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CILIP Employers Forum: Future ready library and information services
CILIP Employers' Forum Forum 2025: Future-proofing your service
CILIP’s popular one-day Employers' Forum is hosted this year in London at Lambeth Palace Library just ten minutes from Waterloo station. The Employers' Forum provides an excellent opportunity for senior staff to share knowledge, network and learn alongside their peers. And we are also offering an optional pre-workshop behind-the-scenes tour of Lambeth Palace Library and post-event coffee or drinks in a cafe bar. The day's focus is on how you can future-proof your service. From thinking through your next steps on AI to best practice in top-level engagement through to the skills of the future and embedding library and information services in the digital transformation process, this event is set to provide you with valuable take-aways. This event is generously sponsored by EBSCO Information Services. Objectives In this Forum, delegates will - Understand the relevant results of the new CILIP/University of Sheffield AI survey and report from the Survey author, Dr Andrew Cox.
- Hear how information professionals and librarians in the HE sector have successfully embedded themselves in the process and the key take-aways for your organisation.
- Learn from CILIP on engaging with key decision-makers. How successful have you been and what lessons can we share?
- Hear from course leader Virginia Power on the changes she made to her courses following last year’s Employers’ Forum.
- And discuss with CILIP's Sonia Ramdhian the future skills needs in your team.
- Get a chance to build contacts with peers across the profession.
Optional extras
As has become customary, we are pleased to offer an optional library tour before the workshop and post-event networking over drinks.
You can book your place on the library tour and networking drinks on the Attendee Selections.
Pricing structure
| CILIP Standard, Standard Plus, Value Employer Partner |
One free place Additional places available at £100+VAT |
| CILIP Premium Employer Partner |
Two free places. Additional places available at £100+VAT |
| CILIP Individual Member |
£180+VAT |
| Non-Member |
£250+VAT |
Employer Partners should email employerpartners@cilip.org.uk for the discount code
Indicative schedule
| 9.30 am | Delegates for the tour should arrive. Tea and coffee served. Please grab your badge on the ground floor and make your way to the Mezzanine Floor for tea and coffee. | | 10.00 am | Optional behind-the-scenes tour | | 10.30 am | Tea and coffee served for those not on the library tour. Please grab your badge on the ground floor and make your way to the Mezzanine Floor for tea and coffee. | | 11.00 am | Welcome from Lambeth Palace Library Bancroft Room, Eighth Floor
Pip Willcox, Head of Lambeth Palace Library
Introducing the 2025 Employers’ Forum
Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO, CILIP
Some words from our sponsor, EBSCO Information Services | | 11.10 am | Session 1: Top-level engagement Bancroft Room
Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO, CILIP
Hear from Louis on engaging with key decision-makers. How successful have you been and what lessons can we share?
| | Midday | Session 2: First opportunity to hear the results of the joint CILIP/University of Sheffield AI Survey Bancroft Room
Dr Andrew Cox will reveal the results of the recent survey and highlight the findings of particular importance to employers.
Audience discussion | | 1.00 pm | Lunch Bancroft Room | | 1.45 pm | Welcome back from CILIP Bancroft Room
Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO, CILIP | 1.50 pm | Session 3: Digital Transformation; libraries as leaders of changes Bancroft Room Peter Findlay, Subject Matter Expert for Digital Scholarship in the content and discovery team at Jisc As cuts in UK higher education start to bite, it has become clear that all universities should act strategically in deploying digital technologies. Jisc’s Framework for digital transformation in higher education, offers a comprehensive approach to managing the dramatic change which is taking place in all our lives now that the world of business and work is largely driven by digital technologies.
What role do libraries play in this? Find out how Jisc is working with libraries to develop the Digital Transformation Library Lens focused on what libraries already bring to Digital Transformation and how they can share their knowledge to influence digital strategy in the wider university. | | 2.40 pm | Short break | | 2.50pm | Session 4: What skills do employers want? Bancroft Room
Sonia Ramdhian, Director, Sector Development, CILIP
Sonia uses CILIP’s PKSB to elicit the future skills needed in your team. | | 3.30 pm | Session 5: CILIP’s plans for 2025, Bancroft Room
Jo Cornish, Chief Development Officer, CILIP
Jo outlines what CILIP has in store for the year ahead
| | 4.15 pm | Optional Networking drinks
Nearby at The Glitch, 134 Lower Marsh, London, SE1 7AE | | 6.00 pm | End |
About EBSCO Information Services EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is a leading provider of online research content and cutting-edge search technologies serving libraries, healthcare and medical institutions, corporations, and government agencies worldwide. As an AI-enabled services leader, EBSCO offers comprehensive solutions from research, acquisition management, subscription services and discovery services to clinical decision support and patient care, learning, and research and development. EBSCO provides institutions with access to content and resources to serve the information and workflow needs of their users and organizations. Our commitment to AI-driven innovation positions EBSCO at the forefront of the industry, enabling us to meet the evolving needs of the information services landscape. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com About Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury and preserves the national archives of the Church of England. Its mission is to promote public access to its collection by welcoming researchers and through public engagement, such as outreach and cultural and academic partnerships. The current building, completed in 2020, is the Library's first purpose-built home and the first new building on the site for some 185 years. At the heart of its design is care for its internationally important collections. All stores in he building are temperature- and humidity-controlled with fire suppression systems. As the Palace lies on a flood plain, the archive repositories are located above any potential flood risk. The building frame is designed so that the archive stores are as airtight as possible, and all air is filtered to prevent pollution damaging the books and archives. More information here.
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