Library and Information History

OCTOBER 2009 UPDATE

Now available - Winter 2009 newsletter.

The Annual General Meeting of the Library and Information History Group will be held at 2.30 pm on Wednesday 11 November at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. All members are welcome.
 
The AGM will be followed by a 90 minute tour of the Library and its special collections. Please let Dorothy Clayton
(dorothy.clayton@manchester.ac.uk) know if you intend to attend the AGM and/or tour.

Papers for the AGM are available online - Annual Report 2008/9 and Treasurer's Report.

The AGM will be preceded at 12.30 pm by a Group Committee meeting at which members are welcome to observe. Please let us know in advance if you wish to attend as an observer.

JULY 2009 UPDATE

Appointment of new Treasurer

Votes have now been counted and independently verified, and we are delighted to announce that Kathleen Ladizesky has been elected to the post of Honorary Treasurer. We welcome her to the committee. It is a positive sign of the health of the Group that two such very able candidates came forward for this vital (but often considered unglamorous) role and we would like formally to register our thanks to both for standing for the position. We would also like to thank all those members who voted in the election.

Conferences and Events

We are an active Group, and encourage participation from the membership as a whole. Events in 2009 have attracted good audiences. Our Group conference in March brought together delegates from around the world, giving a fascinating collection of papers reflecting the range of interests encompassed in library and information history. The conference also resulted in the recruitment of a dozen new members for the Group. Talks arranged directly by the LIHG have been well-attended, prompting lively discussion. We have also been delighted to sponsor a successful series of seminars on library history held at UCL, and will be supporting a further series for the 2009-10 academic year. The next LIHG event will be a private tour of Bromley House in Nottingham, followed by a talk by Paul Sturges on 4 September (see events listing for further details). The committee is now hard at work drawing up the programme for 2010. We have received a number of suggestions for speakers and venues for Group events, but would be delighted to hear further ideas from members. If you have a particularly interesting library near you who might be able to offer a tour, a venue for a talk or informal meeting, if you have heard an inspiring speaker on some aspect of library and information history, or indeed would like to share the results of your own researches with a wider audience, please let us know. Discussions are well underway on the possibility of a joint international conference in 2010 with colleagues in Germany and Scandinavia, as well as a UK one day conference. More details will follow once dates and venues are confirmed.

Website

You will see some changes to the website in coming months, as CILIP prepares to implement a new content management system. Older material on the site will disappear from our webpages during this period. If you need to access information that used to be here, please get in touch with our web manager using the contact form. Although pages have had to be removed to facilitate the transfer of files, everything has been archived, and we should be able to provide copies for you. Please bear with us during the transition.