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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.
David Smith, Deputy Director, Knowledge and Information Management, at Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities discusses the challenges facing KIM in the Civil Service
The Cilip Libraries Rewired Conference was a dynamic environment filled with discussions, presentations, and ideas. One concept stood out to me as a creative and cross-cultural collaboration — the Uncensored Library in Minecraft.
This statement is issued by CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, the national body representing librarians and information professionals in Northern Ireland and the UK, in response to the lack of adequate funding for public library services.
Global leaders, thinkers, and activists from industry and politics will gather this weekend in Dubai for the first day of COP28 to rethink, reboot, and refocus the climate agenda.
The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL), has joined the Green Libraries Campaign as a partner organisation. The Green Libraries Campaign is the next phase of the Green Libraries Partnership.
A new piece of work to support advocacy work in libraries has put ethics and values at the heart of those conversations. Senior Lecturer in Information Studies at University of Glasgow, Dr David McMenemy, created the REVEAL toolkit and here he explains how to make best use of it, and why it is needed.
Nick Poole is to step down as CEO from the end of March 2024, after eight years of transformative leadership through which CILIP has become firmly established as the leading voice for the UK’s library, information and knowledge management profession.
Taking the skills learned as a librarian and applying them to digital projects has provided a space to learn and develop for Denice Penrose, Director, Technically Minded, is an Information Professional and Learning Technologist.
CILIP member, Josiah Richardson, is a Senior Library Assistant at An NHS trust in the Knowledge and Library Service. In this case study, Josiah discusses how AI has simplified and sped up reporting and increased his knowledge of Excel
As part of our look at CILIP accredited courses we talk to Oona Ylinen, a part-time LIS student at UCL and Academic Support Librarian at University of Essex. Here she explains how she chose her course and her career and how an employer’s support with flexible working hours opened the door.
The scholarly communications landscape is undergoing constant transformation, making research dissemination and societal impact a complex topic that can overwhelm even the most experienced authors.
The CILIP store is now open for business with a range of gifts and items that are inspired by the wonderful work of librarians and information professionals.
The CILIP AGM 2023 took place on Tuesday 24th October 2023 in a hybrid format from the CILIP offices in the British Library and online via Zoom, in CILIP's year of celebration of 125 years of Royal Chartership.
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has awarded its highest accolade, the Honorary Fellowship, to Joseph Coelho, Alison Wheeler, and Briony Birdi in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the library and information sectors.
CILIP Honorary Fellow Joseph Coelho, award-winning poet, playwright and author, talks about the heroic work of librarains in his Fellowship Acceptance Speech
Lancaster University Library takes the lead in decolonisation to reach staff and students of the university, with a diverse range of engaging, and enriching activites, initiatives, and projects.
Tech-focused conference Libraries Rewired takes place on 10 November at London’s Code Node. Machine Learning Librarian at Hugging Face Daniel van Strien will be joining Digital Curator at the British Library Mia Ridge for a session on Harnessing AI and Machine Learning.
Wright & Wright Architects have worked on a number of major library, archive and gallery projects, with a focus on sustainable design. Here, Passivhaus Designer and Associate at Wright & Wright Kirsty Shankland looks at how sustainability and environmental impact considerations are delivering new standards for the sector.
This year, Libraries Week went Green, with libraries from Jersey to John O’Groats hosting more than 280 environmental and sustainability activities,* from 2nd-8th October 2023.
This year Libraries Week - the annual event that helps libraries across the country run engagement events for their communities – has gone green, and Libraries from Jersey to John O’Groats are taking part
The strategic framework has been produced to support prison library providers and prison library staff to develop, deliver and promote prison library services. The document examines some of the key characteristics of a good prison library service and the outcomes that they support.
School Librarian Phyllis Ramage is just about to start her second year as a judge on the Yoto Carnegies awards. Like all judges, she joined for a two-year period so she will be standing aside after the 2024 winners ceremony next summer.
Libraries are becoming crucial champions of free and equal access to information and entertainment, writes Caroline Ball.
