CILIP’s popular one-day Employers Forum returns in 2021, providing an excellent opportunity for senior staff to share knowledge and learn with their peers. This year, we are running a hybrid event and this page is for those for those attending in person. To attend online, please see the registration page for the online event.

This page contains information for those attending in person

The 2021 CILIP Employer Forum will be introduced by Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian and author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack.

There will also be an opportunity for delegates to benchmark their service beforehand in the following areas:

• Knowing your users
• Influencing people
• Evidencing value and impact - social impact
• Consolidating digital gains and turning them into long-term practice
• Planning for sustainability - a proper Green recovery

You can book your place on the library tour and at The King's Arms on the Attendee Selections.

This event is generously sponsored by CB Resourcing and Collection HQ

The programme for the event is as follows: 

For those participating in the library tour, our schedule begins a little earlier:

	9.45-10.30 - Tea, coffee and networking For delegates attending the optional library tour
	9.45-10.30 - Library tour (optional)
	10.00-10.30 (am) - Tea, coffee and networking for delegates not attending the library tour
	10.30-10.50 - Welcome and introduction Richard Ovenden: Bodley's Librarian and author of Burning the Books. A History of Knowledge Under Attack
	10.50-11.10 - Presenting the findings from the self-assessment Nick Poole: CILIP CEO
	11.10-11.30 - Influencing and advocating Stephen Wyber Policy and Advocacy Manager, IFLA
	11.30-11.40 - Break
	11.40-12.50 - Discussion session How well do you know your users? How do you make friends and influence people; how well-networked are you? What would you do to improve?
	12.50-13.40 - Lunch and networking
	13.40-14.00 - Libraries responding to the climate change crisis Blerina Hashani Public Policy & Campaigns Manager, British Library
	14.00-14.10 - Break
	14.10-15.30 - Discussion session Evidencing value and impact Consolidating digital gains Planning for environmental sustainability
	15.30-16.00 - Wrapping up and conclusions
	16.00-18.00 - Drinks, nibbles and networking The Wadham Room in The King's Arms, 40 Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3SP. This is Oxford's oldest pub and is very close to us.

Speakers

Richard Ovenden

Richard Ovenden has been Bodley’s Librarian (the senior Executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society.

Richard serves as Treasurer of the Consortium of European Research Libraries, as President of the Digital Preservation Coalition, and as a member of the Board of the Council on Library and Information Resources (in Washington DC). He has written extensively on professional concerns of library and information management, on the history of photography, and has written a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge, Burning the Books.

Richard was awarded the OBE in The Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2019.

Blerina Hashani

Belrina is the Public Policy and Campaigns Manager at the British Library. She is currently co-leading the Library's COP 26 campaign and its response to climate change. Prior to joining the Library in December 2019, she was a parliamentary adviser in the House of Commons and supported the All Party Parliamentary Group on Libraries.

Stephen Wyber

Stephen is Manager, Policy and Advocacy at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, working as part of a team which covers issues from the UN's 2030 Agenda to copyright, human rights and heritage. His team works both to make the case for libraries globally, and to support advocacy at the national, local and individual levels.

Jo Cornish

I am responsible for CILIP’s culture, content and sector support and I work alongside the CEO to set our strategic direction. A Fellow of CILIP, with over 20 years’ experience as a practitioner, I have a recent background in standards, assessment and quality assurance. I specialise in building strategic partnerships and business development. I am a passionate advocate for the importance of library, knowledge and information roles and the value they bring to society. Away from the office I am known to visit bridges and obsess over baseball.

Nick Poole

As CEO of CILIP, I am responsible for supporting our fantastic team to deliver for our members and for championing our profession. I studied Modern Languages and Linguistics and have a postgraduate qualification in the History & Philosophy of Science. Over the past 20 years, I’ve held various leadership roles in libraries, museums and the wider culture sector. I live in South West London with my family and dog.