CLSIG's 40th Anniversary party - report/celebratory booklet

Our 40th anniversary celebration was held on Monday, 28th November at the historic and impressive Marble Hall at the Royal Society. It was a full house on the night with all tickets sold, and some former chairs of the original LAIG and ICLG groups were present. See a selection of photos here. 

Guests at the 40^th year party – and everybody who visited the CLSIG stand at Online – received a copy of a rather remarkable booklet: our celebration of 40 years of LAIG – ICLG – CLSIG.  A4 and A5 copies are now available here -- A5Booklet and A4Booklet.

Next CLSIG committee meeting

The last CLSIG committee meeting was on Monday 23^rd Jan from 6.30 – 8.30 pm at Le Pain Quotidien, Winchester Walk, London, SE1 9AG, and the next meeting will take place on 17th April.  All CLSIG members are welcome to attend as observers. Please contact Irena Valouchova, our Hon. Secretary, if you would like to join us: secretary@clsig.org.uk

Nominations required for Hon.Treasurer

After 3 years Sue Edgar is stepping down as our Honorary Treasurer. We’d like to thank Sue for her diligent work as Treasurer and her valuable contribution to the Group. We now require nominations for Hon. Treasurer and a nomination form is available on our website or from Irena Valouchova, our Hon. Secretary: secretary@clsig.org.uk. The deadline for nominations is 17th February 2012. The current Chair and Secretary are continuing in post.

Online Information 2011

Once again, CLSIG was exhibiting at the Online Information International Exhibition and Conference, 29 November - 1 December 2011, National Hall, Olympia, London, UK.

See here for more details, or visit the event website.

Other recent events

• CLSIG/BIALL Graduate Open Day – 25th October

BIALL and CLSIG invited graduate trainees, first jobbers and student librarians to their joint annual Open Day. Information Professionals from all parts of the workplace sector spoke about their working day and offer tips on finding jobs in their area.  Lyn Robinson of City University opened the day with a talk about studying information and Sue Edgar, Recruitment Manager - Executive from Sue Hill Recruitment advised on your information career.  Other professionals from a variety of sectors gave insight to their careers.  These include Sue Edgar (Sue Hill Recruitment), Penny Bailey (Bailey Solutions), Sandra Smythe (Mishcon de Reya Solicitors), Mark Haines (BPP University College of Professional Studies) and Phillip Barlow (Imperial College London).
 
There were visits to one of three special libraries during the day - Wellcome Trust, British Library and the BMA.  

• Internet Librarian International - 26-28 Oct 2011

‘Navigating the New Normal - Strategies for Success’ was the theme of this year’s Internet Librarian International and the opening keynote speaker was Klaus Tochtermann, who  discussed ‘How the future internet will shape libraries’. Topics at this year’s Internet Librarian International included emerging technologies, e-books and e-devices, new ways of measuring impact, managing and marketing resources, the future of digital collections, search and discovery, and advocacy and influence. CLSIG partnered with Internet Librarian International to provide members with a special discount to attend the London conference. 

• Tour of the London Library – 31st October - New alternative date!

CLSIG secured a second date for this popular free tour of the London Library. Over many generations the London Library has been amassing books and periodicals covering every aspect of the humanities to give readers, writers and researchers the riches of a national reference library for use in their own homes or workplaces. The Library's founding principles remain a blueprint for providing the most direct and liberal access to knowledge.

• Open Library - TWI Ltd - 16th November

Our membership survey told us that you would like more library tours especially of other members’ libraries. This was the first one:

TWI Ltd is both an engineering research and consultancy company with an international clientele and a UK professional engineering institution. We heard about what they do to serve these through their special library, records management and database activities.

For full details of forthcoming seminars and other CLSIG events, see our Events Page.The Professional Development Club focuses on practical solutions to the day to day challenges faced by CLSIG members, and will allow you to share your experiences and learn from your colleagues.

Read more on our Events page

Other event reports

•  Susie Kay on Getting Organised, on Thursday, 22nd September. Following the success of Susie Kay’s talk on Professionalism at our AGM, Susie returned to talk in her series about Getting Organised. We all have more to do and less resources at our disposal so we all need more time – or do we? We can’t conjure time out of thin air but we can all make better use of what we have. All you need are the right attitude and the right strategies. See the September 2011 issue of CLSIG News for a full report.
• LinkedIn Hands-on Workshop, Wednesday 22nd June 6.00 – 8.00 pm
  At our AGM we asked members to complete a questionnaire about what sort of events they would like. One of the ideas put to us was a practical workshop on using LinkedIn. Penny Bailey and James Mullan led this workshop on how to create or improve your profile, make connections, join groups and more.
• CLSIG-NetIKX Sharepoint event. A joint event (with ) on Making the most of SharePoint, was held on 18th May, at the British Dental Association. A report of the event can be read in the  May/July 2011 issue of CLSIG News.
• 2011 AGM: The CLSIG Annual General Meeting 2011 and seminar were held on Wednesday, 23rd Mar 2011 at the City Business Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2V 7HH. The AGM report and associated documents can be found here. The evening featured a seminar by Susie Kay on Professionalism (PowerPoint presentation here)

 

CLSIG is going places – wouldn’t you like to be part of it?

The CLSIG committee is always looking for people prepared to give a little time every month to assisting with our administration, events and activities.  We are an ambitious, active and friendly group, the work is rewarding, will raise your profile and help your career, and at the same time is a lot of fun.

Over the past five years CLSIG has developed its focus and broadened its activities to appeal to many new areas in the commercial sector, and we continually seek to maintain and advance our services to members and to raise the profile of the group.  We try to keep ahead of every new development in the information world, and have events planned for every month of 2010. Our training seminars offer high quality, excellent value-for-money opportunities for career development, and we have been awarded CILIP’s Seal of recognition for our CPD seminars.

You could participate in the group’s work in a number of ways.  If you’d rather start with a ‘toe in the water’ to get a feel for who we are and what we do, join us as a Committee Member to see what is going on and where you think you might comfortably fit.  Later you may feel like taking on one of the specific roles we need to fill for a fully-functioning committee.

Our next committee meeting will be held on Wednesday 2nd November from 6.30 – 8.30 pm, venue to be confirmed.  All CLSIG members are welcome to attend.

View Committee vacancies 

CLSIG awarded CILIP Seal of Recognition

CLSIG has been awarded the CILIP Seal of Recognition following an assessment of the first event in CLSIG's Professional Development Club series, on IT for Information Professionals.

See About us for more information.

Membership

Independent members can join without being CILIP members ( CLSIG membership form) and current independent members should renew now.

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