CILIP Yorkshire and Humberside’s first visit of 2017 will be to Insight, the Collections and Research Centre at the National Media Museum in Bradford.

Insight tours focus on the museum's object collections, but for us the curator will include a section on library provision, and talk us through a selection of materials from the library and archives.

Booking

This visit is free to anybody interested in libraries and archives, but places are limited. If the visit is fully booked, please add yourself to the waiting list - you will be emailed if a space becomes available.

How to get there

Insight is on the lower ground floor of the National Media Museum, which is a short walk from Bradford city centre, bus and train stations. There is no parking available at the museum, but the museum's 'how to get here' page recommends a few nearby car parks.

Accessibility

Insight is currently not wheelchair accessible, though the public galleries all have lift access. If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact cilipyh@gmail.com before the visit and we will do our best to help.

Facet Publishing have announced the release of the second edition of The Special Collections Handbook

This new edition from Alison Cullingford, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, is a practical day-to-day companion covering all aspects of special collections work.

Working with special collections can vary dramatically from preserving a single rare book to managing and digitizing vast mixed-media archives, yet the role of the information professional is always critical in tapping into the potential of these collections, protecting their legacy and bringing them to the attention of the wider public. This book offers up-to-date guidance which pulls together insights from best practice across the heritage sector to build innovative, co-operative and questioning mind-sets that will help them to cope in turbulent times.

Alison said “despite the challenges, the five years since the first edition have seen new reports, new collaborations , new publications and new standards; great progress has been made on digital curation, on tackling hidden collections, on doing what we do – better.”

Highlights of the new edition include coverage of new standards and concepts including unique and distinctive collections (UDCs); discussion of the major changes to laws affecting special collections; exploration of new trends in research including the rise of digital humanities, open access, the impact agenda and the REF; and consideration of impact and indicators, digitization and new skills frameworks from CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section.

Alison Cullingford is Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, where she is responsible for over 100 collections of modern archives and rare books.  The service was the first English university to achieve Archive Accreditation.  She also managed the Unique and Distinctive Collections project for Research Libraries UK.   An active member of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and many other sector groups, Alison also regularly presents at conferences, blogs and tweets on the importance of the special collections librarian.

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Press and review copies contact

James Williams, Marketing Manager, Facet Publishing
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0597
Email: james.williams@facetpublishing.co.uk

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The Special Collections Handbook, 2nd edition | Jan 2017 | 336pp | paperback: 9781783301263 | £59.95 | hardback: 9781783301270 | £119.95 | ebook: 9781783301287 | £59.95

The book is published by Facet Publishing and is available from Bookpoint Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)1235 827702 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 827703 | Email: facet@bookpoint.co.uk | Web: www.facetpublishing.co.uk. | Mailing Address: Mail Order Dept, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD. It is available in North America from the American Library Association.

CLSIG's Annual General Meeting will be held at Macfarlanes LLP on 28th March 2017 at 6.30pm to 7.15pm.  The AGM is free & open to all CLSIG members.

Following the AGM, at 7.15pm join us as we introduce our guest speaker Paul Pedley, who will be speaking on the topic of Privacy in Libraries. Paul's talk will explore why privacy is relevant in the library world, what the risks are of a data breach occurring (with examples illustrating how problems arise) and what information professionals can do about them.

Paul is currently doing a PhD on this topic at City University and has recently written an article on the relevance of privacy for the corporate library & information services sector, due for publication in the March 2017 issue of Business Information Review. A draft of the article can be found on his blog - https://libraryprivacyblog.wordpress.com/further-reading/privacy-libraries-in-corporate-sector/

After the presentation (& included in the ticket price) there will be a food buffet, wine and a chance for networking!

The social event is generously sponsored by Hammicks Legal Information Services - https://www.hammickslegal.com/

The Royal Mint Museum has one of the finest collections of coins and related material in the world.

Specialist librarians can help inform  a million decisions a day across healthcare.

This event supports the campaign by CILIP and HEE for evidence-based decision making in healthcare, supported by librarians and knowledge specialists. 

Meet, refreshments and register at the Laxton Library, Peterborough City Hospital from 2pm. The event will include talks on how to implement the #AMillionDecisions campaign and a look at health library services within Peterborough.

Find out more about the campaign at http://www.cilip.org.uk/advocacy-campaigns-awards/advocacy-campaigns/million-decisions

Save the date! The sixth DARTS research support conference will be held at Dartington Hall, near Totnes from 24th - 25th May 2018.

