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Welcome to the Diversity Group website


As the newest of the CILIP special interest groups, we hope you will join the Group and help to promote and celebrate diversity within the library and information profession.


Diversity Group and Community Services Group Merger - May 2012 update

The CILIP Council agreed at its meeting on the 26th March 2012 to support the merge of the Community Services and Diversity Groups. John Dolan,  Chair of CILIP Council has written "Council warmly welcome your proposals and we are grateful for all of the hard work and commitment that you have shown in getting the plans this far".

The working title of the merged group will be “Community, Diversity and Equality Group: Libraries transforming lives”

Interim Committee meetings of the CDE group will take place Tuesday 12th June and Tuesday 9th October, 11.15am - 3pm at CILIP Ridgmount Street.
The Interim members will be:

Chair: David Percival; Vice Chair: Linda Constable; Treasurer: Derek Kinrade and Secretary: Rose Johnson.
Diversity Group: Andrew Russell, Karen Berry, Carly Miller, Briony Birdi, Jacqui Lichtenstern (+ Christie Ikeogu and Gulshan Iqbal as sub group reps).
Commnity Services Group: Tom Berry, Philip Wark, Annastasia Ward, John Vincent, Jane Barnes, Neil Harvey

Previous details on the merger is available on the Minutes and agendas section of the Committee page. This is Diversity Group members only access. For any queries on the merger please contact David Percival, the chair of the joint group, email: David.Percival@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

The minutes from the final Diversity Group Committee meeting and joint Diversity Group/ Community Services Group meeting on 22 February 2012 are available on the Minutes and agendas section of the Committee page.

The Diversity Group held an EGM (Extraordinary General Meeting) on Wednesday 2 November 2011 at CILIP to vote on a merger with Community Services Group. The vote was in favour of the merger.

You can watch the webcast of the meeting by clicking on this link: http://bambuser.com/channel/CILIP/broadcast/2094962 to see what went on, what questions were asked and the discussion that took place.

 

Diveristy Group newsletters

The Diversity Group Newsletters for 2011 and 2012 are now available to download from the Newsletter section.

 

Diversity Group sessions at Umbrella - July 2011

The Diversity Group ran four sessions in partnership with other CILIP Special Interest Groups at Umbrella 2011 on 12-13 July 2011. Details of sessions and selected presentations are available to download from our Conferences page. 

For more information about the conference go to the Umbrella 2011 website: www.cilip.org.uk/umbrella2011 

 

Diversity Group Committee meeting and AGM 2011

Wednesday 8th June 2011, CILIP

The Diversity Group AGM and Committee meeting took place on Wednesday 8th June 2011 in CILIP, London. 

The Diversity Group AGM featured a panel chaired by Guy Daines, Director of Policy & Advocacy Unit of CILIP. Both Guy Daines and Margaret Watson, Director of Leading Edge Training (UK), spoke on diversity and its relevance for the advancement of the profession. Members were also invited to attend the International Library and Information Group (ILIG) Informal get together - A Travelling Librarian encounters the Caribbean in the US: collaboration, partnership and the Haiti Earthquake after the AGM at CILIP.

The details of the chair's report from the AGM and other committee documents  including the list  of the 2011 Diversity Group committee members are available on our Committee page. 

 

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  • Diversity Group on Facebook
    The Diversity Group now has its own Facebook page. Log onto Facebook and click the Like button to stay up to date with all the latest Diversity Group news and connect with other members. 
    Diversity Group Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/DiversityGroupFacebook
  • Diversity Group CILIP email
    Make sure that you are registered with the CILIP website to get your monthly email from the Diversity Group. We would also like to know your email address to make sure that you are up to date with all of the Diversity Group's activities! Email us to get on our mailing list at: karen.berry@talktalk.net
     

Diversity Group webpages

Please email your suggestions or content for the Diversity Group webpages to Ruth Murphy (Web editor) at ruthie_murphy@hotmail.com

 

Last updated: 11 May 2012
 

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Diversity Group merger - updates

We will keep all our members updated on developments on the merger with the Community Services Group.

For the latest news please see the  Diversity Group members only section of the Diversity Group website under Minutes and agendas section of the Committee page. (You must log in first as a CILIP member to access this page)

 

 

Diversity Group at Umbrella 2011

Selected presentations are now available to download!

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For details of Diversity Group sessions/ presentations at Umbrella 2011 go to our Conferences page

 

Diversity Group on Facebook

The Diversity Group is now on Facebook - make sure you join us there!  

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