About the Policy Forum
The Policy Forum has been in existence since January 2008. It had its first meeting in March 2008 and met subsequently in September and November 2008. It meets in April and October 2009.
• It’s the main professional policy generating body of CILIP.
• It meets two to three times a year.
• It comprises 41 elected members from CILIP groups, branches & home nations (plus three others).
• If members can’t attend, their ‘alternate’ member can attend instead.
• The Vice-President of CILIP is the Chair of the Policy Forum.
Group, branches & home nations representatives
Each CILIP group, branch and home nation has a member and alternate member representative to the Policy Forum.
View 2009 Policy Forum Reps - a table listing the reps for 2009.
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What the Policy Forum does
The Policy Forum identifies the challenges and opportunities facing CILIP and looks at how to address them. For example, at the meeting on 4 September some of the issues the Forum considered were:
• libraries, extremism and surveillance
• libraries and public health
• the organisation’s advocacy framework.
The Policy Forum was set up as part of the new Governance structure to be the main way that professional policy issues are developed and debated within CILIP.
It puts forward recommendations for CILIP Council to endorse. It is Council's role to translate these into actions in the strategic plan. The group is supported by the Policy & Advocacy Unit in its work.
Why do we need a Policy Forum?
CILIP recognises the need to ensure that professional policy issues are at the forefront of our work and established the Policy Forum to ensure this happens. Having a separate policy group enables CILIP's Council to focus primarily on business matters.
Secretary: Guy Daines BA DipLib MCLIP FRSA (guy.daines@cilip.org.uk)
Policy Forum Member Appointment Form