the Designing Libraries Steering Group chaired by
Debby Shorley.
Regionalism
The partnership between CILIP, Resource and the British Library to ensure an LIS
presence in the regions, and in the MLA regional agencies especially, continued
with the joint funding of RLAG – the Regional Library Advisory Group. This group
consists of two representatives from each of the English regions, plus
representatives of the national partners and observers from the other Home
Nations. It met for the first time in September 2003 and elected Clare Connor as
Chair and Geoff Warren as Vice- chair. It has a budget of just under £80,000
and, at its meeting in March 2004, agreed to spend a substantial part of that in
supporting Inspire, the national framework being developed to coordinate and
encourage local and regional library access agreements across sectors.
Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information (FOI) Panel chaired by Linda Wishart met three
times over the year. The report of the FOI Panel was received by Council at its
meeting in December 2003 and its recommendations endorsed but with the
proviso that it should better reflect the differences in FOI practice across the
home nations in the UK. A workshop to gather experience of FOI from CILIP's
membership was held in October 2003 and more are planned during 2004. The
Panel is now looking at how to implement the recommendations in its report and
also to consider policy statements on freedom of expression and censorship, and
the issues raised by filtering.
Lobbying Government and other influential bodies
The Higher Education in Further Education Working Group has been established
to develop and update CILIP policy on the delivery of higher education
programmes in further education colleges. It is currently working to produce a
guidance document for CILIP members and an advocacy tool for use with the
Quality Assurance Agency.
Towards a unified e-learning strategy DfES consultation#p#分页标题#e#
It was felt that the importance of the development of libraries as both providers
and deliverers of e-learning could not be fully expressed in a standard response
and Kathy Ennis, Post-16 Adviser, organised a debate in January between Diana
Laurillard, Head of the E-Learning Strategy Unit at the DfES and 35 library and
information professionals to formulate the CILIP response to the DfES
consultation. All the delegates participated and issues raised that had not been
fully covered in the consultation document were minuted and sent to Diana to
use as part of the consultation process.
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The Learning Place Consortium, of which CILIP is a founder member, has
presented to six local authorities. The consortium emerged as a group following
interest in the regeneration of public space as a means to promote social
cohesion and inclusion. It was felt that the creation of local centres combining
library, adult education and enterprise support could be vehicles to develop a
new perception of shared resources within communities. The consortium has
been involved in the DCMS think tank focus groups to look at learning and
spatial design and feeds into the Public Libraries Panel.
In collaboration with CILIP's Youth and Schools Panel, CILIP responses were
made to the DfES consultation document Every Child Matters on which the
Government intends, subject to the outcome of the consultation, to introduce
legislation; and, to the Arts Council Review of Children's Literature, the responses
to which will be used to inform a strategy for Arts Council England's future work
in this area. In February a response was made to the Science and Technology
Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publications.
CILIP is lobbying to maintain the library Surestart target, which has raised the
profile of libraries' contribution to early years development and proved an effective
catalyst in gaining funding for libraries. A joint meeting of CILIP, Sure Start, and
MLA takes place in April 2004.
World Book Day Virtual Reading Festival
CILIP led a partnership with the People’s Network and the publishing community
to deliver the first Virtual Reading Festival through libraries to celebrate World
Book Day 2003. Michael Rosen, Malorie Blackman, Meera Syal, Nigella
Lawson, and a range of other authors were webstreamed in special web events
throughout the day. Terry Pratchett rounded the Festival off with a live web
broadcast interview with Jeremy Vine from Peckham Library. The project was
supported by the Arts Council and World Book Day Ltd.
World Book Day CILIP/Book Aid International Project
Ten UK libraries established new links on World Book Day with libraries in
developing countries in a joint Book Aid International and CILIP project. ‘Reading#p#分页标题#e#
Round the World’ celebrated reading and encouraged young library users to think
about lives in different parts of the globe, using Dorling Kindersley’s book “A Life
Like Mine”. The project was sponsored by the Pearson Trust.
Copyright
CILIP convenes and conducts its lobbying and advocacy work on copyright and
related rights through LACA: the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, to
which Barbara Stratton, CILIP's Copyright Adviser, is Secretary. Since last year
LACA has been leading the library and archives sector's lobbying of the
Government about how the EU Copyright Directive is to be implemented in the
UK. Barbara has continued as a member of EFPICC UK (European Fair Practices
in Copyright Campaign), which is monitoring the UK implementation of the
Copyright Directive. A new EU Draft Directive on the enforcement of intellectual
property rights is also causing concern and LACA has written to the Patent Office
concerning this and is co-ordinating with EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library,
Information and Documentation Associations) concerning further lobbying in
Europe. LACA has continued liaising with its sister group, the Museums
Copyright Group (MCG), on matters of shared interest and is collaborating with
MCG on certain projects
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The way the UK Government is implementing the Copyright Directive has given
rise to the need for new types of copying licences from rightsholder collecting
societies for prescribed (which includes most not-for-profit) libraries to allow for
low-level document supply and to cover walk-in library users undertaking nonstatutory
copying. Barbara has been involved with the library groups that have
been developing these new licences with the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA).
She also convened a meeting to open negotiations between LACA, BRICMICS
(British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Cataloguing Systems) and
the Ordnance Survey to discuss renewal of the 'BRICMICS Agreement' and
appropriate licensing arrangements upon implementation of the Directive. After
making initial contact last year, LACA is continuing discussions with the
Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) to assist the further development of its
licences. As a member of the DACS (Design and Artists Copyright Society) Slide
Collection Licensing Scheme Steering Group, Barbara is involved in discussions
with DACS on digital licensing. On behalf of CILIP she has opened discussions
with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) concerning the CILIP (formerly
LA)/BPI Agreement for the loan of sound recordings in public libraries. She also
participated in a meeting convened by DCMS to look at Public Lending Right and
audiobooks.
Howard Picton, Secretary of the Information Services Group's Standing
Committee on Official Publications (SCOOP) and Deputy Manager of the Bank of#p#分页标题#e#
England's Information Centre, has been appointed as CILIP's Representative on
the Crown Copyright Advisory Panel which is a Non-Departmental Public Body
with direct access to Ministers.
International relations
The International Department organised a number of visits by overseas colleagues
to UK libraries and information centre and provided support to members in their
international activities. Bilateral work with "sister" associations continues offering
members opportunities to visit colleagues overseas, promoting British experience
and excellence and to learn from other countries. Work to develop the LIBEX
clearinghouse database for international job exchanges (taken over from the
University of Aberystwyth in April) continues and there will be a launch event on
Members' Day.
IFLA
This year 37 members were provided with financial support to attend the World
Library and Information Congress in Berlin. These included four "first-timers" who
were given grants to cover the cost of attendance in total. All have produced
excellent reports and the value of this investment in a successor generation of
IFLA activists continues to be demonstrated.
CILIP co-operated as usual with British Council colleagues to mount a stand, the
theme this year was "Information into Knowledge" and to host a reception for UK
delegates at the British Embassy.
Responsibilities as the host organisation for IFLA in Glasgow made it difficult to
fully utilise the 2002 conference to exchange information and ideas with
colleagues. This year's IFLA Conference in Berlin therefore proved invaluable in
re-establishing international (and national) contacts.
Sue Brown, CILIP's Director of Member Services, met with Britt-Marie Hagstrom,
ex-President of EBLIDA, to exchange information on copyright, cultural and
industrial issues and the Bologna Declaration affecting qualifications. In
November Sue Brown was invited to attend the EBLIDA Executive Committee
meetings as an adviser. Following the meeting in Slovenia in February, Sue will
chair a new EBLIDA Working Group on Professional Qualifications and also
agreed to review and edit EBLDA's 2004-7 draft strategy document.
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A meeting with Ismail Abdullahi and with Hiyan Kang, a member of the Diversity
Group, which Ismail was inspirational in helping to set up following his work
with the ALA Black Caucus, has resulted in plans for a progress meeting which
Ismail will attend this autumn. Sue Brown also met with Jennefer Nicholson,
Chief Executive of ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) to talk
specifically about the Framework of Qualifications and in particular CPD
schemes.
Additionally, Kathy Ennis delivered a paper for the Continuing Professional
Development Section on providing effective CPD to academic libraries. Jill Martin#p#分页标题#e#
met with colleagues from a range of countries, and discussions included detailed
proposals from the China Society for Library Science on an extensive programme
of co-operation.
The British National IFLA Federation (BNIF) met for the last time in its current
form, and discussions are ongoing about the design of a more useful Caucus
meeting for UK delegates in future years. Membership of the Governing Board
and Professional Committee were announced with Ian McIwaine becoming Chair
of the latter, and therefore a member of the Executive Committee of Governing
Board. Paul Sturges becomes Chair of the FAIFE Committee.
Progress will be made this year to restructure the IFLA fees process and Jill
Martin is in contact with Jan Ewout van der Putten, President of EBLIDA, to
ensure that our views, as a major fee payer, are included in the review.
Barbara Stratton, CILIP's Copyright Adviser, attended her first meeting as CILIP's
representative on EBLIDA's Copyright Expert Group (EBLIDA-CEG) in Dublin in
May and has joined IFLA's Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters
(IFLA-CLM), attending the IFLA-CLM meetings and sessions during the World
Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council in
Berlin in August. The contacts made and information exchanged with these
groups has enabled CILIP and LACA to monitor European and global trends,
input into IFLA policy development, co-ordinate action and inform national
lobbying on copyright matters.
Anglo Scandinavian Public Library Conference
The Anglo Scandinavian Public Library Conference on Libraries, Learning and
Life, ran successfully in Exeter in May 2003 with participation from colleagues in
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland. Members from UK public
libraries were able to attend a high calibre residential conference free of charge
and exchange ideas with an international group who have much to offer. It was
followed by a study tour of innovative public libraries which gave members in
libraries of all sizes an opportunity to showcase best practice and network with
overseas colleagues. It was thought that this 50th Anniversary Conference might
be the last of the series, because of an outdated funding structure. However at
the Conference and at a subsequent meeting during the IFLA Conference in
Berlin, Jill Martin led discussions with Nordic colleagues to seek a new funding
model which will allow the Conference to continue, with the next occurrence
provisionally planned for 2006 in Sweden.
UK National Commission for UNESCO
UK National Commission for UNESCO. CILIP has actively supported the move to
re-establish a UK National Commission for UNESCO following its closure by DfID
earlier this year. The UK is now the only one of 188 member countries with no
national commission. Following a meeting of interested parties in May, a Steering#p#分页标题#e#
Group was set up to take matters forward and a proposal submitted to DfID in
September putting forward a proposed infrastructure to incorporate a National
Assembly, an Executive Committee and Sectorial sub-commissions covering
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UNESCO's major programme sectors – Education, Natural Sciences, Social and
Human Sciences, Culture, Communications and Information – supported by a
Secretariat. The proposal also outlined specific initiatives across all the
programme sectors that will benefit from UK involvement. At the end of the year
it was confirmed that lobbying had been successful and government has agreed
to re-establish a UK National Commission.
World Summit on the Information Society
This important event under United Nations patronage is being organised by the
International Telecommunication Union and will take place in December 2003 in
Geneva and November 2005 in Tunis. The focus is on the societal changes
brought about by the information revolution that has grown from ICT advances.
CILIP has been involved in preparations for the Geneva summit in partnership
both with the British Council, who are co-ordinating UK Civil input and with IFLA
who are organising a Pre-Conference for the LIS sector in November which
Margaret Watson and Jill Martin will attend.
Travelling Librarian Award
In partnership with the English Speaking Union (ESU) we once again supported
a Member for the "Travelling Librarian" Award which is a travel scholarship for
two weeks to visit libraries of the winner's choice in the USA and act as an
ambassador for CILIP and the ESU. This year's winner is Anne Peoples of the
Western Education & Library Board in Northern Ireland.
Jill Martin was invited to become a member of an interview panel for ESU which
resulted in the successful recruitment of a new ESU librarian.
Senior representatives from CILIP attended Book Aid International's 50th Birthday
celebration at Shakespeare’s UnderGlobe in London.
Marketing & External Relations
The Marketing & External Relations team successfully pursued its regular
programme of awards and campaigns this year, as well as maintaining its
customary close relationships with the Library+information Show and Online
Information 2003, and exhibiting at Umbrella. In October 2003, the team was
also responsible for a successful programme of events designed to increase
attendance at Members’ Day. These included the CILIP Showcase, an exhibition
to promote CILIP’s full range of services to both existing and potential members,
held in the Ewart Room, and a programme of free workshops, managed by CILIP
Training & Development.
Throughout the year, the Head of External Relations worked with the Member
Recruitment & Retention Panel on measures to improve the CILIP membership#p#分页标题#e#
proposition. Outcomes included: more active cross-selling of CILIP services (to
the extent possible within existing budgetary constraints); the launch of a daily
online alerting service to members; improvements to CILIP’s portfolio of affinity
benefits (the most notable addition being an offer of significant reductions to
CILIP members on Microsoft Office software); and extensive work on CILIP
subscriptions, culminating in a set of proposals for an entirely new subscription
structure designed to encourage retention of existing members and thereby free
up time for further recruitment activities.
Following an awayday to assess workload and priorities, the Team also
successfully sought authority to withdraw from management of the Gala Awards
event. Although it was recognized that the event had had the desired effect of
raising the profile of the awards featured, the Member Recruitment & Retention
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Panel acknowledged that it did not contribute in any measure to CILIP’s priority
task of recruiting and retaining members, and that the staff time and budget
released as a result of withdrawal from its management could be better put
towards other promotional activities. The return of each award to its owning
Group was accomplished in the spring of 2004, while the Team simultaneously
began planning a new programme of advertising and direct marketing of CILIP
services, designed to roll out from the autumn of 2004.
Events and campaigns
School Libraries Campaign
Over 85% of English local education authorities have signed up to the autumn
advocacy campaign for school library provision which CILIP is leading and the
DfES is funding. A special advocacy brochure has been produced, illustrated by
Greenaway Medal winner Lauren Child and prefaced by Charles Clarke, the
Secretary of State for Education and Skills. 20,000 brochures have been
distributed for use in campaign. A campaign website was launched in August.
Jonathan Douglas has chaired the working party which has planned the
campaign, edited the brochure and commissioned the website. A special
campaign briefing was held in July to invite the support of key national
stakeholders. Twenty five organisations were represented and pledged their
support.
A stakeholders’ seminar, organised by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
(QCA), gave an opportunity to promote the role of school libraries as part of the
"School Libraries: making a difference advocacy project”. A senior adviser for
Ofsted showed his support for school libraries’ contribution to the Wider Reading
agenda through an article written in support of this role. He also contributed a
supporting statement to the foreword to CILIP's Guidelines for Secondary School
Libraries.
