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Bookings for both the residential weekend and day tickets are still open.

The weekend will open from 2.00pm on the Friday. We plan to have local artists, librarians, information professionals, academics and authors as guides, workshop leaders and guest speakers. The weekend finishes after breakfast on the Monday morning.

Writers joining CILIP Weekend as workshop leaders

We are pleased to announce that Lake District writer in residence, Reshma Ruiz and famous journalist / writer Nadia Kabila Barb will jointly lead the writing workshop at the CILIP Residential weekend.

Saturday 7 October 2023

9am - coach leaves for Jodrell Bank

10.00am - Jodrell Bank lecture theatre:

National Schools' Observatory - Dr Stacey Habergham-Mawson, Senior Lecturer and Project Manager at the Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University.

11.00am - Visit to Jodrell Bank Exhibitions and site

Jodrell Bank is a world-leading deep-space radio observatory and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cheshire. The site hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.

12 midday - break for lunch

1.00pm - coach leaves for Port Sunlight

4.00pm - House of Memories Cymru | Tŷ Atgofion Wales

Lizzie Salter, Programme Manager, House of Memories, National Museums Liverpool

Lizzie is Programme Manager for the multi-award-winning House of Memories, a flagship dementia awareness programme for National Museums Liverpool.
Lizzie has spent the last decade involved in community programmes across an extensive national and international network of cultural, arts, museum and health and social care partnerships. Her work has been recognised for invaluable social impact and for its creativity and ability for collaborative processes. Lizzie has a notable career at National Museums Liverpool, working with cross-sector organisations to create dementia friendly programmes.

6.30pm - Dinner

7.30pm - Speaker: Gemma Wright, Yoto Carnegie Book Awards Judge

Sunday 8 October 2023

9am - Informal visits to the Gladstone Library

10.00am - Information, Library and Knowledge Management roundtable:

Amy Staniforth - Resources Discovery Team Leader, University of Aberystwyth and former CILIP Cymru Wales Relationship Manager 

Deborah Owen, Library and Customer Services Manager, Denbighshire Libraries

Gemma Wright, Academic Engagement Librarian for the School of Nursing and Allied Health at Liverpool John Moores University.

Dr Louisa Yates, Director of Collections and Research at Gladstone's Library.

Laura-Jane Ferguson, CILIP KIM Committee Member and School Librarian.

11am - break

11.30 am - Free time in Hawarden

1pm - Lunch

2pm - Workshop: Reshma Ruiz and Nadia Kabila Barb will jointly lead a writing workshop

4pm - break

4.30 - Art workshop - Helen Stevenson, artist based in Nottingham.

6.30pm - Dinner

7.30pm - Speaker: Diana Neville, conductor of the Boots Orchestra, studied music at the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Cardiff.

Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Membership of Gladstone Library is available free of charge to guests for the duration of stay:

Day delegates now only £50 per day (with sponsorship from the CILIP Cymru Wales Kathleen Cooks Fund).

The weekend will be of interest to CILIP members and colleagues from all sectors.  It will earn you 8 CPD hours and improve skills from the following sections of the CILIP Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) 

• 10.4 Engaging with stakeholders
• 11.8 Reflective practice
• 13.8 Networking skills
• Improve understanding of wider library, data, information and knowledge sector context and links with galleries, archives, and museums

Members of CILIP Cymru are eligible to apply for financial support from the Kathleen Cooks Fund.