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• Developing a taxonomy
• Twitter for librarians
• Essential skills for LIS staff
• Using social networking and UGC websites
• Analysing, interpreting, comparing and presenting statistical data
  

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• Experienced and expert facilitators
• Purpose built training rooms
• Limited number of participants ensure highly participative and interactive events
• Comprehensive training materials
• Hot buffet lunch with every full day course
  

Contact the training department

If you need to speak to a member of the training department or if you require further information about any of the events listed, please contact us at:

Email: training@cilip.org.uk
Tel: 020 7255 0560
Fax: 020 7255 0561

CILIP has launched its guidelines on ‘User Privacy in Libraries’. The guidelines have been developed to help staff working in library and information services tackle complex confidentiality and privacy issues. Such issues include data sharing, the internet, children, CCTV and what rights police and other security agencies have to demand access to the personal information of users.

The guidelines were developed following concern that the number of interventions by police and security services seeking confidential information about library users was increasing. CILIP ran a surveillance survey, which indicated this was not the case, but it did reveal a number of places lacking a policy covering this area and a need for advice and guidance.

Margaret Watson, who led the work on privacy and is chair of CILIP’s Ethics Panel, commented on the guidelines:

“Most institutions will have policies relating to the confidentiality of personal information but that doesn’t absolve the practitioner from individual responsibility. Under CILIP’s Ethical Principles each practitioner has to show “respect for confidentiality and privacy in dealing with information users”. The guidelines will help them in this and, where there are worries about existing practice members must raise the issue in an appropriate manner”.

As well as a general section on privacy issues the guidelines include sections on ‘Keeping Users Informed’, ‘How to Handle Requests for Data’, and the ‘Law and Privacy of Users’. Examples of best practice are included and there are extensive links to key documents allowing users to drill down to the detail of individual issues.

“The Ethics Panel will keep the guidelines under review,” continued Margaret Watson, “and they will also provide confidential advice to members facing problems in this area. It is vital that we have the support in place to enable our members to manage personal information responsibly and ensure the confidence of the public in the confidentiality and security of the personal information they entrust us with”.

The guidelines can be downloaded from www.cilip.org.uk/privacyguidelines

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Press contacts:

Guy Daines, Director of Policy and Advocacy, CILIP
Tel: 020 7255 0632
Email: guy.daines@cilip.org.uk  

Mark Taylor, Head of Corporate Marketing and Media Relations, CILIP
Tel: 020 7255 0650
Email: mark.taylor@cilip.org.uk

You can download the full document and sections of it.

Section 1 Contents & Introduction
Section 2 Privacy
Section 3 Keeping users informed
Section 4 How to handle requests for data
Sections 5 & 6 The Law and the privacy of users & Ethics Panel
Appendices: Use of the internet in prison libraries; CILIP's User Privacy in Libraries Task and Finish Group; Warwickshire Library and Information Service Child Photographic Consent Form; List of web links

The Board consists of the following CILIP Members:-

•  Carol Brooks
•  David Byrne
•  Biddy Fisher (Chair)
•  Katie Fraser
•  Alan Fricker
•  Liz Jolly
•  Stephanie Kenna
•  Liz MacLachlan
•  Nigel Macartney (co-option)

Find out more about Defining our Professional Future

In 2012 CILIP will be ten years old. In 2018 the library and information profession will have had Chartered status for 120 years.

What will the Knowledge and Information domain look like in 2020? Where will a professional association fit into this domain? How will you engage with this professional association? 

Between April and June 2010 a conversation will take place, to try and answer these questions. The conversation will be open to anyone interested in the Knowledge and Information domain.

The programme

The conversation is a project within a larger programme. This programme aims to define our professional future. Four projects make up the programme:

The Conversation
The Conversation will surface and consider issues. Conclusions from the issues will be reported to CILIP Council.

The Vision
CILIP Council will synthesise issues from the conversation, then verify with members and wider stakeholders.

The Roadmap
CILIP Council will develop a roadmap.

Ownership and implementation
CILIP Council will implement the Roadmap, seeking involvement from stakeholders.

See the programme timetable for more details.

The Project Board

A Project Board has been established to manage and facilitate the consultation process. The Board is chaired by Biddy Fisher, the CILIP President, and members are drawn from the CILIP community.

Tasks for the Project Board:

• Steer the programme of work
• Appoint the consultancy
• Guide and oversee progress
• Report to CILIP Council

Read biographies for members of the project board

How you can get involved

The Conversation will take formally take place between April and June 2010. The following questions are designed to begin a process of surfacing the issues, and the thoughts and ideas of all stakeholders:

• What will the Knowledge and Information domain look like in 2020?
• Where will a professional association fit into this domain?
• How will you engage with this professional association?   