Planet Science
Following the success of the Frontiers: Science in Libraries campaign last year,#p#分页标题#e#
Planet Science (previously the government’s Science Year team) invited CILIP to
apply for funding to involve libraries in a national promotion for 2003.
The promotion was the Planet Science Whodunit, which centred around a
fictitious crime scenario featuring popstars Ms Dynamite, Busted, Blazin’ Squad
and S-Club, England footballer James Beattie and world class BMX rider Zach
Shaw as the suspects and victim. The project was aimed at students aged 8-14
years and ran, mostly through schools from May until June.
To accompany the main investigation involving the forensic kits (which
happended exclusively in the classroom), CILIP provided linked resources for
school and public librarians which promoted reader development and information
skills. A specially designed Library poster, featuring the pop group Busted was
also distributed. For further information on this campaign visit
www.frontiers4libraries.org.uk
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The CILIP / LiS Libraries Change Lives Award
Organised in partnership with the Community Services Group and sponsored by
the Library + information Show. Awarded in May.
Winner: eye2eye – The Visually Impaired IT project – Portsmouth City Library
Service
Finalists
Caring About Reading -- Leicestershire County Library Service
Out-of-School Learning Homework Helpers Club – Renfrewshire Libraries
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway
Children’s Book Awards
Organised in partnership with the Youth Libraries Group and presented at the
British Library in July.
CILIP Carnegie Medal – for an outstanding book for children and young people
Winner: Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech, published by Bloomsbury Children’s
Books
Highly Commended: Up on cloud nine by Anne Fine, published by Corgi
CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal – for an outstanding book for children and young
people in terms of illustration
Winner: Jethro Byrde – Fairy Child by Bob Graham, published by Walker Books
Commended: That Pesky Rat by Lauren Child, published by Orchard Books
The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards shadowing scheme
An estimated 30,000 children and young people in 1,350 school and public
library reading groups shadowed the medals this year. The interactive website
was improved to allow groups to create their own home pages
incorporating a photograph and text description as well as their book reviews.
More than 180 groups took up this challenge and many more submitted book
reviews to the site, resulting in over 11,500 reviews being added between May
and the middle of July. CILIP worked in partnership with the National Library for
the Blind to produce Braille copies of the shortlisted titles. This meant that pupils#p#分页标题#e#
in two schools for the Blind (Edinburgh and Worcester) could participate in the
shadowing.
In May, 350 children and young people took part in a ‘Writers and Artists’ event
at the Polka Theatre for Children, where they met many of the shortlisted authors
and illustrators. The event was filmed and a video made available at cost price to
groups who were unable to attend.
Children from the Abingdon Carnegie Forum and Paddington Library attended the
Award ceremony at the British Library on 11 July along with pupils from New
College Worcester who presented the Carnegie winner with a Braille copy of her
book.
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awards
The CILIP Awards Gala Presentation Day
Two new Awards were presented at the second CILIP Gala Presentation Day, at
the Landmark Hotel in London on 21 November. They were the Diversity Awards
(in two categories) and the Online Community Award, sponsored by FreePint. A
sponsorship deal for the Jason Farradane Award was also secured with wellknown
business information publishers, Kompass. The results were as follows:
The CILIP / Emerald Public Relations and Publicity Awards
Organised in partnership with the Publicity and Public Relations Group and
sponsored by Managementfirst from Emerald.
Category 1: Promotional Campaign with a budget under £500
Winner: Books @ Lunch Time, West Lothian Council – Library Services
Commended: Have we got news for you! Newman College of HE Library &
Student Support Centre
Category 2: Promotional Campaign with a budget over £500
Winner: Surf's Up in Plymouth, Plymouth Library and Information Services
Highly Commended: Awareness Week 2002, NeLH, NHS Information Authority
Commended: Beyond Words Festival 2003, South Eastern Education & Library
Board, Library Service
Category 3: Printed Publicity Material
Joint Winner: Accesspoint Campaign, Leeds City Council
Joint Winner: Pfizer Ltd. Information Centre: one year birthday event, Pfizer Ltd.
Highly Commended: Reading the Games, Manchester Library & Information
Service
Category 4: Multi-Media Publicity Material
Commended: LogintoLearn.com North Lanarkshire Libraries and Information
The Tom Farries Award for Personal PR Achievement
Winner: Greta Williams, St Ives Library, Cornwall
The CILIP / Nielsen BookData Reference Awards
Organised in association with the Information Services Group; the Cataloguing
and Indexing Group; the Multimedia Information & Technology Group and the
Society of Indexers. The Awards are sponsored by Nielsen BookData.
The Besterman / McColvin Medal for an outstanding work of reference:
Printed Category
Winner: Early Printed Books Catalogue 1478 – 1840: catalogue of the British
Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection, vol 5. Compiled for the Royal#p#分页标题#e#
Institute of British Architects British Architectural Library by Paul W Nash,
Nicholas Savage, Gerald Beasley, John Meriton and Alison Shell, published by K
G Saur
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Highly Commended: The Botanical Garden, vols 1 & 2 by Roger Phillips and
Martyn Rix, published by Macmillan
Commended: Companion to British Road Haulage History, edited by John
Armstrong, John Aldridge, Grahame Boyes, Gordon Mustoe and Richard Storey,
published by the Science Museum ISBN: 1900747464
Electronic Category
WINNER: xreferplus  published by xrefer Ltd
Highly Commended: Dermatology Online  edited by Jean L
Bolognia, Joseph L Jorizzo and Ronald P Rapini, published by Elsevier Mosby
Commended : BNF 45: British National Formulary, digital versions, published by
the BMA and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index, awarded in association with the
Society of Indexers
Winner: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Editor in Chief Lynn Nadel, published
by Nature Publishing Group. Indexer: L Virgo
Commended: Dermatology, edited by Jean L Bolognia, Joseph L Jorizzo and
Ronald P Rapini, published by Elsevier Mosby. Indexer: Jan Ross
Commended: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Publishing Director Gina Fullerlove,
published by Nature Publishing Group. Indexer: Jan Ross (Merrall – Ross
International)
The Walford Award for sustained and continual contribution to the science and
art of bibliography
Winner: Paul W Nash
The CILIP Jason Farradane Award, sponsored by Kompass
Organised in partnership with the Workplace and Information Services Panel and
sponsored by Kompass
Winner: London Metropolitan University and the TUC for The Union Makes Us
Strong: TUC History OnlineThe UKOLUG Tony Kent Strix and Public Sector Awards
Organised by UKOLUG
The Tony Kent Strix Award
Winner: Herbert Van de Sompel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research
Library in recognition of his work on both SFX and OpenURL.
The Public Sector Award
Winner: Bournemouth Libraries for the Kinson Library Community Learning
Centre
The Diversity Awards
Organised in partnership with the Diversity Group
Category 1 – The Organisational Change Award
Winner: Learning Resources at the University of Wolverhampton
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Highly Commended: The Quality Leaders Project (QLP), Merton Library and
Heritage Service and London Metropolitan University
Category 2 – The Personal Achievement Award
Winner : Phil Burns, Youth Development Officer at Birmingham Library and
Information Service
Highly Commended: Ayub Khan, Principal Project Officer, Library of Birmingham#p#分页标题#e#
The Online Community Award, sponsored by FreePint
Winner: The CILIP/Online Information Personal Development Award
For the second year, CILIP joined forces with Online Information and Information
World Review to promote this Award, which recognises the achievement of
members from all sectors who have recently gained Chartered status by
demonstrating their personal and professional commitment to continuing
professional development. The Award was open to anyone who gained their
MCLIP between November 2002 and September 2003. The winner was
announced at the Online Information 2003 Gala Awards Dinner at the Royal
Garden Hotel, Kensington on Wednesday 3 December 2003, and received
Amazon vouchers worth £250.
Winner: Carol Wurcbacher, Survey Manager, Merseyside Information Service,
Mott MacDonald (to end 2003); Quality Support Information Co-ordinator at
Liverpool John Moores University (from 2004)
The CILIP & learndirect Achieve Award for e-learning
Continued partnership work with Ufi / learndirect resulted in a re-launch of an
award which promotes learning. The Achieve Award is for learners aged 16+
who have changed their life for the better by learning computer skills in a library
or information centre (academic, public or workplace). 20,000 entry forms and
2,000 posters were distributed to libraries and information centres during July,
August and September. Entries closed at the end of September and judging took
place late Autumn to decide 6 regional winners.
The Award ceremony took place at the British Library in January 2004. Regional
winners were:
Winner for the West – Ruth Atwick, Weston Branch Library near Bath
Winner for the South – Dolapo Fabusuyi, Bexleyheath Central Library in Kent
Winner for the East – Maria Garrett, Clacton Library in Essex
Winner for London – Richard Haines, North Kensington Library in London
Winner for the North – Brian McKenna, Stretford Library in Trafford
Winner for the Midlands – Michael Slattery, Sandwell Central Library in the West
Midlands
The national winner was Richard Haines from Kensington, also received a laptop
computer and £500 worth of travel vouchers as part of his prize.
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Accreditation and Chartership
Margaret Oldroyd has been elected Chair of the Chartership Board, taking over
from Chris West, Acting Chair, following the death of Justin Arundale last year.
For the first time a call for Board members was advertised and 8 appointments
were made at the September Board meeting and confirmed by the Professional
Development Committee. The process generated positive interest from many
members, with wide-ranging skills and understanding, wishing to participate in
this crucial area of CILIP's activities.#p#分页标题#e#
In July confirmation was finally received from the Open University Validation
Service (OUVS) that general credit points would continue to be awarded to both
Chartered Members and Fellows of CILIP. CILIP is one of only a small number of
professional bodies (8) whose qualifications have been assessed and accepted by
the OU for general credit rating.
New courses have been accredited at Napier University, City University and the
University of Northumbria, as well as re-confirming accreditation of a revised
course at Manchester.
The External examiners to the Chartership Board presented their first annual
reports in September 2003 and commented very positively on the thorough and
transparent procedures that ensure all candidates' registrations were dealt with in
a professional manner. Board membership was strengthened during the Autumn
when as well as 8 new Board members, 22 new Regional Assessors were also
appointed. During this period Board members assessed around 500 applications
for Chartered Membership and Fellowship and assessed 111 training and
development plans. Five accreditation events took place and led directly to
programmes in new and emerging areas joining the list of accredited courses.
Membership and Fellowship
In March 2004 the CILIP membership database was successfully migrated to a
Windows based programme that will enable effective links to be built to the new
website and support an enhanced interaction with Members.
Up to the middle of April, 17,004 Members had renewed, compared to 17,386
during the same period last year. 3,187 Members had opted for direct debit, an
increase on last year.
There were 2,163 lapsed personal members this year, those that had not paid by
1 July, compared to 2,335 last year, a reduction of 172. One pleasing outcome
of the work completed earlier in the year to encourage registration candidates to
complete the Chartership process was a reduction of two-thirds in the number of
lapsed members registered as candidates.
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education & professional
development
The total membership figures at 31st December 2003 are as follows:
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP 22689
Total UK Membership 21591
Total UK Personal Membership 21143
Associate 6211
Fellow 933
Chartered 13307
Affiliated 692
Supporting 29
UK Institutional Membership 402
Corporate Partners/Suppliers Network 17
Total Overseas Membership 1098
Total Overseas Personal Membership 992
Overseas Associate 365
Overseas Fellow 114
Overseas Chartered 513
Overseas Institutional Membership 106
Fellowship
Members based outside the UK have continued to express interest in
Fellowship: this year there have been three successful applications and one of
these, Madeleine Lefebvre, current President of the Canadian Library#p#分页标题#e#
Association, received her certificate at Members' Day on 23 October.
Alternative arrangements are being investigated to ensure that the other two
presentations can be made at suitable venues in each member's home
country.
Framework of Qualifications
This has been a period of intense activity during which time Members and
Officers have worked on the design and development of all areas of the new
Framework of Qualifications.
The Working Party on Skills and Competencies became the Framework of
Qualifications Steering Group with Margaret Watson as Chair in July. Work
undertaken to date to ensure that a new framework is in place for the
beginning of 2005 includes: a proposal for a Certification Scheme; a survey
into CPD schemes in other professional associations with a proposal for a
revalidation scheme for CILIP; a focus group to brainstorm and propose a
definition of our body of knowledge; and, production of a matrix for the
framework into which all the above will fit.
A consultation pack on the Certification and Revalidation Schemes was
distributed to all personal Members before Christmas. More than 1,000
responses have been received, and the issues raised in the pack have been
widely debated both face-to-face and through a number of electronic
discussion lists. Presentations on the proposed Framework have been made at
a number of branch and group events around the country. A Stakeholder Day
for employers and key partners took place in January and focused primarily on
the Knowledge Base and the proposed Chartership and Accreditation Schemes
and a consultative day with CILIP Branches was held in February.
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A 'Think Tank' group met in Loughborough in August to identify the core areas of
a new knowledge base for the LIS profession – the Body of Professional
Knowledge (BPK). Participants were drawn from all sectors of the LIS community
and provided a strong basis for further consultation on, and refinement of, the
BPK within the suite of CILIP Framework documents. This work is being
undertaken by a joint working group under the direction of the Chartership and
Accreditation Boards.
The Chartership and the Accreditation Boards have established a joint working
party to review and draft regulations and procedures. This is the final element in
the development of the CILIP Framework of Qualifications.
Sector Skills Council (SSC)
In April Council agreed to support the proposal to establish an Information and
Learning Communities Skills Sector Skills Council rather than the Creative and
Cultural Industries bid. The effect of this decision persuaded MLA, who had
formerly only supported the latter bid, to give equal support to both bids.
This proposal was subsequently expended into the Lifelong Learning SSC and
received as a positive "position statement" by the Sector Skills Development#p#分页标题#e#
Agency. Approximately £50,000 funding was released to take the proposal
forward to the "expression of interest" stage and a Shadow Board for the LLL SSC
was established in January. CILIP's nomination of Mike Hosking to be a member
of the Shadow Board was successful.
Enquiries and advice
Enquiries from the public sector are frequent. Issues arising from re-structuring
and guidance on salaries form a significant part of these. Common queries relate
to best practice in a specific area, equal opportunities (for example, cultural
diversity issues or the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act),
censorship, stock matters, health and safety issues, new/refurbished libraries,
"current" topics such as libraries and regeneration, or evaluation of services.
Some can be answered instantly; others require several hours of research.
