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News, informed and current insights from the sector, emerging issues, latest trends in the workplace as well as papers and selected reports from our sector renowned magazine, Information Professional.
Fran Valentine, Library Manager at Downham Market Library, talks about Grab & Go bags, a simple but highly effective way to bring people into the library to discover a new love of reading.
In this, our penultimate blog post about the results of our recent Ethics Survey, we present an analysis of your views on what can be deleted from our current Ethical Principles.
CILIP CEO Nick Poole reports from 2017 political party conferences and reflects on the opportunities they offered to promote the library and information profession
CILIP's Knowledge and Information Management Group has chosen two winners for this year's Walford Award, which recognises significant contributions to the knowledge and information management profession.
New legislation being implemented across the European Union should help to end the ‘book famine’ of accessible versions of printed works, unless enactment is encumbered by the optional introduction in the UK of unnecessary
and restrictive compensation requirements.
CILIP's Cyber Security briefing delivers a warning that digital security issues are a global threat to business and
organisations - and information professionals must react.
CILIP is a registered nominating organisation on behalf of the library, information and knowledge management sector for the Expert Panels which will support the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 process. For
information about the nominations process, please refer to nominating panel members.
The UK can lead the way in Artificial Intelligence - but needs the right mix of access to data, skills and people to
make sure it does not get left behind.
Director of Health Libraries North, David Stewart, will become CILIP Vice President in the New Year and promises to
"honour the past and look to the future".
Balancing sensitivity of information and integrity of material in HM's Prison and Probation services while meeting the requirements of a new mandatory regime.
The National Wales of Library will honour one of the country's great war poets, Hedd Wyn, with a light show to mark 100 years since his death at the Battle of Passchendaele.
Professor Luciano Floridi talks to Information Professional about the philsophical problems that are emerging in the digital world. Everyone working in the infosphere needs to consider the ethical impact of their interactions and Professor Floridi asks how we should be shaping our digital lives.
Graeme Hackland of Williams Martini Riacing explains how his team is competing with sport's big spenders by making sure the information, data and analytics are all working hard to improve the technology.
Andrew Shenton explains how working with sixth-formers on information literacy skills helped him develop a framework to encourage students to recognise and apply important IL characteristics.