Campaigning Resources

These resources can be downloaded by CILIP members and library campaigners in developing their campaigns and demonstrating the value of professional skills and knowledge:

Blogs and Networks 
CILIP Communities: your space for connecting, sharing and gaining focus on professional issues.
CILIP Information and Advice Blog
thewikiman blog: Ned Potter

Guides
Adding Value: Practical Guide.
Salaries: Job Evaluation and a Practical Guide to negotiating for pay with sector specific advice and information. 
Careers Gateway: your route to information and advice related to your library and information career.
Encompass Toolkit: Advice and guidance for diversifying your staff profile and developing positive action trainee schemes.
Improving pay and status: a school librarian's self-empowerment pack
Tools for government, legal, health and corporate libraries:help demonstrate the value and impact of library and information services, assess whether they deliver good value for money and provide early identification if the service is at risk of reduction.
What makes a good library: professional guidelines for public libraries.

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

Reports and Consultations
Empower, Inform, Enrich: The modernisation review of public libraries.
Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS: CILIP response to NHS White Paper

Templates and Worksheets
Action plan: Template (MS Word)
Key messages: Template (MS Word)
Sample key messages: Worksheet (MS Word)

Statistics
Facts and figures for library and information profession for all sectors.

Tips for Success
Building a network of campaign supporters: Tips for success (MS Word)