Information Services
Innovative services have continued to be added throughout the period. These
include daily and weekly news services to members, which were launched in
May, and already have 872 subscribers. The 4th floor Information Centre opened
on Members' Day last year is proving popular especially with members from
outside London who are here for meetings and courses and with visiting overseas
members. In addition to now having the CILIP archives properly housed at UCL,
we are working on an archives policy to ensure proper future provision; this
should be complete by the end of the year.
Significant additions to the CILIP website include sections for two new Groups
(the Diversity Group and the Library and Information Research Group), for the
new President, and for Library + Information Gazette. INFOmatch has put all its
documents onto the website in order that users can access advice online and
download the forms needed to register staff requirements or to submit a CV. Also
added were a glossary of acronyms, a chart of CILIP governance, and the terms
of reference and a meeting diary for Committees and Panels. New websites were
created for the Umbrella 2003 and Public Library Authorities 2003 conferences.
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Professional advice, support and networking
Pay and Status
Following on from the 2002 Pay and Stauts Survey and the Final Report made
available in February 2003, a brief survey was put on the CILIP website aimed
at gathering salary data to support the development of two new salary guides.
These guides, Industrial and Business would be developed in partnership with
ICLG (Industrial and Commercial Librarians Group) and CIG (the City Information
Group). The particular challenge facing the working group was the wide variation
of sector and region covered by workplace librarians and the frequent lack of
understanding of their role by employers. The new guides will be available
Summer 2004.#p#分页标题#e#
In support of the work on Pay and Status, pay levels in public libraries were
monitored through the vacancies advertised in CILIP's Library and Information
Appointments. An article (part of a regular series), summarising the first findings,
also appeared in Appointments. The information is now being entered in to a
database which, over time, will give a more longitudinal view of pay in the sector
as well as providing raw data for use in cases of re-grading or to answer
members' queries.
Lyndsay Rees-Jones has been responsible for preparing the next stages of work
on Pay and status issues, working with colleagues in America, and proposals to
gather more data are currently under review.
Following the School Libraries Group (SLG) Conference 2002 a small working
group was established to develop advocacy materials for school librarians to
support them in improving their pay and status. This group has produced a selfempowerment
kit which is now published on the CILIP website. The kit contains
information, strategies and case studies.
Due to demand, the Public Library Salary Guide, is now available in leaflet
format . (It is also accessible via the CILIP website at
www.lisjobnet.org.uk/jobseek/public.pdf). A copy has been sent to the Head of
Libraries in each authority in England and has also been distributed via Unison's
network, to their workplace representatives
Challenging Invisibility
Kathy Ennis, CILIP's Post-16 Adviser, Susan Kay, CILIP's Professional
Qualifications Adviser, Lyndsay Rees-Jones, CILIP's Workplace and Solo Adviser
and Michael Martin, CILIP's Careers Information Manager, have developed a
'Portfolio' offer to the Schools of Library and Information Science. This CILIP One-
Day Conference will replace the Roadshows that have taken place for the past
few years. It is a much more pro-active approach, offering the academic
institutions a fully planned event that will be of interest to the wider information
community. The aim is to introduce themes and current issues in a coherent
one-day event, with the option to elaborate on these themes and issues at a later
point in the curriculum. The Portfolio is the first step of a wider, personal
advocate building programme developed within the Member Services Directorate
under the title Challenging Invisibility.
Lyndsay Rees-Jones hosted the first 'Coffee Mornings' under the Challenging
Invisibility banner in March which were well-received and run in partnership with
CILIP NW Branch focussing on four sectors in the region: HE/FE, Business,
Public and Health. Each of two sessions on each day focussed on a specific
sector (HE/FE, Business, Public and Health) and were an opportunity to discuss
freely issues of concern to practitioners in the region. Lyndsay was supported at#p#分页标题#e#
each session by Sue Valentine, Executive Officer for Libraries North West and
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Vice Chair of the NW Branch. It is hoped that post-review, other Branches and
Groups will work with Lyndsay to run similar session in the regions and
sectoraly. Being in Manchester allowed Lyndsay an opportunity to also run a
session for MMU library Trainees on Education, Enterprise, Advocacy: the role of
CILIP.
The first Portfolio session was held at Ridgmount Street in September, where
more than 30 students from UCL attended the lively and informative session.
Margaret Watson, CILIP President, opened the afternoon, Kathy Ennis led a
session on 'drawing' a typical information professional and Damien McManus and
Myrrhine Crowe, both Assistant Information Managers within Information
Services, told the Story of Jordan – a typical Chartership candidate. The afternoon
ended with a Panel Q&A session where the presenters were joined by Tim
Buckley Owen, Head of External Relations, Rose Painter, INFOMatch
Recruitment Consultant, Susan Kay, Professional Adviser, Professional
Qualifications and Suzanne Burge, CILIP Councillor and Chair of the Government
Libraries Group.
Workplace Librarianship
In Adviser on the road... February 2003, Lyndsay reported on a meeting she had
with Patricia Golinski, where they discussed how CILIP could support the
development of a group for information professionals working in the voluntary
sector. Subsequent to the issue being distributed and posted on the website, plus
the appearance of a column in the May issue of Update, Lyndsay helped
organise the inaugural meeting which is took place at the RNIB on the 2nd June.
A subsequent meeting took place on 7th November hosted by CILIP and which
was very well attended.
In June Lyndsay attended a Mentoring Workshop jointly developed by CILIP, the
Museums Association, the Society of Archivists and the National Council for
Conservation – Restoration, and hosted by Yorkshire MLAC in Leeds. A general
look at mentoring, was followed by sector specific surgeries, and Lyndsay
facilitated the library group.
In October Mark Field attended a meeting of the Committee of Departmental
Librarians, the community of senior government librarians where it was agreed
that an informal 'observer' role for CILIP would be mutually useful.
More general enquiries from Members have centred on Data Protection, and
Professional Indemnity for library and information professionals, and to the mismatch
between an organisations' view of the role of a librarian and that of the
incumbent, where the choice is to stay and try to change the organisational
culture, or to move on. There have always been challenges to CILIP members in
the workplace, who need to educate incoming managers on their role, but there
has been a recent spate of people struggling with the challenge of continuing to#p#分页标题#e#
provide a service, whilst needing to justify their role and inform the new
incumbent. Demonstrating value has never been more important.
WISP work progresses between meetings, and the Panel has agreed a wide range
of areas on which to focus it’s energy. Namely: benchmarking; understanding the
sector; pay and status; and the Jason Farradane Award.
Lyndsay attended the House of Commons reception to say farewell to Alison
West as Chief Executive of the Community Development Foundation. Alison was
leaving to become Executive Director of the National Extension College, based in
Cambridge. It is a UK-wide distance learning charity, and Alison is keen to
maintain contact with CILIP, with a view to partnership working in the future.
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Progressing a key objective in the WISP Workplan to understand the sector, and
particularly to extend alliances, Lyndsay continues to liaise with groups such as
the Theatre Information Group (TIG) and SPRIG (which represents lis
professionals working in sports, recreation, tourism and leisure), attending a TIG
Meeting at the Tate Gallery on 28th March, and a SPRIG Committee meeting on
27th March.
Lyndsay attended a meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Publications
(SCOOP) Committee, where there was a presentation by The Stationary Office on
digital object identifiers.
Taxonomy Network
The Taxonomy Network, a network of librarians, records managers and IT
professionals, was launched in February 2003. The Taxonomy listserve, hosted
by jiscmail, shows steady healthy growth in numbers and conversations.
Over 50 people attended a second meeting of the Taxonomy Network, coorganised
by Mark Field, CILIP's Information & Knowledge Management Adviser,
at the Wellcome Trust on 10 September with Ruth Frost, Content Architect for
the Trust. During the meeting an attempt was made to 'taxonomise the
taxonomisers'; however, it was decided that this was a task for a dedicated work
group. Approximately 10 people a week are joining Items of interest are posted regularly and there have been a few early exchanges
of note on thesaurus-management software, and the definition of ‘taxonomy’
itself.
In September Mark organised a half-day workshop at the Public Sector
Knowledge Management conference with more than 190 delegates in
attendance. Participants listened to three presentations, including two wellreceived
presentations from CILIP Members on the developing knowledge
management programmes in two multi-disciplinary NHS organisations – a mental
health trust and a workforce development confederation. Information professional
attendance at this event was high; at least 25% of participants were CILIP
Members and produced some excellent workshop papers.#p#分页标题#e#
Mark gave the opening address, and ran a workshop on taxonomy design
and implementation at a 'Practical Taxonomies: A Framework for Knowledge
Management' conference in Amsterdam from 29 September to 1 October. It was
interesting to see that additional delegates at the conference chose to register for
the workshop, given that this required an extra day at the conference and
incurred an additional day's fee.
Mark also provided a half-day scoping meeting on the development of a
taxonomy for a university, resulting in library staff acquiring a new role as
'knowledge specialists' working closely with a specific department. In
collaboration with LPC colleagues, he also ran a workshop on combined
community service points for a unitary authority, which found that libraries were
the natural focus for new single spaces for multiple local authority services.
Freedom of Information
The Freedom of Information (FoI) Panel chaired by Linda Wishart has met twice
this year and is continuing to recruit new members with expertise in FoI services;
the scope and shape of the report of the FoI Panel has been agreed and early
contributions have been received. In October a half-day workshop on the
Freedom of Information Act for 40+ CILIP Members was held, seeking their
contributions to CILIP's policy on FOI; and, workshops.
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Information Literacy
A half-day brainstorming event on Information Literacy took place in June,
facilitated by CILIP's Past President, Sheila Corrall, with the aim to establish
common ground on the meaning of Information Literacy across library sectors. A
small Working Group met to formulate a definition and action plan that will be
introduced to the CILIP membership for discussion and comment.
Youth and Schools
Jonathan Douglas, previously CILIP’s Youth and Schools Adviser, was invited to
become a member of the Reading and Learning Expert Group, convened by
Resource to take forward those areas of the action plan being developed to enact
Framework for the Future. Whilst working for CILIP, he was responsible for
considerable areas of input to the plan, particularly around early years, reader
development and adult basic skills.
Following Jonathan Douglas' departure to his new post in Resource, interim
arrangements were put in place to cover the post of Youth and Schools Adviser.
Judith Howells, CILIP’s Assistant Adviser, Information, has been acting up into
the post of Youth and Schools Adviser with a brief to undertake responsibility for
the Youth and Schools Panel, maintain a profile within the sector and to deal
with casework and enquiries on a daily basis. To help Judith to continue to
oversee advocacy work and toolkit developments in her own area of public
libraries, Damien McManus, Assistant Information Manager, Information#p#分页标题#e#
Services, has been acting up into a support role to Judith to ensure that these
functions continue.
Together with members from the YASP Panel, Judith used case studies from
Members to identify the key skills and competences, needed to work effectively in
youth and schools work. The results were fed into the Framework of
Qualifications work on the Body of Professional Knowledge and have proved
useful to Members for developing job specifications/job descriptions.
Judith and representatives from the School Library Association and ASCEL met
with the National Association for Travellers to discuss ways of making libraries
more inclusive to traveller children. Work was also carried out with the British
Council on developing their libraries' provision for young people and with the
Campaign for Learning on family learning.
Early Years
Natasha Innocent, CILIP's Early Years Library Development Manager, completed
the first of her project's activities, mapping the contribution of libraries to the early
years sector to create the Early Years Library Network. The network now has 100
plus members from over 60 UK library authorities and will deliver training,
support and professional development for early years library staff whose posts
have been funded by recent early years social and education initiatives. The
project, which will take three years to complete, has been funded by the Esmee
Fairbairn Foundation.
‘Start with the Child’ research project
The research commissioned by CILIP and Resource and funded by Resource to
support the “Start with the Child” review was published. It argued for relevant
and responsive services for young people and produced in-depth models of
children’s needs at different stages in their developments and explored how
libraries, museums and archives can meet them. The research report was
produced by consultants Morris Hargreaves McIntyre, who worked with a team of
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child development experts, including child psychologists and marketing
specialists.
Many regions and branches launched the report of CILIP’s working party on
youth and school libraries with special seminars at which Jonathan Douglas
spoke. These included conferences and seminars organised by various branches
of the Youth & Libraries Group (YLG), a presentation at the Library and
Information Show 2003 and a paper at the joint CILIP Library Association of
Ireland Conference. In addition, a Start with the Child Regional Task Force was
convened by the North East Museums Libraries and Archives Council.
Support Staff Consultation
CILIP responded to the Department for Education and Skills (DfES’s) proposals
for the development of the role of school support staff. The consultation covered
school librarians as well as a wide range of other staff. The consultation proposes#p#分页标题#e#
plans to take forward the Government’s manifesto commitment and appoint
20,000+ support staff in the life of this Parliament. CILIP’s response argues
strongly that the Government needs to develop an approach which values the
variety of professionals within the school. It stresses the key role of the school
librarian and the unique role they play in teaching and learning in the school.
Copyright and Licensing
CILIP members have continued to contact Barbara Stratton for professional
advice on copyright and licensing matters. LACA and MCG are developing
information and advice to issue in autumn 2003 concerning the UK
implementation of the Copyright Directive. The LACA web pages at
also provide information about current copyright issues.
Equal Opportunities
In line with CILIP's commitment to Equal Opportunities, a new CILIP Equal
Opportunities Briefing on Library and Information Services to Older People now
joins six other briefings, available from the website at
A cross sectoral working group has
now formed to produce the next Briefing, relating to cultural diversity.
Criminal Record Bureau Checking Guidance
In response to wide spread concerns about child safety CILIP revised its
guidelines promoting safety for children in public libraries – “A Safe Place for
Children”. The revision added a substantial section for guidance on Criminal
Records Bureau checking for public library staff who come into contact with
children or vulnerable adults.
Conferences
An 'Outsourcing' Conference held at Ridgmount Street in June presented over 30
delegates with a range of views on the benefits and dangers in outsourcing
library and information services.
A successful one-day conference on 'Libraries and Regeneration' was held in
Birmingham where 25 heads of library services from local authorities across
Britain listened to Lord Rogers and Lord Rooker speak about current work taking
place in Tower Hamlets, Glasgow and Birmingham.
CILIP and libraries were represented by Jonathan Douglas, previously CILIP's
Youth & Schools Adviser, at the joint DfES and DCMS Creativity and the
Curriculum conference hosted by Charles Clarke and Tessa Jowell at the
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Barbican. The conference announced the government's renewed commitment to
supporting creative activities for young people, particularly through the Creative
Partnerships initiative. Libraries are demonstrating through pilots (particularly in
the Slough project) that they have a key role to play in this policy strand.
