Election of CILIP Group Committees 2012: Call for nominations for Local Studies Group
Members of the Local Studies Group are invited to submit nominations for Chair, Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer to serve for the period 1 January to 31 December 2012. There is also one vacancy for a committee member. The committee member will be elected to serve until 31 December 2014.
Getting involved in the Local Studies Group is a great way to influence the group’s activities, meet fellow local studies librarians and generally enhance your professional development. If you’d like to find out more about the work of any of these posts please contact the Honorary Secretary.
Candidates must be members of the Local Studies Group, excluding Associated Members, and nominated by two members of the Group entitled to vote.
Please submit nominations in writing to the Honorary Secretary by 31 December 2011. The Honorary Secretary for the Local Studies Group is Helen Pye-Smith, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU.
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The Local Studies Group supports those working in the local studies field by promoting standards, lobbying, discussing matters of interest in its periodical The Local Studies Librarian and by holding meetings, workshops and conferences through its regional network.
Our Mission Statement
The Local Studies Group of CILIP believes that Local Studies collections, and those engaged with the management and delivery of services associated with them, make a significant contribution to fostering and promoting community identity and cohesion, and improving the quality of people’s lives, by preserving and providing equality of access to our diverse local and national written and pictorial heritage. It is a core element of public library provision and, as such, it is fundamental to a thriving economy, democracy, culture and civilisation.
Our mission is to promote excellence in Local Studies services, to enable members to achieve and maintain the highest professional standards for the public good, and to ensure that our members’ views, concerns and interests are effectively represented. We aim to share best practice, facilitate networking and offer continuing professional development opportunities.
For more information read our 
Aims and Objectives, approved at the 2009 AGM or see About Us.
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