The Conversation is open; with CILIP members, the whole Knowledge and Information sector and other interested parties.

If you want to have conversations using social media; such as Twitter, blog posts, video posts etc. then help us find your conversations by using the tag cilipfuture (or #cilipfuture on Twitter).

You can also comment on Biddy Fisher's blog and join in the CILIP Communities discussion form (open to all, but registration on the CILIP website required to stop spam posts).

Programme documents

The following official documents about the programme are available to download as PDFs:

Project Board Call for Expressions of Interest (17 December 2009) 
Business Requirements Document (24 February 2010)

In the event that it is directly relevant to a candidate for a potential mentor to have personal understanding of gender and/or ethnicity and/or disability, please contact the QPD department, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount St, London, WC1E 7AE 020 7255 0610)

For each particular mentor this list shows the number of mentees already registered/total number of mentees.

Some mentors have a link to Mentor's Profile at the end of their entry. Click on this to find out more about them.

In the event that it is directly relevant to a candidate for a potential mentor to have personal understanding of gender and/or ethnicity and/or disability, please contact the QPD department, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount St, London, WC1E 7AE (020 7255 0500).

For each particular mentor this list shows the number of mentees already registered/total number of mentees.

Some mentors have a link to Mentor's Profile at the end of their entry. Click on this to find out more about them.

In the event that it is directly relevant to a candidate for a potential mentor to have personal understanding of gender and/or ethnicity and/or disability, please contact the QPD department, CILIP, 7 Ridgmount St, London, WC1E 7AE (020 7255 0500).

You may also choose a mentor based in the UK and communicate electronically.

For each particular mentor this list shows the number of mentees already registered/total number of mentees.

Some mentors have a link to Mentor's Profile at the end of their entry. Click on this to find out more about them.

Writing for the web
Managing the library budget
Repackaging your research: adding value to your answers
Handling enquiries: the basics
Abstracting with confidence
Improving your website: a practical guide
Devising a desk research
Institutional repositories and metadata
Using blogs, wikis and RSS feeds
Developing a taxonomy
Twitter for librarians
Using social networking and UGC websites
Essential skills for LIS staff
Analysing, interpreting, comparing and presenting statistical data
Using multimedia to promote your service
eSurvey methods
Finding and using resources for specific types of research
Setting up a specialist information service from scratch
Handling enquiries remotely: effective enquiry answering by phone and email
Generic social outcomes in public libraries
Community profiling in public libraries
Summarising from websites
eNewsletters: an introduction
Metadata essentials
Evaluating the impact of HE/FE and health libraries
Practical project management for LIS staff
Evaluating the impact of public libraries
Bidding for funds

The winner was announced by Andrew Motion at a special award ceremony held at the Umbrella Conference on the 15 July.

Winner

• Across the Board: Autism support for families- Leeds Library and Information Service

Finalists

• The Edinburgh Reading Champion Project – Edinburgh City Council
  
  
• Six Book Challenge – The Reading Agency in association with Costa Coffee

Across the Board: Autism support for families - Leeds Library and Information Service

Watch a video about the project on Youtube

Listen to an audio recording (MP3, 3 Mbytes)

Can't access Youtube? Download the video from the CILIP website (MPG, 27.5 Mbytes)

The main user community for this project is families in Leeds who have children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), including Asperger Syndrome. 

There are about 300 families in Leeds who have children with ASD.

Another 25 pre-school children are diagnosed by the Child Development Centres in Leeds each year. Children with autism have difficulty with social communication and social interaction. This can result in unpredictable behaviour and means that parents of autistic children may not see libraries as a natural venue where they could come for information, advice or guidance. Leeds Library and Information Service is working in partnership with STARS autism specialists and speech and language therapy specialists to change that perception offering sustainable services and support to this community. The project began after a parent requested the Boardmaker software which is a picture communication tool that can enable parents and autistic children to communicate with each other.

The scheme has helped families realise that ASD and associated communication and behavioural issues are more widely understood and accepted by library staff. Staff are supportive, offer practical help and run autism/Asperger monthly advice sessions in partnership with the STARS team.

The Edinburgh Reading Champion Project -
City of Edinburgh Council

Watch a video about the project on Youtube

Listen to an audio recording (MP3, 3 Mbytes)

Can't access Youtube? Download the video from the CILIP website (MPG, 27.5 Mbytes)

This innovative Edinburgh-wide initiative encourages reading for pleasure amongst looked after children and young people in residential care in Edinburgh. Children who do not have access to services because of disability, communication difficulties, neglect or abuse, difficulties with their education or those who present very challenging behaviours and are sometimes regarded as a threat to the community are often marginalised or excluded from mainstream services.