The DCMS reader development conference in July, which CILIP assisted in
planning, reflected on the legacy of the DCMS/Wolfson reader development#p#分页标题#e#
projects and launched a discussion about the evaluation and definition of reader
development which was concluded at the Public Library Authorities Conference
in September.
Other activities
The Prison Libraries Group officially launched the new edition of the Prison
Libraries Training Pack at the PLG AGM in May.
In November 2003, Mark provided advice to the Charles Dickens Museum on
the specification and recruitment of a librarian and gave a presentation on the
future of librarian education to a group of library and information science
educators from the former Soviet Union at City University.
Presentations by the Advisers
The Advisers from MCQ were involved in a total of 57 events for Members and
non-Members during this period, including Registration events for both
candidates and supervisers, national conferences of partner organisations, careers
events and those run by external organisations and groups. This compares to a
total of 59 events for the same period last year.
Mark Field, CILIP's Information & Knowledge Management Adviser, spoke on the
future role of information professionals at a meeting of the Information Managers
in the Pharmaceutical Industry. He also led a discussion on Knowledge
Management (KM) for the Youth and Schools Panel (YASP) and facilitated KM
workshops for Master’s students at Loughborough University and for the
Education Librarians Group who produced cases for librarian leadership of KM. In
addition, he ran a workshop on ‘Librarians and Knowledge Management’ for the
Government Libraries Group.
A 2-day workshop was run in April on ‘Taxonomy’ at Content Management
Connect in Brussels. This was a high level corporate event with strong interest in
this area of the LIS sector’s skill set, and networks were established with
librarians on the programme. To follow up, Mark Field hosted a meeting attended
by librarians, records managers and IT professionals where it was agreed that a
Taxonomy network be established with CILIP setting up a Taxonomy mailing list
and further Taxonomy meetings; plus a half-day session on Taxonomy for
Cranfield College, Shrivenham.
Mark gave the opening address, and ran a workshop on taxonomy design
and implementation at a 'Practical Taxonomies: A Framework for Knowledge
Management' conference in Amsterdam from 29 September to 1 October. It was
interesting to see that additional delegates at the conference chose to register for
the workshop, given that this required an extra day at the conference and
incurred an additional day's fee.
Mark presented on 'The Future of the Information Professions' to a meeting of
Information Managers in the Pharmaceutical Industry (IMPI) on 12 September.
In the ensuing discussion it was apparent that IMPI shared very similar concerns#p#分页标题#e#
to CILIP on subjects including Knowledge Management, Freedom of Information,
taxonomy, and support for continuing learning.
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Mark Field led workshops at HM Treasury on Communities of Practice (CoPs),
using examples from his experience of working as a construction industry
librarian – a report on CoPs can be found on the internet at org/downloads/six_questions_cop.pdf
In October Mark ran a half-day workshop on the Freedom of Information Act for
40+ CILIP Members, seeking their contributions to CILIP's policy on FOI; and,
workshops on knowledge management at the CILIP One-Day Conference for
postgraduate students at Loughborough University and at City University. He also
ran a knowledge management course for librarians in Further Education at
Stevenage College; a course on librarianship and knowledge management for
BBOB in January 2004; a workshop on “Embedding Metrics for Information
Compliance in Business Process” at “Compliance Connect”; and a taxonomy
workshop for postgraduate students at Liverpool John Moores University.
During January 2004, Mark attended a 3-day Public Sector Information
Strategies conference, running a one-day workshop on Frameworks for IM
strategy. He also attended the BIALL Council at the Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies, at which it was agreed to establish a firm, but informal conduit of
communication between CILIP and BIALL.
Kathy Ennis has made a number of presentations including ‘New Lamps for Old:
or Aladdin finds light at the end of the tunnel’ at the CoFHE Conference,
Edinburgh, April 2003 and Impression Management, CILIP East of England,
Papworth, May 2003.
Lyndsay Rees-Jones gave the opening presentation entitled Advocacy in a
(often?) hostile environment, at the CoFHE Mid-West Circle Advocacy day held at
Reading College in April. It provided an opportunity to discuss the role of
advocacy in CILIP's mission to enhance the status of it's members and the wider
profession, and the role of the individual.
The CILIP NW Branch AGM was held at Liverpool Central Library in April, and
Lyndsay Rees-Jones attended as the CILIP liaison officer. After the official AGM
business, Clare Conner (currently Director, Libraries North West – soon to be
Director, NWMLAC) gave a presentation as incoming Branch Chair. Lyndsay then
gave a presentation entitled 276 Days and Counting – where next for CILIP
where she focussed on governance; structure; space (in terms of Ridgmount
Street, regional networks, and web presence); achievements to date and tasks
ahead. She then facilitated a discussion and urged participants to commit their
ideas and wishes to paper, so that they could be remembered and attended to
later
In May Lyndsay ran a session on pay and status for GLIS (Gloucestershire#p#分页标题#e#
Special Librarians Group), and the issue formed a key thread to the presentation
that she gave to the SLA (Special Libraries Association) Conference in June in
New York. Entitled Advocacy – Pay, Status, Skills and Competencies, the session
was an opportunity to inform a wider audience of the work of CILIP and consider
the potential for closer working. One of the exercises that Lyndsay has run in
many of her workshops/seminars is “draw a librarian”, and this was no
exception. It was reassuring to see that similar themes and characteristics
cropped up on the other side of the Atlantic. As with all other images, Lyndsay
has been developing a database of these images, and using them to illustrate our
ability to laugh at ourselves and re-think the stereotypes that we are faced with.
Lyndsay Rees-Jones hosted an InForum meeting at CILIP in July. InForum is an
informal discussion group which Lyndsay launched within the UKSG umbrella in
the late 1990s. The session focussed on the role of serials agents and
particularly the relationship between the ‘librarian’ in the workplace and their
agent.
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Lyndsay also spent two days at the Online Conference in December, supporting
colleagues on the CILIP stand, and attending the Special Libraries Association
(SLA) Breakfast Meeting where the new SLA President, Cindy Hill, and Chief
Executive, Janice Lachance were present. This was an excellent opportunity to
re-establish contact with SLA. Michael Martin gave two career and CPD
presentations.
In the spring and summer Barbara Stratton chaired a copyright meeting
organised by the Industrial and Commercial Libraries Group (ICLG) and the Aslib
Economics and Business Information Group (AEBIG) and participated in a panel
at an ARLIS day copyright conference. She also gave presentations about the UK
implementation of the Copyright Directive to the JISC e-Copyright Workshop held
in Manchester, UC&R London, East Anglian Online User Group and Bristol
University.
The People's Network Managing Change Toolkit was successfully launched at the
CILIP stand at Umbrella. It was the result of partnership working between CILIP,
MLA and the Networked Services Policy Task Group, with funding by NOF. It is a
flexible tool, which has attracted considerable interest. Free to download from the
preferred, a trainer-supported
session to introduce the Toolkit can be organised via the Training and
Development Department of CILIP. Judith Howells was closely involved in the
development and rollout of the Toolkit, which is now being tested further with#p#分页标题#e#
pilots in several public library authorities in England and Northern Ireland.
Judith Howells gave a presentation on current library issues to 35 Flemish
librarians on an English study tour
Jonathan Douglas presented a training session for school librarians from South
London in Bromley, at an Oftsed training day in Winchester, and at a Key Stage
3 training day for librarians in Warwickshire. He also chaired debates at the
Cheltenham Literature Festival and at the Young Readers UK Festival in
Birmingham. He also chaired a Study Support training day for North East YLG
and with Lyndsay Rees-Jones, CILIP’s Workplace & Solo Adviser, delivered a
CDG session for librarians in Bexley, Kent.
Jonathan Douglas participated in a key DCMS/DfES seminar which examined the
role of libraries in the Government’s Creative Partnership initiative. The £40
million project aims to support young people’s creativity by sponsoring new
initiatives in schools and the wider community. CILIP is lobbying for the role of
libraries in the programmes.
Surveys and research projects
The UK Survey of College Library / Learning Resource Provision 2003 was
conducted on behalf of CILIP by the Information Management Research Institute
(IMRI) of Northumbria University. Questionnaires were distributed to 495
colleges in the UK in January and the survey reached a good response rate of
59%. The IMRI team undertook the data analysis and a Steering Group made up
of practitioners from across the UK oversaw the whole process of the Survey.
The Survey identifies a number of issues that indicate problems of status and
influence of librarians working in the sector as well as an ad hoc and
inconsistent approach to funding.
The results were posted on the CILIP website in the first week of September – to
coincide with the start of the new academic year. The survey gained coverage in
both The Guardian (Education section) and the TES. CoFHE will use the results
to identify standards and benchmarks for the sector in the next edition of the
CoFHE Guidelines due to be published in April 2004.
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As a result of the publication of the Survey Kathy Ennis and Graham Walton,
Survey Project Team Leader, met with Sue Howley and Simon Matty from MLA
in September. MLA is keen to take the findings forward under its' WILIP (Wider
Information & Library Initiatives Project) initiative. A number of meetings have
been arranged in the next few months to determine next steps.
A number of small-scale reader development projects are taking place in a
number of college / university libraries. The aim of this work is to determine
whether the reader development techniques used so successfully in the public
library sector can be used to develop literacy in post-16 formal education. Kathy#p#分页标题#e#
Ennis is overseeing the work of the colleges / universities involved.
Work has taken place with a range of members to gain informal feedback on how
CILIP interacts with the working lives of their members, information which has
been fed into the development and delivery of services to members.
MSD organised a 1-day survey across CILIP to contribute to evidence about the
range and value of the work of all staff when responding to enquiries. Contact
received from individuals and organisations outside of CILIP by telephone,
facsimile, e:mail, letter or face-to-face was recorded and snapshot anecdotes
from the survey were fed into Members' Day events. 368 enquiries/contacts were
received across CILIP and 62% of calls were from members. The content of calls
ranged from employment related enquiries; calls on developing content for the
CILIP web site; support for those wishing to charter; responses to proposed
legislation affecting the library and information environment; supplying the media
with information relating to LIS; discussion on research commissioned by CILIP;
the Gala Awards day; the Carnegie Greenaway Awards; requests for CILIP reports
and publications; organisation of events and conferences; plus general
administration, finance and buildings enquiries.
A call for participants in the WISP Benchmarking Network for Workplace
Libraries was sent out in January. The Benchmarking Network will be run as a
Pilot exercise and evaluated during 2004. Solo operations will not participate in
this pilot phase as the burden of work required of Network members could be
quite onerous, and have a significantly greater impact on them. It is intended
that lessons learnt will be translated to have an applicability for all services.
In partnership with the School Library Association, ASCEL and the DfES, Judith
Howells continued with the roll out of the School Libraries Advocacy Project,
which has now been extended until June 2004. A further grant was obtained
from DfES for a reprint of the Advocacy Brochure School Libraries: Making a
Difference thus allowing every school library to have a copy to use within their
school. Professor Tim Brighouse, Commissioner for London Schools, drew
attention to both the brochure and the campaign at a special promotional event
on 15 December 2003 at the school library in Mount Carmel School, Islington.
There was a good response to this and attendees included journalists from the
Guardian and the Times Educational Supplement.
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Overview
This annual review marks the tenth anniversary of Enterprises. During its ten
years, the businesses have gone from strength to strength and have generated
over £28m of income, making a contribution of nearly £6m to the LA and CILIP.
While income generation is a key objective for the Enterprises, all our trading#p#分页标题#e#
activities are “primary purpose” in that they contribute in a wide variety of ways
to CILIP’s charitable objectives.
CILIP continues to be heavily dependent on the Enterprises as one of its major
income streams and it is important that its contribution remains at least steady
or, preferably, continues to increase.
The success of CILIP Enterprises has depended on a number of factors:
• maintaining a portfolio of different businesses so that those enjoying a period
of financial success can offset those having a more difficult time until the
pendulum swings in the other direction;
• ensuring high standards for all our products and services; matched with fair
and competitive pricing;
• recruiting and retaining dedicated and motivated teams of specialist staff;
• identifying and meeting market needs and reaching our markets effectively;
• continuing creativity and innovation.
Strong foundations have been laid for further development.
Turning to the period April 2003 to March 2004, the latter half of the period saw
an improvement in trading conditions and it was pleasing to note that the final
result for the 2003 financial year was better than budget.
Teams from the different Enterprises have continued to work well together,
particularly on the marketing front, as well as with colleagues in other
directorates. Working closely with the finance department, the teams have
tightened up very effectively on credit control. There has also been some
excellent collaboration with Marketing on a range of activities and particularly on
exhibition attendance.
It is imperative that in all aspects of our businesses CILIP is seen to follow best
practice. We have continued to be aware of data protection legislation and to
ensure we observe this carefully, particularly in our direct marketing activity.
INFOmatch have had to keep abreast of the requirements of the Criminal Records
Bureau, whilst also wrestling with a number of new aspects of legislation relating
to recruitment agencies.
Our most important innovation during this period was the launch of Gazette. This
new member magazine is proving a tremendous success and advertising income
in its first three months was significantly better than budget and considerably
above that for the same period last year.
This is my last annual review, as I shall be retiring in the summer, and I would
like to pay tribute to my colleagues and to thank all those Members who, through
Boards and Committees and in numerous other ways, have proved so supportive
to me and the Enterprises.
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enterprise
Facet Publishing
A modest spring programme featured reprints and new editions of some
strong recently published titles: Know it All – Find it Fast (Duckett,
Walker and Donnelly), Complete Guide to Preparing and Implementing#p#分页标题#e#
Service Level Agreements (Pantry & Griffiths), and Essential
Cataloguing.
May saw the publication of Reading and Reader Development (Elkin,
Train and Denham), which was well reviewed in the TES; Information and IT
Literacy (Marian and Rader) was published in July; and the CILIP Yearbook
2003-4 and Essential Law for Information Professionals (Pedley) in August. In
September the 2003 update of AACR was released (available both as a complete
text and with the 2003 amendments on their own). Information Architecture
(Gilchrist and Mahon), co-published with TFPL, was launched at Online in
December, to considerable critical acclaim.
Late 2003 saw an intensive period of development work for the Facet Publishing
team with Helen Carley, Publishing Director, leading on the commissioning and
planning of a strong programme for 2004. Excellent progress was made on the
New Walford. Ray Lester, the General Editor, has worked closely with us on this
major project, involving the development of a complex database system to
support the work, and on selecting, briefing and closely advising the new subject
specialists. Volume I – Science, Technology and Medicine – is due for
publication in September 2004.
Our new distribution arrangements in North America via Neal-Schuman seem to
be working well, and we have also continued to buy in some titles from them for
distribution in our markets.
