CILIP | Celebrating 5 years of CILIP

1 April 2002 – CILIP is launched at a celebration party for CILIP activists and guests at Shakespeare’s Under Globe in London.

20 June 2002 – CILIP’s first promotional campaign, Frontiers: science in libraries, organised as part of the Government’s Science Year, achieves national television and radio coverage for its dream lab experiment on reading and dreaming. 10,000 people take part.

3 July 2002 – Patricia Hewitt (then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry) addresses a special reception at the House of Commons organised by CILIP to celebrate excellence in the knowledge economy.

26 September 2002 – The Reading Agency is launched with substantial financial support from CILIP.

16 October 2002 – CILIP publishes Start with the Child – a radical new vision exploring the future of libraries for children and young people.

24 October 2002 – CILIP opens a new information centre for members, kitted out by Instant Library.

1 November 2002 – The CILIP Gala Awards ceremony brings together the award presentations for the Public Relations & Publicity Awards, the Robinson Medal, The Jason Farradane Award, the Tony Kent Strix Award and the Reference Awards at a Gala event at the Landmark Hotel in London.

12 November 2002 – CILIP published the CILIP in the Knowledge Economy report, which sets out a strategy for CILIP to meet the challenge of the changing information landscape.

6 December 2002 – the first CILIP / Online Personal Development Award is presented to Jas Sembhi, senior information officer at leading London law firm D J Freeman at the glittering Information Industry Awards.

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Updated: 12 October 2007

Celebrating 5 years of CILIP - the milestones