Working Internationally with ILIG: opportunities, benefits and barriers 

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Delivered via Zoom

The session will begin with a brief introduction to ILIG's work promoting international activity, including our strategic work, our events, bursaries, and journal. ILIG members will talk briefly about their varying experience of working internationally. This will be followed by an interactive discussion of CILIP's new International Strategy, focusing on the way in which CILIP and ILIG can provide support for different modes of international working in a post-pandemic world. Are travel bursaries the best way to do this nowadays? What are the barriers to international working and how can we best overcome them? And what are the benefits?

This session will provide:

>> A greater awareness of the variety of opportunities for working internationally
>> A greater awareness of the strategic and ethical questions raised by international working
>> Familiarity with Focus, ILIG's professional journal, and an awareness of the opportunity to publish on international work

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Get to know the incredible CILIP Communities - our volunteer networks who meet regularly to programme events, trainings and conferences and publish journals, blogs and newsletters. Any CILIP member can join our community groups, attend events and/or get involved with the committee and help shape the future of their work...

International Library and Information Group (ILIG) is a CILIP Special Interest Group (SIG) of librarians devoted to a shared special interest in global librarianship.

CILIP ILIG runs regular online and occasional face-to-face events about international librarianship best practice and networking.  Our Journal, Focus, is published electronically 2-3 per year, and has a proud 50+ year history.  We are always looking for contributions and articles (see the Focus page for more information).

Currently, we offer one bursary, the annual Alan Hopkinson (IFLA) Award, intended to help fund attendance at the annual IFLA Conference. 

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