A number of marketing initiatives including an e-bulletin to on-line subscribers
have helped maximise the sales potential of each title. Orders received through
the website are increasing steadily and relationships with regular customers are
developing. Our list of top ten titles and sample chapters have consistently been
the pages on the website that receive the most hits. We were also delighted that
in a recent survey by a LIS-LINK subscriber on how libraries find out about
books, the recommended online services included Facet Publishing. This ecommerce
activity is also instrumental in helping us reach those overseas
markets where we are not currently proactive.
We have continued to sell foreign language rights to a number of our titles,
which, apart from providing us with a small but steady additional income stream,
represents an added bonus for authors and helps them gain international
recognition.
2004 has begun strongly with the publication of seven titles, including Sandy
Norman's Practical Copyright for Information Professionals; Booth and Brice's
Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals and The CILIP Guidelines
for Secondary Schools. 13,000 copies of the new catalogue of titles for this year
have been mailed around the world. A new agent for South and Central America
has been appointed with reasonable prospects for adding to the minimal income
currently being generated in these territories.#p#分页标题#e#
Training and Development
The department had another very successful year.
Between April 2003 and March 2004, 76 short courses were run (five of which
were 2-day courses), and over one third were new. The programme continued to
be wide-ranging with the introduction of new events alongside those established
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ones that are still in demand. Introduced during this period were Essential law for
library and information workers; Cutting-edge Internet search techniques;
Recruiting, managing and developing volunteers, and Selecting electronic
products, to name just a few.
Booking levels have averaged well over 80 per cent and thus are getting better
and better. This is thanks to the very careful evaluation of market needs in
designing the courses, the excellent reputation that the programme has gained
and the focused marketing activity. In January 2004 CILIP was named the
training provider of choice in a survey carried out for the journal, Business
Information Review, beating TFPL and ASLIB to this position.
Susie Hordern joined us in April as Marketing Executive and she has been fully
exploiting the opportunities offered by e-marketing, as well as producing the
2004 course directory which is available both in printed format and in pdf on the
CILIP website. We also launched the Training e-bulletin at the beginning of 2004
and already have 500 subscribers. The new T & D column in Gazette has proved
popular, giving our trainers the opportunity to expand on topics of current interest
to our members.
The NOF ICT Training Programme for school librarians finished in December.
Over 700 school librarians have been trained on the programme and we were
delighted that in a letter from the Teacher Training Agency, Penny Simmonds
and her team were thanked for their “exemplary contribution to the success of
the programme”. One satisfied participant wrote, “ I shall endeavour to complete
my evidence boxes but even if I don’t…, I want you to know what a difference
working through the modules has made to my job, professional development and
job satisfaction.”
The local authorities with whom we have contracted for the NOF-funded ICT
programme for public librarians, are making steady progress through expected
outcomes 2-8, in applying ICT in the public library context. A user group meeting
presented some very positive feedback as to the measurable effects this training
was having on staff, which extended well beyond the actual IT learning to
empowerment and increased motivation.
We have been very successful with the Advanced Roles programme which has
been run all over the country, and demand for this training has necessitated
setting more dates to re-run the events well into 2004. This NOF-funded
Advanced Roles training, which is open to all public librarians who have met#p#分页标题#e#
expected outcomes 2-8 consists of four topics: Net Navigator, IT Gatekeeper,
Information Consultant and Information Manager.
In addition to all the above activity the team has also run a number of on-site
courses for a wide range of different clients all over the country. Demand –
generally for courses from our regular programme – seems to be increasing and
many clients return with repeat business.
Library and Information Update
Update has completed a second successful year, to accolades from many
readers. ‘Exceptionally interesting – it takes me much longer to read these days’
and ‘It really is awfully good’ are typical of the unsolicited appreciation received.
Authors too are almost invariably pleased with the treatment of their material – a
must for maintaining a productive long-term relationship with contributors.
Increasingly, Update is seen as a serious medium for a measured discussion of
the issues of the day. Its credibility among members is growing, thanks to the
high standards, range and variety of offering from contributors and staff.
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Update’s design and format when it was launched in April 2002 successfully
established a break with the past. Many members who had neglected their
professional journal in recent years were persuaded to look again. They have
stayed to join a growing community of active readers who add weight to
professional debate.
Since the last Annual Report two themed issues have appeared, the first on
Records Management in August, and ‘Children and Information Services’ in
January 2004. But throughout the year, Update has tackled a host of currently
urgent themes: from the professional (changes in professional education,
mentoring, job shadowing, information literacy) to the technical, including web
site accessibility, information architecture, e-science, and space planning for
libraries and knowledge working. And we have not forgotten the more traditional
concerns, such as service modernisation, and librarians’ role in education – from
basic skills to e-learning, special collections and reader development. Not to
mention risk management, partnership working, Freedom of Information, and
other hot topics in government, management and business circles.
In its coverage of the news Update continues to analyse key developments in
public policy and explore their implications for library and information services.
In January, when all product advertising moved into the new Gazette, Update
had its first design face-lift.
We continue to be indebted to our regular columnists: Bernard Naylor, Phil
Bradley and Edward Dudley, and to Laura Swaffield for hilarious light relief in
Mediawatching. Special thanks are due to Diana Dixon, our indefatigable and
endlessly knowledgeable Book Reviews editor. We are grateful, too, to the#p#分页标题#e#
individuals who agree to be profiled. Thanks too to the whole community of our
contributors, to all who have sent us news, comment, letters, as well as features
or an occasional guest column, and to our Editorial Board who provide invaluable
user feedback. Finally, thanks to the regular staff who bring everything together,
making Update a powerful advocacy tool for the profession at large. Update is as
effective as it is because readers share insights with their peers for the greater
good. Long may they continue to do so.
Advertising
In the first half of 2003, income to both Update and Appointments fell
significantly below budget because of the stagnation in both the commercial and
jobs’ market. This led us to reforecast our figures for the year. Fortunately,
however, by early autumn the market began to pick up and our end of year
results were much better than we had feared, even though cuts in advertising
budgets and the weakness of the US dollar continued to have adverse effects on
the market.
During 2003 a considerable amount of work was done developing Gazette, our
new fortnightly tabloid magazine for CILIP Members. This was launched in
January 2004 and, to date, advertising sales have far exceeded our budgets and
our expectations. We have moved the commercial advertising from Update and
the recruitment advertising from Appointments into Gazette. The latter has
proved particularly successful.
Debby Raven, as Editor of Gazette, has done an excellent job helping us with its
development and now putting together the editorial pages. The content includes
far more branch and group news than there was space for in Update, together
with CILIP general news. Coverage is also given to training, employment and
career issues. Product news focusing on products and services features in Supply
Line. General response from both readers and advertisers has been very
favourable.
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The Buyers’ Guide Directory, which appears quarterly, still attracts a consistent
level of advertising sales and the content is also searchable on-line.
INFOmatch
We currently have a team of four full time staff, having successfully recruited a
new Assistant Recruitment Consultant and a part time administration assistant.
The latter is waiting to take an LIS qualification at City University and currently
also works part time with CILIP Consultancy Services, so brings an extra
dimension of expertise to the department.
The last part of the calendar year showed the expected upturn in income, partly
due to an increase in salary rates for many posts, which was far higher than
projected. We are very pleased to have been successful in negotiating better pay
for many posts and ensuring long term temporary workers were included in pay
rises awarded to the permanent staff they work alongside.#p#分页标题#e#
We have advertised in the journal of the Australian Library and Information
Association to attract those wishing to work while travelling, and utilised the
CILIP special interest group newsletters to attract candidates for specific posts,
such as science and arts based roles.
The staff have been involved in the upgrade of the specialist recruitment software
and much effort has been generated in ensuring compliance with new legislation
governing many aspects of employment, which came into force in April 2004.
This protects the workforce, demands more of them in terms of proving identity
and competence for the job and adds to our administration. We are now
registered as signatories with the Criminal Records Bureau to enable us to carry
out enhanced checks which not only protect vulnerable adults and children but
also the reputation of our candidates and clients. The checks even extend to
those involved with storytelling and the handling of sensitive archive material, for
example. Another significant area of work has been tendering for the sole supply
of library and information staff to public, private and academic workplaces, a
trend that is on the increase.
Other activity has been concentrated in two main areas:
• Events take much organisation but are generally worthwhile for both parties.
We are planning for Temporary Workers Week to raise the importance of these
workers, the Career Development Group activities enable us to meet those
further on in their careers, and our presence at the London Book Fair, Online,
Awards Days, Umbrella and activities such as the careers seminar we ran for
the London Branch enabled us to meet a wide range of people in the
profession, reflecting its diverse nature. We have been planning and carrying
out visits to all the universities running information courses, in most cases this
includes a presentation as well as interviewing students who will be job
seeking in the near future. It is also useful to talk to the departmental staff
about trends in the profession.
• Advice: We now have a regular column in each issue of Gazette – entitled
‘Working Wisdom’ – covering a range of topical practical advice from filling in
forms and CV gaffes, to making the most of a recruitment agency. The web
page is now maintained within the department and includes instant access to
our ‘How To …’ series of publications and forms for the benefit of both clients
and candidates. We work with and for our colleagues in other departments to
maintain a comprehensive service, especially to CILIP Members and potential
members.
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Conferences
The last year has been a busy one for the Department due to an increased
workload and a reduction in staffing levels. The Department now has two
members of staff, Joan Thompson, Head of Conferences, and Clare Tandy,#p#分页标题#e#
Conference & Exhibition Coordinator.
We have managed many regular events and become involved with the
organisation of more CILIP events, as well as introducing new initiatives to our
portfolio in line with our current Business Plan and to meet the aims of the
Corporate Plan.
Regular Events
Umbrella 2003
The department was responsible for the marketing and publicity, administration,
registration, social events and plenary speakers for the Umbrella conference,
which was held once again at UMIST in Manchester (3-5 July).
The programme itself was planned by the CILIP Special Interest Groups,
supported and coordinated by Bernard Naylor as Director of Studies. A number of
groups collaborated on sessions and the whole programme proved to be very
varied and was well received.
Social events included a repeat of the popular East Lancashire steam train ride
and, new for 2003, both a dinner dance at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and a dinner
at the Imperial War Museum North. Karaoke, a delightful string quartet (for the
more inhibited) and a poetry reading by prize-winning poet Paul Farley all
featured on the first evening.
The three plenaries, one on each day of the conference, were equally varied. We
were fortunate to have Mark Wood, the newly appointed Chair of Resource, give
the introductory plenary; Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, who
had not long been in post, gave a thought-provoking talk on the Friday; and Val
McDermid, the crime writer, proved a lively after-lunch speaker on the final day.
The whole event went very smoothly. Despite the increase in marketing activity,
numbers were down on previous years – just short of 900 in all, including
exhibitors and exhibition visitors. We were, however, very pleased by the high
number of ‘First-Timers’ – 134 – demonstrating that Umbrella is still an attractive
formula and one that does appeal to newer members of the profession. The
reduction in numbers seems to be the result of cutbacks in training budgets, the
fact that the NOF ICT training has involved the public library sector in significant
additional training commitments and that generally many libraries are unable to
release staff for the 2-3 days involved. Forty-five companies and organisations
featured in the exhibition.
PLA Conference
The Department organised another successful Public Library Authorities
conference in Torquay in September which was attended by 259 delegates. The
numbers were slightly down on 2002, but higher than the previous Torquay
event in 2001. The first evening featured the PLG Building Awards, sponsored by
Point 8. There were four categories, and representatives from each winning
authority were present to collect their scroll and cheque. The Conference Dinner
was held on the second evening. The Mayor of Torbay hosted a pre-dinner#p#分页标题#e#
reception and Lord Andrew McIntosh of Haringey, the Minister for Media and
Heritage, spoke after dinner. For the final evening’s entertainment we organised a
casino night which proved very enjoyable.
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Suppliers’ Day
From the feedback we received after Suppliers’ Day 2003 we knew the Suppliers
wanted to find out more about our members and how to increase their business
with them. This year we had two speakers to talk about procurement, one from
the public sector – David Allen, Libraries & Heritage Manager, Swindon Borough
Council – and the other from the academic sector – Dr Paul Ayris, Director of
Library Services, University College London. Bob McKee also gave an update on
CILIP.
We were pleased to attract almost 60 suppliers throughout the day.
Suppliers’ Network
Membership of Suppliers Network had been decreasing, but the first few months
of 2004 have seen several additions. We believe the reason for the renewed
interest is in part due to Gazette – which is not available on subscription – and
also to the Systems & Services Showcase (see below under New Events) .
CILIP Events
Changes in personnel and staff restructuring at Ridgmount Street have resulted in
the department taking on the organisation of some of CILIP’s regular events.
Members’ Day
Once again the afternoon programme for Members Day (23 October) took place
at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS). We acted as the liaison
with SOAS, and registered participants for the morning workshops and the day in
the general. In all 162 people were registered.
The Past President’s Lunch
Once again this event took place at the Berner’s Hotel. The new timing (of a
lunch rather than a dinner) proved very popular and an enjoyable time was had
by all.
New Events
World Library and Information Congress (formerly IFLA) 2003
We were successful in securing from the Department of Trade & Industry support
for British companies exhibiting in Berlin at the World Library and Information
Congress in August, and ten companies took advantage of this support which
took the form of a financial subsidy towards the cost of exhibiting. Ideally we
would have liked to have all the companies located together in a recognisable
group, but the confusing layout of the exhibition did not lend itself to this
approach.
Systems & Services Showcase
The first Showcase was held on 11 March, and attracted 13 exhibitors and
approximately 60 visitors. The event was free to visitors; companies paid to
exhibit and members of Suppliers Network benefited from a discounted exhibiting
rate. The majority of visitors were preparing to purchase and were seeking
information to inform their decision, so this provided an opportunity to have indepth#p#分页标题#e#
conversations and demonstrations. The Showcase was a great success and
we are looking to repeat it on a regular basis.
Libraries by Design Workshops
Through the Library Buildings Project Steering Group we were invited, together
with the Training & Development Department, to organise and run a series of
workshops – entitled ‘Libraries by Design’ – funded by the Museums, Libraries
and Archives Council (MLA). These workshops are aimed at frontline staff to help
them use their space creatively and effectively. To give access to all Authorities,
we have sourced venues in each region, with each authority invited to send two
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members of staff. To date two workshops have taken place, and the series ends
in July.
CILIP Consultancy Services
CILIP Consultancy Services’ second year of business built on the base of projects
we won during our first year of operation. In 2003 we expanded the network of
associate consultants, which enables us to respond to project opportunities.