The Project encourages staff to help the most vulnerable young people discover the pleasures of reading, contributing to their self esteem, sense of attachment and educational achievement.

It employs a Reading Champion to develop 'bespoke' reader development programmes in partnership with looked after children, carers, library staff and other partners. Central to the project is influencing staff on the relevance of books and reading for looked after young people. The long term aim is to effect 'cultural change' in which care and library staff promote reading as normal activity in all centres.

This type of work - and the impact on people’s lives - is often long term.

Six Book Challenge - The Reading Agency in Association with Costa Coffee

Watch a video about the project on Youtube

Listen to an audio recording (MP3, 3 Mbytes)

Can't access Youtube? Download the video from the CILIP website (MPG, 25 Mbytes)

The Six Book Challenge is an exciting new annual scheme designed to encourage adults to read for pleasure. A simple but powerful device, it invites them to read six books and record their reading in a diary in order to be rewarded with incentives and a certificate. This national scheme is delivered locally by 152 library authorities across the UK working with partners such as FE colleges, prison education and trade unions. Libraries play a central role in supplying appealing books, reaching out to participants, celebrating their achievements and offering them a way of sustaining their new reading habit.

Library services featured in this application include Staffordshire, West Sussex, Warrington, Sheffield, Renfrewshire and the Western Education and Library Board in Northern Ireland.

Entries for the 2010 Awards are now closed.

The judging process

The judges are representatives from CILIP's Community Services Group.

They meet early in the new year to decide a shortlist of three projects based on the information submitted. To do this they have a schedule where they allocate points to each criterion. The points are cumulated and each judge draws up a list of potential shortlisted entries. At the meeting the judges compare scores, and then enter into debate about which three projects should be shortlisted. The judges then visit the shortlisted projects (by prior arrangement) during to decide the winner.

The judges' decisions are final. They reserve the right to withhold or withdraw the Award at their own discretion.

Criteria

A project must be:

• UK based
• current and have delivered the service for at least 12 months up to 15 February 2010
  
• a partnership of two or more organisations, one of which is a library or information service.

The judges will assess the entry looking for the following:

• Demonstrates the value of library or information services to the individual and to communities
• Enriches and changes the lives of individuals
• Consults, engages with and involves local communities and service users
• Adds medium to long-term value to the library service and the community, and demonstrates work towards social inclusion
• Demonstrates innovation and creativity
• Supports local, regional or national strategies for improving communities
• Contributes to equality of access and celebrates diversity
• Demonstrates good practice with potential transferability to other library services.

The Award highlights and rewards good practice in any innovative library and information projects which:

• Change lives
• Bring people together
• Involve user communities
• Demonstrate innovation and creativity
• Develop staff and services

We welcome entries from any sector of the library and information world. They could be reading projects, learning projects, or projects that promote information. They must be shown to have affected people’s lives for the better, whoever those people might be.

The judges will choose three finalists and all receive:

• National recognition
• Enhanced credibility with fund holders and decision makers
• The opportunity to celebrate your success with staff, users and partners
• Prize money to put into your project

The overall winner will receive a trophy and prize money of £5,000.  The two other finalists will receive a certificate and prize money of £2,000 each.

The 2010 winner will be announced at a ceremony on Tuesday 6 July 2010 as part of a new Libraries Change Lives conference at Kings Place, London.

The Libraries Change Lives Award is run by CILIP and it's Community Services Group.

The purpose of the award is to recognise positive achievements and promote outstanding library based initiatives which:

• Celebrate the value of library and information services to the individual
• Enrich the lives of individuals
• Help strengthen local communities
• Add value to the community served
• Contribute to equality of access
• Demonstrate good practice
• Consult and involve the end user

Emma Rye, Assistant Librarian, University of Glamorgan

The Campaigning Toolkit turned out to be my lifeline, and the vital component in helping me, and others on my grade, prepare a strong and ultimately successful argument to promote our professional status.  I highly recommend it to anyone having to partake in professional advocacy, at whatever level. 

After a career break doing something completely different, I moved to Wales to start a new life in the Welsh Valleys.  I quickly found a professional post in an academic library, despite having never worked in Higher Education before (my previous library experience had mainly been in school libraries).  I knew I had a very steep learning curve ahead, so I immediately reactivated my CILIP membership.  I also joined the committee for the Wales division of the Career Development Group (CDG) to help me get up to speed as fast as possible. CILIP & CDG have also helped me in a way I would never have expected. 