In a world dominated by digital streaming, the vinyl record and CD, often dismissed as obsolete relics of a bygone era, are making a remarkable comeback that defies expectations.
Managing Safe and Inclusive Public Library Services: A practical guide launches today, to provide a clear, decision-making framework to support public library services as they deal with complex and challenging issues.
There’s a law attributed to the economist Rüdiger Dornbusch: “Crises take much, much longer to come than you think and then they happen much faster than you would have imagined.” Therefore, Dornbusch goes on to say, you have the opportunity to be wrong twice
Throughout my career, leaders and management teams have often asked me, why should they support Communities of Practice (CoP) in their organisations, and whether CoPs create business value, or just distract employees from value creation that drive business objectives?
CILIP supports and recognises the tireless contributions of our members and the broader professional body with our Honorary Fellowship and Mentor of the Year awards. This year the deadline to nominate has been extended to 15th September 2023.
No career follows a linear path – there are bound to be unexpected twists and turns along the way. For School Librarian Graeme Boyd, international jobs have provided an extra dimension to his career.
Leadership was the focus of CILIP Conference 2023, but speakers and delegates did not always fit into a traditional notion of leadership. Marlène Rak shares her experience of being a first-time speaker at this year’s CILIP Conference.
A list of great ideas for getting the most out of a libraries conference, especially if its your first one or if you want to get more out of your time there.
Leadership was the main theme of CILIP Conference 2023, and for an academic librarian and recently-joined CILIP member, the programme of keynotes and seminars that covered topics from imposter syndrome to rethinking leadership was welcoming and insightful.
The appetite for horizon scanning among public librarians is huge – as we have recently seen at the CILIP Conference – but the number of public librarians paid to do it is minimal.
Caroline Ball, Academic Librarian at the University of Derby writes about why Librarians should be talking more about statistics following a report by the House of Commons Library
Twitter’s billionaire CEO owner doesn’t take many things so seriously, so its no surprise he didn’t take searchability into account when he decided to rebrand the social media platform as the letter ‘X’.
"[...]But one theme has stood out almost more than any other -
which is that all of our discussions here, from AI to sustainability, knowledge management to engaging children and young people with books and reading, have been about exploring our common humanity in a new landscape [...] " (member only content)
CILIP Conference 2023 - An action-packed conference that brought leadership to the "top-of-mind " took place in the 125th year of CILIP's Royal Chartership. Read how it all came together in on 12-13 July 2023.
As celebrations continue for the 125th anniversary of the granting of our Royal Charter, we are delighted to announce the full CILIP 125 List, and introduce the next generation of professionals who will help lead the sector into a new age of information.
When 43 editors resigned from two Elsevier journals in April they not only transferred smoothly to a new title at a new publisher, they also successfully highlighted growing concerns about the profits of the largest commercial publishers from open access publishing.
Gloucestershire County Council has declared a climate emergency and is encouraging people to adopt a more sustainable and climate-friendly lifestyle, Gloucestershire Libraries’ new Greener Together project complements this wider initiative.
The first cohort of pilot initiatives to increase digital health literacy in communities across England is now complete. CILIP connected librarians and information professionals with NHS professionals to deliver an innovative range of programmes.
CILIP CEO, Nick Poole takes a deep dive analysis into the results of Workforce Mapping 2023, looking at what the data means for the libraries, knowledge management and information industry.
CILIP CEO, Nick Poole joined leading writer, poet, former Childrens Laureate, broadcaster and columnist Michael Rosen and Margaret Greenwood MP (Wirral West, LAB) in the first of a series of events to engage MPs and make sure every child has access to a great school library.
Some sectors are already far ahead of others in the adoption of AI, with legal, academic, and health libraries already using the new technology for a range of activities
CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, is deeply concerned about the decision to hold the IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) 2024 in Dubai and the impact of this decision on our professional community, particularly our LGBTQ+ colleagues.
The Blue Book of Nebo (Firefly Press), written and translated by Manon Steffan Ros, has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for Writing, and Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear, a graphic novel has received the Medal for Illustration.