CILIP Consultancy Services provides high-quality management consultancy
services to the library and information sector so that organisations can manage
their information resources more effectively. We also work in areas where core
library and information skills are relevant but not always recognised, such as
records management, information retrieval and content management.
In the last year many of our clients in the government sector have been
preoccupied with Freedom of Information implementation targets. We have been
able to help them with development of business classification schemes, strategic
advice on functional analysis, creation of publication schemes, and establishment
of file plans for EDRM systems.
Our consultants have completed a number of service reviews for workplace and
academic libraries, in particular reviewing staffing requirements for electronic
service delivery. This is a challenge facing many libraries where there is external
pressure on them to accelerate the move from print-based publications to
electronic sources.
Access issues and space planning were two key themes for public libraries and
our consultants undertook research and consultation exercises on behalf of
several clients.
Summer 2003 was very busy, developing opportunities and writing proposals,
and some of these turned into project work in the autumn.
Adjoa Boateng, our research assistant left to start her Information Science course
at City University. We are now sharing a research/administrator with INFOmatch.
We are continuing to market our services widely to members to make sure that
they are aware of what we do and are able to act as ambassadors for LIS
consultancy within their organisations. The Head of Consultancy Services, David
Haynes has been active publishing articles, giving courses, and facilitating#p#分页标题#e#
workshops. His book on Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval
will be published by Facet Publishing this summer.
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Governance
Work has continued to develop a strong regional based infrastructure for CILIP
and to ensure that all CILIP branches in England will be co-terminous with the
Regional Development Agencies by April 2004. Six of the nine English branches
went "live" on 1 April 2003 with the remaining 3 achieving co-terminosity on 1
April 2004.
Sue Brown has met with representatives from CILIP Branches in England to
discuss issues around future resources for Branches following the Haynes Report
and Framework of Qualifications proposals. Issues raised were discussed and
prioritised and it was agreed that the group would meet again to take these
forward. Clarification was given on what administrative support activities could
currently be funded as well as information on the role of the new post of Branch
and Group Co-ordinator which will act as a focus for sharing information as part
of the restructuring.
At its meeting in April, Council agreed a set of branch rules as part of the process
of aligning CILIP regulations with the Byelaws. A set of rules for CILIP SIGs was
agreed by Council in December.
In April Council agreed an application by LIRG, the Library and Research Group,
to become a Special Interest Group of CILIP.
Home Nations
The Home Nations Forum met in Glasgow in February and in Dublin in
November to discuss policy development and professional practice issues
common to the whole UK
Membership
Total Membership 22,689
Total UK Membership 21,591
Total UK Personal Membership 21,143
Associate 6,211
Fellow 933
Chartered 13,307
Affiliated 692
Supporting 29
UK Institutional Membership 402
Corporate Partners/Suppliers Network 17
Total Overseas Membership 1,098
Total Overseas Personal Membership 992
Overseas Associate 365
Overseas Fellow 114
Overseas Chartered 513
Overseas Institutional Membership 106
Members by Employment (leading categories)
Public libraries 5,482
Universities & colleges 3,818
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infrastructure
Industrial & commercial 1,752
Schools 1,593
Government 1,078
Medical & hospital 754
National 460
Professional & learned 234
Students 1,467
Unemployed 1,464
Retired 2,394
Not working in the library & information sector 856
Honorary Awards 2003-04
Honorary Fellowship
Rosemary A Adams BA DipLib MCLIP
Linda Perham JP MP BA MCLIP
Laura Shane Godbolt BA FCLIP
Dr Anthony Hugh Thompson MA FCLIP
Frank A Harris
Neil McClelland
Dr J A Muir Gray
Dr Chris Pond
Dr Seng Tee Lee
Certificates of Merit#p#分页标题#e#
None awarded
Honours Lists
The following National Honours were bestowed on members of CILIP and others
connected with the library and information profession during 2003-04
In the New Year's Honours List:
KNIGHTS BACHELOR
Gerrard Robinson, Chairman, Arts Council for England. For services to the Arts.
ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
Commander (CVO)
Priscilla Roberts, librarian and curator of the print room, royal collection, Windsor
Castle.
Lieutenant (LVO)
Hilary Neale, Information Officer, Government News Network (London).
ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL
Dame Commander (DBE)
Elisabeth Hoodless, CEO, Community Service Volunteers. For services to
volunteering.
Rabbi Julia Neuberger, CEO, Kings Fund. For services to the NHS and other
public bodies.
Commander (CBE)
Michael Frater, CEO, Telford & Wrekin Borough. For services to local government.
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Andrew Holt, Head of Information Services Group, Dept of Health.
Christopher Kitching, Secretary, Historical Manuscripts Commission. For services
to manuscript heritage.
Philip Pullman, author (and Chair of the Society of Authors' Management
Committee). For services to literature.
Officer (OBE)
Raymond Fletcher, Personnel Director, Remploy. For services to disabled people.
Maurice Frankel, Director, Campaign for Freedom of Information. For services to
open government.
Richard Gibbon, lately head of engineering collections, National Railway
Museum. For services to museums.
Vivien Griffiths, Vice Chair, The Reading Agency. For services to libraries and
lifelong learning in Birmingham. (CILIP member)
Shan Wilkinson, Leader, Wrexham Borough Council (and young person specialist
librarian with Cheshire County Library Service).
Member (MBE)
Shiraz Durrani, Strategy and Communications Officer at Merton libraries. For
services to public libraries. (CILIP member)
Jennifer Griffiths, District Information Officer, Jobcentre Plus, Department for
Work and Pensions.
Judith Hunter, hon. Curator, Windsor Museum Group. For services to museums.
Andy Worthington, CEO, Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management. For
services to sports administration.
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours:
ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL
Commander (CBE)
Christopher Nigel Banks, chair, Learning and Skills Council’s young people’s
learning committee and chair, London Employers’ Coalition, services to young
people and the unemployed
Christopher Paul Brearley, director, methodology and information, social services
inspectorate, Department of Health
Professor Peter Thomas Kirstein, professor of computer systems, University
College London, services to internet research
Professor Hermione Lee, writer and academic, services to literature#p#分页标题#e#
Iain Macleod McMillan, director, CBI Scotland, services to lifelong learning
Officer (OBE)
Isadora Joye Aiken, governor, Sheffield Hallam University, services to education
and to the community
Pek Lan Bower, head, library and information services, Department of Health
(CILIP member)
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Professor Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, poet, services to literature
Anne Fine, Children’s Laureate, services to literature
Colin Sidney George, chair, Lifelong Learning Foundation, services to vocational
education and human resource development
Helene Roberte Mitchell, project manager, astronomy project, National Maritime
Museum, services to museum education
Member (MBE)
Rosemary Annette Adams, services to libraries in Northern Ireland (CILIP
member)
Francis Houlston Annett, education research manager, Learning and Skills
Council, services to training and education in the North East
Vivienne Jane Bennett, lately project director, Imperial War Museum North,
Manchester, services to museums
Katherine Vera Bligh, lately archivist, House of Lords
Richard Donald Davies, archivist of the Russian Archive, Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds, services to Anglo-Russian scholarship
Mehru Fitter, manager, multicultural library services, Coventry, services to the
community (CILIP member)
Imelda Shelley, research information officer, Wales Tourist Board, services to
tourism
Martin Ansdell-Smith, senior network analyst, information services division,
Department for Education and Skills
Bryen Norman David Wood, honorary curator, Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
Obituary
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has been
informed of the deaths of the following members during 2003.
Albon, Ruth Grace
Andrews, John Charles
Anthony, L J
Arkley, Rita
Austin, Yvonne
Balmforth, Colin Kershaw
Barlow, Sydney Hatton
Beer, Ralph Nathaniel
Beeston, Marion
Bell, Margaret Dewar
Bergna, Joan
Binns, Norman Evan
Blake, Elizabeth J
Bolton, Muriel
Brennan, Maeve Maureen
Brown, William Hunter
Bryant, Betty Audrey
Bryon, John Frederick Walter
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Buchan, Pamela Mary
Buchanan, Richard
Cann, Jennifer Carol
Cannon, Leslie
Carr, Margaret Helen
Cawkell, Antony Edmund
Clark, Berna Christine
Collins, Nora MacDonald
Cooke, Pamela Verrall
Cooper, Harold Francis
Corbett, Edmund Victor
Cornwell-Long, Ann
Cowper, Alexandrina Stewart
Dickinson, Peter John
Elliott, James Smith
Entwisle, Patricia Mary
Farrow, Russell Thomas Atholl
Ford, Jayne
Fox, Robert Victor
Fryer, Marion Ruth
Gates, Susan
Going, Mona Edgecombe
Goonetileke, Henry Alfred Ian#p#分页标题#e#
Gordon, Glennis Lesley
Greenhill, Reginald Albert
Grimshaw, Robert Edward
Hamilton, Catherine Delvin
Hare, Marlene Millicent
Hawkridge, Kathleen Mary
Hockey, Sidney Walter
Illsley, Robert William
Ker, Catherine Sylvia
Killey, Roy
Llewellyn, George
Mahoney, Denise Kay
McDougle, Annie(Nancie) Elizabeth E Elizabeth
Montgomery, Alan Charles
Naylor, Frederick
Naylor, John Antony
Noble, Marjorie
Nwikina, Gbole Nanu
Ogden, David Brian
Parish, Charles
Parr, Linda Jean
Piggott, Mary
Pinfold, Ronald Cecil
Pluse, John Michael
Pooley, Eileen Gladys
Rowson, Amanda Jane
Rudkin, Keith Andrew
Salvage, Dorothy Elsie Constance
Slator, Carl Henry
Spooner, Philip Vernon
Stalker, Margaret Munnoch
Steiner, William Anthony Frederick
Sturt, Ronald Ernest
Subrahmanyan, Mani
Sumsion, John W
Sykes, John
Taylor, Doreen Rose
Tillyard, Stephen
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Tooley, James Frederick Brian
Welbourn, Roy William
Welch, Dorothy Evelyn
White, Lionel
Whittall, S Jane
Willson, Eleanor Joan
Wright, David Robert Derek
Wright, Margaret Anne
Wright, Raymond
CILIP Branches
Much of CILIP’s most valuable work is carried out by branches in the English
regions and Home Nations. These reports from a selection of CILIP’s branches
give a flavour of the work they carried out in 2003-04.
Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire Branch
Events
The Annual General Meeting 2003 was held in May at Aylesbury Civic
Centre, and was concluded with an informal reception.
A midsummer evening cruise was held aboard a barge Norman Briggs
(branch councillor) captained the trip
An enjoyable visit to Oxford University Press took place in November. A guided
tour of OUP’s fascinating museum was followed by a reception and
demonstration of electronic reference products.
The annual Christmas visit to three Oxford college libraries gave members the
opportunity to see libraries not normally open to the public.
In January, the Knowledge Management seminar was led by Mark Field of CILIP
and provided an introduction to KM for branch members.
Initiatives
We spent time effectively updating our branch area of the CILIP website.
The new e-mail events list has been very succesful and is working well after all
the initial hard work in setting it up.
Our proudest achievement over the past year was joining the Thames Valley
Professional Institute Partnership (TVPIP). This alliance enables BBOB members
to attend TVPIP events, covering a wide range of professional issues. Website at:
www.tvpip.org/.
To conclude
This year the BBOB committee has been working, planning and preparing for the#p#分页标题#e#
transition to the new South East Branch of CILIP, and for BBOB’s own future role
as a sub-branch. In addition to this, BBOB has continued its programme of
events and has made some exciting initiatives.
Catherine Lidbetter Secretary
Ruth Hilbourne Chair
East of England Branch
The new East of England Branch committee held its inaugural meeting
in April 2003 with members from Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire,
Norfolk, Suffolk and Thurrock representing a range of library services –
public, academic, legal and government.
This first year has been one of transition, the committee running parallel with
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ELIPP (Eastern Library & Information Professionals Partnership) the previous
structure in the Eastern area. Under the umbrella of ELIPP, a programme of
training days was co-ordinated and the Website Working Group continued to
operate, allowing the Branch committee to concentrate on developing the Branch
role and future framework.
Major activities for 2003/4
• First edition of a new newsletter for the region produced – suggestions for a
suitable name are being considered.
• Questionnaires requesting feedback on what members would like from their
new Branch distributed – the results are currently being analysed.
• First meeting for members of the new region held in February 2004 – ‘Skilling
ourselves for the future: an opportunity to explore and influence the future of
the profession’.
• East of England Small Grants Fund launched – formal process for applying to
the Branch for financial assistance.
The first AGM of CILIP East of England Branch is being planned for June. This
will be held at the end of a half day training event ‘Knowledge Management :
learn about KM and how the new CILIP qualification framework can be
supported in the workplace’.
Jacky Offord, Secretary
North West Branch
This has been another successful year for the branch. We have a good committee
structure, and despite other commitments members attend regularly. The
Presidential Address was held in November at Liverpool John Moores University,
and attracted a large audience. We award annual student prizes, and have
supported members' attendance at meetings and conferences.
We had hoped to hold a weekend conference ourselves, but this is currently
in abeyance as costs appeared potentially very high.
We have established an email list of all NW members, and we send out regular
mailings about forthcoming events. This has been used by local special interest
groups. We have developed closer links with local groups and representatives
regularly attend branch committee meetings.
We have contributed to discussions about national issues such as the new
qualifications structure via emal, through our Branch Councillor and at informal#p#分页标题#e#
meetings.
Albert Hartley
Secretary
South East Branch
Events
The Annual General Meeting 2003 was held in May at Aylesbury Civic Centre,
and was concluded with an informal reception.
A midsummer evening cruise was held aboard a barge. Norman Briggs (branch
councillor) captained the trip
An enjoyable visit to Oxford University Press took place in November. A guided
tour of OUP’s fascinating museum was followed by a reception and
demonstration of electronic reference products.
The annual Christmas visit to three Oxford college libraries gave members the
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opportunity to see libraries not normally open to the public.
In January, the Knowledge Management seminar was led by Mark Field of CILIP
and provided an introduction to KM for branch members.
Initiatives
We spent time effectively updating our branch area of the CILIP website.
The new e-mail events list has been very succesful and is working well after all
the initial hard work in setting it up.
Our proudest achievement over the past year was joining the Thames Valley
Professional Institute Partnership (TVPIP). This alliance enables BBOB members
to attend TVPIP events, covering a wide range of professional issues. Website at:
To conclude
This year the BBOB committee has been working, planning and preparing for the
transition to the new South East Branch of CILIP, and for BBOB’s own future role
as a sub-branch. In addition to this, BBOB has continued its programme of
events and has made some exciting initiatives.