My employer implemented a job evaluation scheme, and I found myself needing to demonstrate my value as a library and information professional.  

A CDG colleague told me about the Campaigning Toolkit.  I had heard of it before, but naively thought it was only for those conducting large scale, media campaigns.  On reading through the Toolkit, I found that it wasn’t all relevant for my small campaign.  However, it contains extensive guidance about making an action plan, developing a network of supporters, influencing key decision makers, defining your key message (CILIP also sent me an invaluable list of words and phrases to use and avoid), etc. 

The Toolkit turned out to be my lifeline, and the vital component in helping me, and others on my grade, prepare a strong and ultimately successful argument to promote our professional status.  I highly recommend it to anyone having to partake in professional advocacy, at whatever level.  January 2010

More Successes

Helen Dahlke, Reader Development
Librarian 

 
Ayub Khan
Head of Libraries (Strategy) 

 
Shelagh Levett
Service Director: Information, Culture and Community Learning 

Bruce Madge
Immediate Past President CILIP 



 
Ronan O’Beirne
Assistant Director
Learning Development


 Sue Wilkinson MBE
(For services to Reading and Literacy)
 Prison Librarian

Nikki Heath School Librarian,
SLA School Librarian of the Year 2008


Nigel Morgan Subject Librarian,
Information Services


Ciara Eastell
Head of Libraries 

Lisa Sutlief
Information Officer

Careers Gateway: your route to information and advice related to your library and information career.

CILIP Communities: your space for connecting, sharing and gaining focus on professional issues.

CILIP Information and Advice Blog

CILIP Network of Expertise and Interest

Encompass Toolkit: Advice and guidance for diversifying your staff profile and developing positive action trainee schemes.

Facts and figures for libraries in general and your sector: Public Libraries; Higher Education.

Internal marketing: Presentation (PowerPoint)

Improving pay and status: a school librarian's self-empowerment pack

Key messages: Template (MS Word)

Making a difference - your value as a library and information professional: Presentation (PowerPoint)

Public libraries advocacy: What makes a good library - professional guidelines; Empower, Inform, Enrich - The modernisation review of public libraries and CILIP response to the consultation paper.

Salaries: Job Evaluation and a Practical Guide to negotiating for pay with sector specific advice and information. 

Sample key messages (Draft): Worksheet (MS Word)

Registration form 

Application form 

Personal Development Plan 

Personal Statement single category January 2009 onwards.

Personal Statement single category guidance notes (50KB) January 2009 onwards.

Supporting letter template

Assessment form Single category.

CPD audit sheet: this is not a required document but can be useful in identifying evidence of learning to include in the portfolio.

We are currently recruiting for the following roles:

CRB-checked candidates required!
Nationwide
£various
Temporary and permanent roles

Schools and FE colleges nationwide are seeking experienced candidates at all levels for various temporary and permanent Library and Information roles. If you have a current CRB disclosure and are immediately available we are keen to hear from you!

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Assistant Director, Learning & Information Services
HE
London
Permanent
£good
Our ref: 4223

This opportunity involves developing and implementing information strategies across the university, whilst also providing leadership for all aspects of the service, from the library to online systems.  You will ensure that service delivery is client-focussed, and also maintain and develop the role of library and information services across the organisation.  Strong, relevant experience gained in a higher education setting is a must.

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Contact Infomatch

Ahead of next week's publication of the Library Review, The Guardian carries a four page article about public libraries.

Margaret Hodge and Mike Whitby, Birmingham City Councils Leader are 2 of the people giving comments.

Attending Council Meetings

CILIP Members are actively encouraged to encourage meetings. This is in line with Communication Principle 1: CILIP encourages openness in communication and the sharing of information, and Governance Principle 5: CILIP is committed to involving the membership in the work of the Institute.

Further information about attending Council meetings 

Council Decisions

To enhance its communication with members, CILIP Council will post its key decisions to the CILIP website’s homepage on the day following each formal meeting. A more detailed posting by trustees to the CILIP Council Blog will be made by the end of the following week. A list of all decisions made by Council in each of its meetings will be posted to the Council pages within two weeks of each meeting.

Council have agreed that meetings will be held on the following dates in 2010:-

Thursday 21 January

Thursday 25 February

Thursday 18 March

Thursday 15 April

Thursday 10 June

Thursday 15 July (to be held in Leeds)

Tuesday 21 September

Tuesday 23 November.