At some level most of us have imposter syndrome. What does it cost us and the organisations we work for? Jess Pawley and Jo Walley will be exploring the problem and possible solutions on the second day of CILIP Conference 2023.
How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown.
The libraries and information sector has a highly experienced and predominantly female workforce, with 40 per cent of staff having more than 20 years of work experience, according to data gathered for the Workforce Mapping 2023 survey.
Our new Business Plan sets out how we will fund and deliver the ambitions from our 5 year strategy and action plan, ‘We Are CILIP’. Our vision is of a professional community, dedicated to changing lives through quality information, services and expertise.
The current regulation and oversight of library services in England means that the Government is failing in its duty of accountability to the taxpayer and in its specific duty of sector development and improvement.
In this 45 minute podcast, Nick Poole, CILIP CEO covers the evolution of public libraries and calls for new approaches from government in light of the digital and AI revolutions that are already transforming how we access and understand information.
The CILIP Copyright Champion Award 2023 has been awarded to Benjamin White, Researcher at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Management, Bournemouth University.
Rebecka Isaksson, a keynote speaker at this year’s CILIP Conference,explains why she thinks we must continue to explore the positive potential of AI and work life balance.
During the Local Government and Housing Committee, 4th May 2023, Amy highlighted the importance of a quality-based approach to strategy and funding built on professional standards, and solid data and reporting.
Unfair and unethical approach to e-content licensing by publishers not only inhibits academic librarians from doing their job, but it also places real pressure on other library budgets
CILIP would like to congratulate Their Majesties, King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the occasion of their Coronation at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May 2023.
CILIP and library associations from 16 countries have come together to issue a pan-European statement highlighting the changes needed to correct the unfair and unbalanced situation libraries and their patrons face around eBooks.
Controversy is never far away from Professor Louise Cooke – it is a subject that has informed her work, research and teaching since she began life as a librarian.
It’s arguably one side of the same coin as funding, determining what we can do with our resources, and so how far readers, researchers and learners can enjoy effective library services.
We are excited (and a little nostalgic) to announce that CILIP has relocated from Ridgmount Street to our new space at the British Library, in the year we celebrate the 125th year of our Royal Charter.
A new iteration of the Dungeons and Dragons film hiting cinema screens in spring, school librarian and author of Let’s Roll: A Guide to Setting up Tabletop Role Playing Games in your School or Public Library, Lucas Maxwell explains how to get started.
The reasons for defending access to information can sound abstract: “There’s a lot of abstraction when you’re doing policy at a global scale,” says Jennie Rose Halperin, Executive Director of Library Futures.
130 delegates representing libraries, both public and from other sectors, and local government came together to discuss the unique position libraries hold in educating, raising awareness and taking action on the environment.
Copyright is underpinned by important balances which attempt to address the complex and nuanced relationship between creators’ exclusive rights and specific copying activities which are deemed to be “fair” to rights holders and such, support certain public interest copying activities.
Great School Libraries is a three year evidenced-based campaign, and phase 2 has now been complicated, highlighting library service inequalities across regions and society.
Beth Montague-Hellen, the new Head of Library and Information Services at the Francis Crick Institute, asks how big technological changes can be achieved without the help of a crisis.
CILIP Pathways has been confirmed as the end-point assessor for the Level 7 Archivist and Records Manager apprenticeship launched by the National Archives and led by Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES).
A conference to highlight the role that libraries and their staff can play in the climate change agenda was one of the key goals set out by the Green Libraries Partnership when it was established last year.
The Yoto Carnegies 2023 longlist launches today, with nominations that range from stories of intimate family life to sensitive introductions to societal issues.
Stuart Hoddinott is a researcher for the Institute for Government’s public services team. Here he explains why a profile-raising performance from public libraries during the pandemic won’t save them now, and how they might change that.
The advent of digital collections, and the notion of a ‘digital library’, prompted something of an existential crisis, presaging the potential demise of libraries as physical places, writes Thomas Shaw, Associate Director: Digital Innovation and Open Research at Lancaster University
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