Catherine Lidbetter, Secretary
Ruth Hilbourne, Chair
West Midland Branch
This year has been a fairly quiet one for CILIP-WM due to the pressures
of work for a lot of committee members. Despite this we have still been able to
develop our partnerships and services.
We have continued to run a range of courses throughout the year and to produce
an extremely successful newsletter. We are now getting articles offered to us
thanks to the sterling work of Sylvia Jenkins the editor.
We have introduced a new role of webmaster to our committee which has led to
a revamping of our website and an increase in the number of people using it –
thanks to Dave Huddart. We are promoting it in the region now as a place to
post courses and have had over 20 posted at one time.
As Chair I have been accepted as a Library Board member for Museums, Library
and Archives- West Midlands (MLA-WM) as part of my representation for CILIP.
In addition to this our Treasurer, Dave Little was successful in getting a job in
another region and left partly through the year. I am extremely grateful to Hettie
Jones for taking over the role at short notice.
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Much of CILIP’s most valuable work is carried out by its wide range of special#p#分页标题#e#
interest groups. These reports from a selection of CILIP’s groups give a flavour of
the work they carried out in 2003-04.
Affiliated Members
On 9 April the first combined AGM and Training event for the Affiliated Members
Group was held at Swansea University, and was organised jointly with CDG
Wales. Following the mornings activities the President of CILIP, Sheila Corral,
gave a presentation on the proposed new Framework for Qualifications.
‘Social Inclusion: the way forward’ was the title of the Affiliates’ contribution to
the Umbrella conference in Manchester. This was a joint event organised in
conjunction with the PTEG Group and The Diversity Group It was highly
successful. The seminar examined the stereotypes of people who are often
socially excluded, and how they could be included into a changing library
service, and the effects this has on library staff.
The Chair of the National Committee has been fully involved with the proposals
for the new Framework of Qualifications. Ideas and concerns on how this is to be
implemented have been passed to the Steering Group for discussion, and
inclusion in future plans.
Our CILIP Councillors have attended CILIP Council meetings and associated subcommittee
meetings to keep the group informed of developments within CILIP.
While at the same time, contributing to CILIP’s future plans, and their effect on
Affiliates.
Community Services Group (CSG)
Introduction
1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004 was a year of consolidation and
forward planning for the CSG National Committee. There were many
new committee members at the beginning of the year who quickly found that
they had joined a demanding but fun team. They now consider themselves fullyfledged
committee members!
Mission Statement
CSG adopted a new mission statement which more accurately reflects the
changing environment in which we live and work:
CSG: Information, Equality, Opportunity
“CSG works towards creating community cohesion by promoting the use of library
and information services to empower people and improve their quality of life.”
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cilip special
interest groups
We do this by:
• Representing and lobbying all sectors of the library and information profession
• Developing partnerships and strategic alliances with voluntary and statutory
organisations which hold common values
• Advocating equal access to and availability of library and information services
to all
• Providing information and support on relevant issues to library and
information staff
• Highlighting and promoting services which are examples of good practice
Membership
Membership of CSG is currently around 1290 which is slightly down from last
year and while disappointing probably reflects the reduced number of qualified#p#分页标题#e#
librarians employed throughout the country. It is interesting to note that we had
92 new members this year, one living in Hong Kong and one in Philadelphia.
Twenty-six CSG members live outside the UK coming from as far a field as
Iceland and Botswana. CSG is truly multi-national and multi-cultural!
It is encouraging that library and information workers still wish to belong to CSG
when there are so many more opportunities to participate in the social
inclusion/exclusion/cohesion agenda than when CSG first came into being in 1981.
National Committee
The full National Committee met in April, July, October and January and most
meetings were very well attended. This was Philip Wark’s first year as Chair of
the Group and he expressed his thanks to the rest of the committee for all their
hard work during the year. Many committee members have given commitment
and time beyond the call of duty. Thanks are also given to our partners who have
made committee meetings so much more stimulating and informative.
Jonathan Douglas was our CILIP Liaison Officer for a short period but moved on
to higher things in MLA and was replaced by Damien McManus in October 2003.
Finance
The financial situation is still reasonably healthy thanks to both our previous
Treasurer Jim Sacre and current Treasurer Tom Berry who have carried out their
duties with remarkable tenacity. However our only current source of income is
our capitation from CILIP which does not cover our expenditure. Alternative
sources of sponsorship and funding requires to be a priority for the coming year.
The Library and Information Show continues to sponsor the Library Changes
Lives Award which it has done now for six years. We are very grateful for their
continued support and for the free stand they allot us each year at the show.
Partnerships
Last year’s annual report stated in future “The means of adding value to CSG
membership will be explored, in particular working in partnership with other
organisations which share our goals.” This is one of the key platforms for Philip’s
Chairing of the Group and it is gratifying to see powerful partnerships being
formed.
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Community Development Foundation (CDF)
CDF was set up in 1968 as the Young Volunteer Force Foundation, and
subsequently became the Community Projects Foundation. CDF is funded by the
Home Office and is not a membership organisation, but works with various
agencies and organisations. The government has provided CDF with 5 themes for
their work:
• Cohesion and diversity
• Measures of community
• Demonstrate knowledge of public bodies
• Community involvement
• Neighbourhood
Kevin Harris represents CDF on CSG Committee.
The Network: tackling social exclusion in libraries, museums, archives and galleries#p#分页标题#e#
John Vincent is quite rightly well known across the various domains for his
pioneering work in developing policies, strategies and training in the area of
social inclusion, exclusion and cohesion. We are very pleased that he represents
the Network on CSG committee.
CSG subscribes to the Network Newsletter and makes it available to members via
email.
British Council
Russell Drury represents the British Council on CSG, which works in 110
countries covering 223 service points with 9 Regional Information Co-ordinators.
In December 03 the World Summit on the Information Society was held in
Geneva and Russell represented the British Council and by association CSG. One
of the tasks of the British Council is to produce a database of good practice
where Social Inclusion is being achieved in the UK.
National Information Forum (NIF)
Derek Kinrade represents NIF on CSG, which began at an Any Questions forum
and led to the first edition of the ‘Directory for Disabled People’. ‘How to Provide
Information Well’ followed closely behind and they now provide for the
information needs of refugees and asylum seekers and other socially excluded
groups. Publications in 10 different languages are produced. They run annual
awards ‘Getting the Message Across’ to recognise excellence in the provision of
information to disadvantaged groups. CSG subscribes to their magazine
“Innovations in Information” which has excellent articles of relevance to CSG
members.
London Housebound Services Group (LHSG)
CSG supports LHSG in its substantial range of activities. Tom Berry and Sue
Cornish are their representatives.
Retired Members Guild
Ron Surridge was one of the founding members of CSG and is still active in the
Retired Members Guild. The Guild was responsible for setting up the Professional
Achievements Register.
Activities
Libraries Change Lives Award
The Libraries Change Lives Award, sponsored by the Library and Information
Show, went into its eleventh successful year and was the last to be chaired by
Philip. Nigel Thomas will be taking over the chair of the judges next year.
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Roger McGough presented the award to Portsmouth Libraries’ Eye to Eye, an
exciting IT project for the visually impaired. The two shortlisted projects were
Renfrewshire’s Out of School Homework Helper’s Club and Leicestershire’s Caring
About Reading, both excellent examples of work with children.
Umbrella 3 – 5 July 2003 Information in Action
Linda Constable organised a stimulating and varied programme of talks covering
six sessions for CSG which were all very well attended. A full report of Umbrella
is attached for information. Our sincere thanks to Linda for a job well done.
Information Literacy#p#分页标题#e#
CSG has taken on the information literacy agenda on behalf of CILIP. A sub
group chaired by Debbi Boden has been set up and will report back to committee
on proposed events, activities, publications and training opportunities to be run
under the CSG Information Literacy banner. Thanks to Sheila Corral, Debbi and
Linda Constable for progressing this.
Community Librarian
Community Librarian was only produced once this year due to various difficulties.
However the new CILIP publication Library & Information Gazette has been used
successfully in providing information about CSG to members and non-members
alike. Thanks to Janice Waugh for all her work on Gazette articles and thanks to
Jim Sacre, Linda Constable, and Janice for Community Librarian.
Social Inclusion and Libraries: a resource guide
The CSG Social Inclusion Website continues to be a source of invaluable
information to both policy makers and practitioners.
Social Inclusion Toolkit
Sue Cornish represented CSG on the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
(MLA) working party to develop the Social Inclusion Toolkit now available on
their Website.
CSG regional groups
A although some groups have been active, more practical support to organise
events and activities would be welcomed from members.
Drafts of a Marketing Strategy, Service Plan and revamped Website and leaflet
have all been produced.
Representation on CILIP Council
Philip Wark who attended four council meetings throughout the year represents
CSG on CILIP Council.
Equal Opportunities and Diversity Panel
Philip also represents CSG on the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Panel and
attended two meetings throughout the year. Work is progressing to produce an
Equal Opportunities and Diversity Strategy for CILIP.
Equality Briefings
CILIP produces guidelines and briefings on various topics for its members. Philip
represents CSG on the Cultural Diversity briefing which is being produced and
attended two meetings this year.
CILIP Fundamental Review
CILIP is undergoing a fundamental review which will affect all groups and
branches at some future date. To ensure that CSG is in a position of strength to
influence events we participated in a meeting organised by Public Libraries Group
to look at opportunities for joint working. Branch and Mobiles Group, Prison
Libraries Group, Career Development Group and Youth Libraries Group were all
represented.
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Database of Good Practice
CSG organised a meeting with MLA to investigate the development of a database
of library and information initiatives which demonstrate good practice in social
inclusion. The response was favourable and we look forward to developments in
the near future.
Philip Wark
Chair of CSG
CSG at Umbrella
Umbrella this year took place from 3rd-5th July in Manchester at UMIST under#p#分页标题#e#
the banner of Information in Action. The Community Services Group provided a
full and programme covering all six sessions and were very well attended.
The programme started on Thursday evening with Catherine Blanshard's Social
Inclusion in a Beacon service (30 attended). Catherine is Chief Librarian of Leeds
City Council and gave an inspirational presentation about the transformation of
Leeds Library Service.
Friday's programme started with a joint session with the Branch and Mobile
Libraries group – a presentation by Janet O'Hehir, Lending Time Project Director
for Community Service Volunteers and Arnie Wickens, Director of CSV Consulting
on Lending Time: A partnership between CSV and Public Libraries (40
attended). Lending Time is a three year pilot project funded jointly by the
Department of Culture, Media and Sport and Active Community Unit of the Home
Office and this presentation highlighted the new volunteering opportunities that
are being developed within local libraries and demonstrated the various skills and
challenges that volunteers bring to libraries.
This was followed by Bernard Murphy, Principal Librarian, Lending Services
working in Calderdale Public Libraries, The RAYS Project – reading can change
your life (22 attended) which demonstrated the value of reading to improve the
individual’s wellbeing and was shortlisted for the Libraries Change Lives Awards
2002.
.
The afternoon had a practical focus with a lively and entertaining joint session in
partnership with the Career Development Group, which was a double act from
John Vincent and Kath Reynolds on Including the excluded – tackling social
inclusion (41 attended). John Vincent gave an overview of the work that is going
on in libraries, museums and archives to tackle social exclusion, and Kath
Reynolds enthused the audience with an account of the practical and pioneering
work that is happening in Stoke on Trent.
On Saturday Neil Bennett, Head of Information and Cultural Services for
Pembrokeshire County Council presented Social Inclusion – A Rural Perspective
(18 attended), which reflected on the LISC (Wales) study into the work of Welsh
Public Libraries in the area of Social Inclusion.
The CSG programme came to a close with a useful practical session from Carol
Pollitt, ICT & Operations Director for the National Library for the Blind on
Accessible websites (42 attended)This was also a joint session with the
Information Services Group.
Umbrella 2003 was a great success for the Community Services Group and my
special thanks go to Shelagh Levett for putting the programme together and
Philip Wark, Chair CSG for helping with the smooth running of the sessions.
Linda Constable
Umbrella Co-ordinator
[email protected]#p#分页标题#e#
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Government Libraries Group (GLG)
GLG continues to play an active part within CILIP and the wider library
community. A healthy financial situation has been maintained and the
membership stands at 1286 the highest for some years.
We took a full part in Umbrella including well attended sessions on FoI, Digital
Divide and a joint session with ICLG and hope to build on this at future events. A
contribution was made to various CILIP consultation exercises including ELearning
Strategy and The Spectrum Project.
A well attended visit to the Westminster Reference Library was organised. While
no training events have taken place this year plans are well advanced for a
MARC based event in June 2004.
To celebrate GLG’s 25th birthday the GLG Award this year took the form of a
“Lifetime Achievement Award” and from a quality field the judges chose two
winners from very different backgrounds but who had both made an immense
contribution over their careers – Linda Wishart (DoH) Arabella Wood (DfES)
Attendance at the AGM in March 2004 was healthy and all present enjoyed a
stimulating address from Margaret Watson who took as her theme Continuing
Professional Development. It prompted lively contributions from the floor.
Information Services Group (ISG)
The group's activities included three National Committee meetings, participation
in several CILIP consultations and organisation of a variety of events. The last
included several sessions for Umbrella in July, where the Group's AGM was also
held, and local events run by Sections, of which East Anglia, South East, South
West and Scotland are currently active. The Section for Wales needs of new
committee members, and interest from the Group's membership is welcomed.
The Group's Standing Committee on Official Publications organised three
seminars. The proceedings are published by ISG Publications. Other publications
include the journal Refer, issued three times per annum, and several books and
proceedings of meetings, details of which are given on CILIP website. New titles
included Evaluating electronic resources, Accessing EU documents and Electronic
sources of UK legislation. In preparation are the proceedings of the Open
Parliament and Publication schemes seminars and a guide to loose-leaf
publication. The on-demand publications schedule is proving to be economical.
ISG has responsibility for two Reference awards. The National Committee is
actively pursuing positive initiatives to make services more relevant and
accessible to group members, of whom there are more than 4200, and is
discussing potential allocation of funding for these initiatives.
International Library and
Information Group (ILIG)
People
• Welcome Anne Powell and Julie Robinson
• Thanks Paul Sturges and Jill Martin now reducing their roles#p#分页标题#e#
• Alice Ford-Smith became ILIGLIST owner
• Hazel Dakers took over from Paul as Chairman until the end of 2004.
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Focus
• thriving with Ann Irving.
