Conferences
The Diversity Group runs a conference every two years and takes part in Umbrella, the CILIP conference, as well as presenting the Diversity Awards.
Diversity Group at Umbrella - 12-13 July 2011
The Diversity Group ran four sessions in partnership with other CILIP Special Interest Groups at the Umbrella 2011 conference: www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2011
Session 1 Tuesday 12 July 11.45am – 1.00pm
With Community Services Group and Publicity and Public Relations Group
- Digital inclusion and social change - Young people’s access (or not) to web 2.0 and social media in libraries. In schools and colleges the level of access varies wildly. Policies are often applied with little knowledge about the uses of social media and how young people interact with it, and libraries are therefore complicit in excluding this already marginalised group and contributing to the digital divide. Emma Hadfield, Diversity Group Committee and Learning Resources Manager, Thomas Rotherham College
Presentation (PDF - 1MB)
Session 2 -Tuesday 12 July 2.15pm – 3.30pm
With Community Services Group
- Libraries in the Big Society - Big Society or Big Con? - Keeping social justice alive and kicking in a time of austerity - John Vincent and John Pateman, authors of ‘Public Libraries and Social Justice’, will offer their own comprehensive review of one of the most crucial issues affecting libraries today. John Pateman, Head of Service – Libraries and Archives, Lambeth Council and John Vincent, Networker, The Network - tackling social exclusion
Presentation - John Pateman (PDF - 404KB)
Edited notes on presentation (PDF - 28KB)
Session 3 – Tuesday 12 July 4.00pm – 5.15pm
The Global Librarian: Showing our Diversity and Internationalism through CPD Opportunities
With International Library and Information Group and Prison Libraries Group
- Yes you can! Going abroad on work placements. Almuth Gastinger,Senior Research Librarian, Library, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Conferences, confidence and career development: going international with your research. Emma Hadfield, Learning Resources Manager, Thomas Rotherham College
- From a leading global university to a prison in Africa: finding your path and following it. Maria Cotera, Education Advisor, African Prisons Project
- The roving librarian: establishing networks away from home. Nicholas Robinson-Garcia, PhD Student, Research Group, EC3, University of Granada
- Visiting US prison libraries with the Travelling Librarian Award. Sibylla Parkhill, Librarian at HMP&YOI Bronzefield, and Travelling Librarian 2008
Session 4 - Wednesday 13 July 11.15am – 12.30pm
With International Library and Information Group
- Skills and professionalism - Equalities issues in libraries: the emerging tensions. Panel discussion on the emerging tensions between different equalities, and on the specific skills that library workers need in order to address these. The discussion will be introduced by the panellists in three brief presentations.
Skills for equality presentation - Shiraz Durrani (PDF - 228KB)
- Am I really a sinner? Where do LGBT issues fit into the equalities framework? John will look at key equality issues for library staff, the skills needed, and most particularly the need to balance personal views with working within an equalities framework. John Vincent, The Network
- Can’t read, won’t read - Irfan's presentation will confront the notion of public library spaces for refugees and young people, using examples from the UK and around the world as to what constitutes reading, and what that means for library spaces in the future. Irfan Master, Librarian, Children’s Author and former Project Manager, National Literacy Trust
- Out of many, we are one. Maxine will explore the idea that it is from strength gained by being ourselves (our "differences") that we come together as equals. She will focus on what the "One" might look like, what it often is, and strategies to avoid the temptation of claiming authenticity as an excuse to avoid dealing with equalities. Maxine Miller, Library and Collection Manager, Tate Library and Archives
Please visit the Umbrella website for more information: www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2011
Last updated: 10 September 2011