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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.
CILIP Cymru Wales on behalf of CILIP has just secured £135,000 funding from the Welsh Government. This has been awarded to support the delivery of the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan.
CILIP has launched Digital Leadership for Libraries, five open-access, online learning modules created for public library workers, volunteers and apprentices.
We encourage Wiley and other publishers to speak to consortia and to offer affordable and flexible models as outlined that will secure access to key content and ensure that key content remains at the heart of teaching.
Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information is a comprehensive guide to building, implementing and using taxonomies.
CILIP, the library and information association has today (11 October 2022) published a set of guidelines: ‘A Warm Welcome. Setting up a warm space in your community’.
You may have read the recent article in the British Journal of Psychiatry, about the strengths that autistic psychiatrists bring to the workforce and how they want them recognised..
She became the longest reigning British monarch in 9 September 2015, having ascended to the throne on 6 February 1952, aged 25. Celebrations to mark her Platinum Jubilee took place earlier this year.
There are many pre-conceptions about what a career within healthcare libraries will involve. Alison Day and Dominic Gilroy look at the reality and explain how you can find your own way in the profession.
The African library sector has been a key advocate for digital literacy across the continent, and a new book published today delves into what has been achieved and what more needs to be done
New professionals inhabit a more subtle environment, and however welcoming their new employers may be, not everything will be obvious. So how do new information professionals find their feet and stay focused on their career paths?
The Future of Enriched, Linked, Open and Filtered Metadata, is a comprehensive and accessible guide to creating accurate, consistent, complete, user-centred and quality metadata.
NEW professionals and those who had never presented at a Conference before were invited to give lightning talks at this year’s CILIP Conference and Expo.
The Green Libraries Partnership is pleased to announce fifteen selected projects under the £40,000 grant fund for public library services in England to support environmental activity.
Ideas in the world of metadata have developed significantly in the decade since the first edition of Steven Jack Miller’s Metadata for Digital Collections was published.
CILIP would like to express our solidarity for the staff, children, parents and performers at the Drag Queen Story Hour at Reading Central Library yesterday and condemn the actions of the group of extremists who interrupted the event.
The second edition of the bestselling Better by Design, the practical manual for anyone approaching a new library build or major refurbishment project, is published today.
The latest course to be awarded this accreditation is the new micro-credentials programme 'An Introduction to Information Management’ offered by the University of Glasgow.
Intellectual freedom has long been at the core of library and knowledge work and collecting, and has been at the heart of the work of CILIP and its predecessor organisations.
As Higher Education looks at how to decolonise curricula, Regina Everitt and Jess Crilly look at how decolonisation is being enacted in libraries in various contexts and places.
Sayf Al Ashqar, Director of the Central Library at the University of Mosul and CILIP Conference keynote speaker on how the library has literally risen from the ashes.
The technology and people underpinning the Library Consortium’s new game changing LMS explained by heads of service at Sutton, Kelly Saini Badwal, and Merton, Anthony Hopkins.
Paul Howarth discusses some of the problems and solutions for public library services in response to economists ' predictions of a period of high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis.
Executive Director of the Ukraine Library Association talks to Rob Green about life in Ukraine as Russia wages war on its neighbour, the role of libraries in the country and how moral support is keeping people strong.
Volunteering with CILIP can be an amazing opportunity to develop new skills, boost your own CPD and Chartership portfolio, expand your professional and social networks and share and expand your own knowledge.
CILIP announces that the Local Government Association has been contracted to undertake a Workforce Mapping Survey of the library, archives, records, information and knowledge sector.
CILIP Pathways and The National Archives announce that CILIP Pathways has been appointed as the end-point assessor organisation for the new Level 7 Archivist and Records Manager apprenticeship standard.
SLA, CILIP and CILIP SLG are united in their stance towards the news of an author visit being cancelled due to its belief the event fell “outside the scope of what is permissible in a Catholic school.
CILIP is inviting tenders for the Digital Leadership for Libraries programme that will support the implementation of the Public Library Workforce and Skills Strategy
Matthew Lawson, Director, Library and Student Support at Middlesex University talks about how the institution responded to mental health issues among students.
CILIP launches its new five-year strategy and action plan today, setting out the key themes and priorities that will define the future of our professional community.
Stéphane Goldstein discusses how the Media and Information Literacy Alliance (MILA) aims at securing greater recognition for information and media literacy (MIL) in society at large.
Head of the IOC's Information, Knowledge and Games Learning (IKL) Unit Chris Payne talks about putting on the planet’s biggest sporting event during a pandemic.
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