• three lively editions during the year
• lighter weight paper – more pages same postage
• currently investigating providing alternative electronic formats
• pdf back copies now going on website
Meetings
• Susan Hills arranged ILIG Informals on a wide ranging spectrum of topics
throughout the year including one in Newcastle
• Paul Sturges designed a stimulating programme at Umbrella which also
generated income
ILIGLIST
• continued to strengthen
• membership and traffic increased by more than 50%
• beginning to feel like a virtual community
Anthony Thompson Award
• Danville Fourie from Mitchells Plain Public Library, Cape Town, South Africa
• Visited wide range of UK libraries
• Attended Umbrella as guest of CILIP
• Much hospitality generously provided by ILIG members
Finances
The Committee continues to be concerned, and absorbs much of its energy, to
generate sufficient income for its basic activities and to ensure the continuance of
the Anthony Thompson Award as now, approximately every three years.
Prison Libraries Group
Development work
Project Resources Timescale
Stories from within –
a project where Dads in prison
read stories on to tapes and
send the books/tapes to their
children.
Inside Information –
project for prisoners to design
introductory and leavers packs
for prisoners about libraries.
Poetry Workshops –
several workshops run for
prisoners in the Drugs
Rehabilitation Unit.
Poetry Slams
More Reader development –
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ACET – grant received
Millennium Award –
grant received
Seeking further grant funding
South West Museums
Archive and Libraries
(SWMLAC) – awarded grant
for project
Libraries & Info Service GCC
Reader in Residence
Marcus Moore (Stroud Poet)
Brenda Read-Brown (poet)
Prison/Library in house
2000-2001
2002-2003
2004-2005
2003-2004
2003-2004
2003
2004
2004-2005
Public Libraries Group (PLG)
The Group continues to thrive with increased membership this year.
PLG ran a full programme at Umbrella this year, organised by Jacquie Campbell,
‘007, Libraries to Thrill’ took innovation in public libraries as its theme
The highly successful Public Library Authorities Conference was held in Torquay
and under the direction of Pat Beech and Jacquie Campbell attracted 238
delegates. The winners of the Building Awards, which had had a record number#p#分页标题#e#
of entries, were also announced and presented.
We have a new editor for the Public Library Journal, Mark McCree, who is
undertaking a review of the design and layout.
A restructured schedule for meetings has reduced the time and traveling burden
and has increased a sense of team working and commitment amongst committee
members.
The Committee has spent much of 2003 carrying out a review of its activities
and objectives before CILIP’s fundamental review of groups. Discussions have
been held with SCL, CILIP and a number of other groups whose members
predominantly work in public libraries. Our Business Plan has been thoroughly
updated and we will be consulting with our membership on their views during
the coming year.
Publicity & Public Relations Group (PPRG)
The PPRG has enjoyed a successful year with our main focus being on our
annual conference and our major role in the planning, organisation and judging
of the CILIP/Emerald Public Relations & Publicity Awards. We also organised
sessions at UmbrelLA .
Our Conference, ‘Library promotion – your marketing plans in action’ was
successful and for the second year running, the event was fully booked with a
waiting list for cancellations. The CILIP/Emerald PR & Publicity Awards were
presented at The Gala Awards Day in November . It was with some
disappointment that we learned that CILIP is no longer supporting the larger part
of their Award Programme. However, the PPRG is continuing the PR & Publicity
Awards as we are committed to their value in promoting excellence and sharing
good practice.
The Group continues to publish its quarterly newsletter ‘Public Eye’ which is sent
to all members. We always welcome articles, comments and reviews.
We are keen to welcome new members to our Group and of course to our
Committee. The more committed and enthusiastic members we have, the more
we can achieve.
Linda Smith
PPRG Chairperson
April 2004
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Retired Members’ Guild (RMG)
The highlight of the year was undoubtedy the Guild's trip to Australia, Hong
Kong and Singapore in September when twenty two members visited libraries
and enjoyed sight-seeing. A warm welcome and generous hospitality was
received from our colleagues in all of these places. A visit to Western Australia in
the near future is a real possibility but this will be after the Guild's visit to St
Petersburg this Autumn.
Nearer home there were visits to the Royal College of Surgeons, the Natural
History Museum, the Scottish Police College, the Courtauld Institute, the Scottish
Parliament, and the Customs & Excise Library, particularly interesting for
checking duty free allowances for members' many trips abroad!
The East Midlands Christmas lunch which is now a national institution, was#p#分页标题#e#
attended by thirty six members and a similar number enjoyed the RMG Annual
lunch which this year was held in February at our usual venue of the Civil
Services Club.
The Guild continues to receive and vet, requests for volunteer librarians and this
year was able to assist the British Athletics Supporters Club and the Council for
the Care of Churches.
The Professional Achievements Register which is proving an increasingly useful
information source for a variety of purposes was assisted and monitored by the
Guild in conjunction with its Research Officer, Peter Chapman.
UKOLUG: the United Kingdom Online User Group
The initial teething problems that occurred last year with renewals appear
to have been resolved, and membership of the Group has now stabilised.
The meetings programme yet again proved popular. Topics covered
included:
Usability Testing
Blogs and Wikis
Perspectives on Information Architecture
Content Management
Raise the Profile of Your Information Service
Making Your Web Site More Popular
Bibliographic Management Software
Copyright and Legal Issues
Patents for non-Patent People
Effective Use of Electronic Information Resources (at Umbrella 2003).
UKOLUG again staffed the Help Desk for IMARK’s Online Exhibition in December
and was asked to judge the best stand awards.
UKOLUG continues to offer awards, the Public Sector Award and Tony Kent Strix
award were presented at the CILIP Gala Day.
Work continued on the market validation for e-Diamond, an EU funded research
project called e-Diamond and an article on the results of the final survey
appeared in UKOLUG's new electronic newsletter called eLucidate.
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UKOLUG's new Web site was launched at Online 2003, and the new series of
fact sheets have proved extremely popular. At the start of 2004, the printed
Newsletter was replaced with a one page news sheetand an
electronic newsletter (eLucidate). Both are published six times a year.
Karen Blakeman
Honorary Secretary
Youth Libraries Group (YLG)
YLG represents members of CILIP who work with children and young
people in libraries.
National Committee meets three times a year to discuss issues relevant to
members that arise either through CILIP or are on the national agenda
concerning children and young people. We work in close partnership with
organisations like ‘The Reading Agency’, ASCEL, Book Trust and the National
Literacy Trust to ensure our members are kept informed and are represented at
national level.
In 2003, we undertook a consultation exercise with the whole of CILIP’s
membership and others via the CILIP website to determine issues concerning the
CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals’ process, that YLG judges on behalf#p#分页标题#e#
of CILIP.
We held the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards in July which were
won by Sharon Creech for ‘Ruby Holler and Bob Graham for ‘Jethro Byrde, Fairy
Child’ respectively.
Our annual conference was held at Manchester Metropolitan University on the
theme of partnership – ‘With My Brain and Your Looks, we could go places’ and
over 200 delegates from all over the UK and Europe attended it.
We publish the journal ‘Youth Library Review’ twice a year, the Spring edition
being a hard copy sent to all our members and the Autumn copy being electronic
and at present, available to all to read Anne Marley, Past Chair YLG
CILIP Advisory Panel on Preservation and Conservation,
Heritage and Security
During its first full CILIP year the Panel has continued its rolling programme of
focus on salient areas, of reviewing current problems in the UK and abroad, and
of advising Policy Development Committee and Council as necessary.
The salient areas have included the Panel’s response to the National Information
Policy PAG report, fully accepted by the Policy Development Committee. A Panel
Working Party has subsequently recommended, amongst other things, a higher
profile within CILIP for preservation and conservation for all materials, whether
traditional or electronic, and inclusion of education in preservation within core
curricula and in continuing professional development. We continue to seek
funding for a post for a library advisory heritage lottery fund service, a field of
opportunity much neglected by librarians though not by archivists.
The Panel regularly reviews such UK matters (now becoming commonplace) as
the proposed closure of York Minster Library; and, further afield, the situation in
Iraq and Afghanistan. The Committee on the Export of Works of Art has, through
repeated representations by us, incorporated within its stated remit our concern
over the sale and break-up and loss of collections to the UK. This has yet to be
confirmed by HMG.
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After a successful seminar, followed by a full report, we are pressing forward with
making the problems of the identification, cataloguing, preservation and
conservation of ephemera better understood and acted upon. In our continuing
programme of such events we hold (in association with CILIP Rare Books
Groups) a one-day seminar in Spring 2005 on the longstanding problem of the
sale of special collections.
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These are the Trustees who served from 1st January 2003 to the present. The
period covers three governance years, which run from 1st April to 31st March
each year.
President
2002/3 Sheila Corrall MA MBA MSc FCLIP FRSA MCMI
2003/4 Margaret Watson BA MA MCLIP
2004/5 Margaret Haines BA MLS#p#分页标题#e#
President-Elect
2002/3 Margaret Watson BA MA MCLIP
2003/4 Margaret Haines BA MLS
2004/5 Deborah Shorley BA MCLIP
Immediate Past President
2002/3 Bernard Naylor MA DipLib MCLIP FRSA
2002/3 Peter Enser BA Mtech PhD MBCS FCLIP HonFCLIP
2003/4 Sheila Corrall MA MBA MSc FCLIP FRSA MCMI
2004/5 Margaret Watson BA MA MCLIP
Honorary Treasurer
Catherine Hume BA MSc MCLIP (December 2002-March 2003)
Andrew Wale BA MCLIP (From April 2003)
National Councillors
Suzanne Burge BA(Hons) FCLIP
Barry Cropper MA(Cantab) DipLib MCLIP MIMgt
Liz Dubber BA MCLIP
Kate Gardner BA MLib MCLIP
Peter Griffiths BA MCLIP FCLIP
Shelagh Levett BA CertEd MCLIP
Liz MacLachlan MA FCLIP
Anne Poulson (nee McIlwaine) BA (Hons) MPhil MA
Deborah Shorley BA MCLIP (to March 2004)
Martin Stone BA MCLIP HonFCLIP (to March 2004)
Pearl Valentine MBE BA(Hons) FCLIP (to March 2004)
Sandra Ward BSc PhD CertEd FCLIP HonFCLIP
Chris Armstrong Blib FIAP FCLIP (from April 2004)
Pat Beech MCLIP (from April 2004)
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principal officers and
council 2003-04
Elected by Groups of the Institute
Branch & Mobile Libraries: Brian Chapman BA (to March 2004),
Sue Cook MCLIP (from April 2004)
Career Development Group: Tracy Long BA MCLIP (March 2003), Ayub Khan
(April 2003 to March 2004), Joanna Ball (from April 2004)
Cataloguing & Indexing: Kayla Tomlinson BA MLS MCLIP
Colleges of Further & Higher Education: Jacqui Weetman BA (Hons) DipLib
MCLIP (to March 2004), Andrew Eynon BA(Hons) DipLIS MCLIP (from April
2004)
Community Services: Howard Matthew BA MA MCLIP (to March 2003), Philip
Wark MCLIP (from April 2004)
Diversity Group: Ayub Khan BA (Hons) MCLIP (from April 2004)
Education Librarians: Diana Rolf BA MCLIP (to March 2004)
Government Libraries: Sue Westcott MA DipLib MCLIP (to March 2004), Julia
Chandler (from April 2004)
Health Libraries: Tony McSeán FCLIP
Industrial and Commercial Libraries: Elizabeth Dwiar MA PGCE DipIS
Information Services: Amanda Duffy BA MCLIP
International: Barbara Turfan BA MA DipLib MCLIP
Library and Information History: John Crawford BA MA PhD FCLIP FSA(Scot)
MIInfSc(Scot)
Library and Information Research: J Eric Davies MA PhD FCLIP (from April
2004)
Local Studies: Elizabeth Melrose MA DipLib MCLIP
Multimedia Information & Technology: Catherine Hume BA MSc MCLIP
Patents and Trade Marks: Ann Chapman BA (to March 2003), Bob Stembridge
(from April 2003 to March 2004)
Personnel, Training and Education: Sheron Burton BA(Hons) MA MCLIP
Prison Libraries: Cathy Evans MCLIP
Public Libraries: Martin Molloy BA DipLib MCLIP (to March 2004),Trevor Knight
(from April 2004)
Publicity and Public Relations: Alasdair MacNaughtan BA MCLIP DMS MIMgt#p#分页标题#e#
Rare Books: George Lilley MA PhD DipLib FCLIP
School Libraries: Gill Purbrick MCLIP
UKOLUG: the United Kingdom Online User Group: Karen Blakeman BSc
DipInfSc FCLIP
University College & Research: Andrew McDonald BSc FCLIP
Youth Libraries: Annie Everall OBE BA MCLIP
Elected by Branches of the Institute
指导留学生论文Berks, Bucks & Oxfordshire: Norman Briggs BSc MA MCLIP (to March 2004)
CILIP in London: Barry Walkinshaw BA MCLIP (from April 2004)
Eastern: Lesley Noblett MA MCLIP
East Midlands: Mandy Hicken MLS MCLIP (to March 2004), Carol Campbell BA
MCLIP (from April 2004)
London & Home Counties: Barry Walkinshaw BA MCLIP (to March 2004)
North Western: Fiona Hughes BA (Hons) MLib MCLIP
Northern/North Eastern: Peter Harbord MA MCLIP
South East: Audrey Marshall MA DipLib MCLIP (from April 2004)
South Western: Brian Hinton MA MA (Oxon) PhD MCLIP
West Midlands: Pat Beech MCLIP (to March 2004), Brian Hall (from April
2004)
Yorkshire & Humberside: Alison Jobey BA (Hons) MCLIP
Scotland: Audrey Walker BA MCLIP
Ireland: Barry Harrington BSc MSc PhD MCLIP
Wales/Cymru: Lloyd Ellis BLib MCLIP
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Elected by Affiliated Members
Heather Hedges (to March 2003)
Karen Newton
Muriel Mitchell (from April 2003)
Members of Council are Trustees of CILIP for the purpose of Charity legislation.
In accordance with the byelaws of the Association, the President, Honorary
Treasurer, and National Councillors were elected by postal ballot of all personal
members. Branch Councillors were elected by postal ballot of personal members
of the appropriate Branch. Group Councillors were elected by postal ballot of
personal members of the appropriate Group. Affiliated Members Councillors were
elected by postal ballot of the Affiliated Members.
Details of CILIP’s Committees and Panels and their membership can be found on
the web site – Financial statements relating to CILIP’s activities in 2003 are available in the
Annual Report and Accounts 2003.
This document is available in alternative
formats on request.
For details, please write to CILIP at
7 Ridgmount St
London WC1E 7AE,
or telephone 020 7255 0500,
or textphone 020 7255 0505.
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