See the DARTS website for latest updates: https://arlgdarts.wordpress.com/ 

Further details to follow.

This course is supported by Share The Vision and RNIB, the Society of Chief Librarians, and the CILIP Community, Diversity and Equality Group – and is being organised and delivered by The Network.

The day aims to:

•To assess progress in implementing the Six Steps programme
To develop awareness of good practice in working with blind and partially sighted people
To develop skills in working with visually impaired people
•To begin to plan a programme for Make A Noise In Libraries fortnight, 5-18 June 2017

For further information and/or to book a place, please contact: John Vincent, john@nadder.org.uk.

This course is supported by Share The Vision and RNIB, the Society of Chief Librarians, and the CILIP Community, Diversity and Equality Group – and is being organised and delivered by The Network.

The day aims to:

•To assess progress in implementing the Six Steps programme
To develop awareness of good practice in working with blind and partially sighted people
To develop skills in working with visually impaired people
•To begin to plan a programme for Make A Noise In Libraries fortnight, 5-18 June 2017

For further information and/or to book a place, please contact: John Vincent, john@nadder.org.uk.

This course is supported by Share The Vision and RNIB, the Society of Chief Librarians, and the CILIP Community, Diversity and Equality Group – and is being organised and delivered by The Network.

The day aims to:

•To assess progress in implementing the Six Steps programme
To develop awareness of good practice in working with blind and partially sighted people
To develop skills in working with visually impaired people
•To begin to plan a programme for Make A Noise In Libraries fortnight, 5-18 June 2017

For further information and/or to book a place, please contact: John Vincent, john@nadder.org.uk.

This course is supported by Share The Vision and RNIB, the Society of Chief Librarians, and the CILIP Community, Diversity and Equality Group – and is being organised and delivered by The Network.

The day aims to:

• •To assess progress in implementing the Six Steps programme
• To develop awareness of good practice in working with blind and partially sighted people
• To develop skills in working with visually impaired people
• •To begin to plan a programme for Make A Noise In Libraries fortnight, 5-18 June 2017

For further information and/or to book a place, please contact: John Vincent, john@nadder.org.uk.

How can you demonstrate impact in your workplace?  How can you show your stakeholders the excellence and value of the service you provide?

We are offering a repeat visit to the Wallace Collection Library on Monday 15th May 2017 (2.30 p.m.)

The Wallace Collection at Hertford House in Manchester Square is famed for its Old Master paintings (including 18th century French painting), furniture and porcelain, plus a world-class collection of arms and armour.

The Library, initially created for the museum's curators, reflects the scope of the collections - particularly French painting and decorative arts, medieval and Renaissance decorative arts, porcelain, arms and armour  and the history of collecting.

It comprises around 30,000 books, including periodicals, exhibition catalogues, and auction sale catalogues and also includes (on long-term loan) the De Walden collection, consisting of rare fencing books from the 16th to the 19th century.

There are ten places available. Please email m.fisk@soas.ac.uk to register your interest by Friday 13th May at the latest 

Please meet at the Information Desk in entrance vestibule. There is a cloakroom to the left of the vestibule should anyone wish to leave coats and heavy bags

The visit will include talks on the history of the library and archives followed by a tour of the library.

Tea and coffee will be provided after the tour.

For maps and directions, go to http://www.wallacecollection.org/visiting

Nick Poole's speech at the CILIPSLG Day Conference in London on 7th February. 

Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to come and speak to you here today. I’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate Caroline Roche on becoming chair of the School Libraries Group and to pay testament to the huge contribution of her predecessor, Sue Shaper, and the SLG Committee, who put in so much time and effort to support this community. 

School libraries and school librarians are a part of the sector that is very close to my heart, and right at the centre of CILIP’s vision of the future of our sector. Yesterday, I attended the Literacy All Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster, where the National Literacy Trust and Experian launched a new dataset showing literacy indices across England. 

According to their findings, 86% of the Local Authorities in England have at least one ward where literacy rates are low or very low. Many have multiple wards. We know about the benefits of reading for pleasure, about becoming a reader for life, but what we seldom count is the cost of poor literacy on peoples life chances. We seldom look at the real impact of low literacy on our economy. 

As Dame Julia Cleverdon, Chair of the National Literacy Trust said yesterday, “if we’re going to compete globally, if we’re going to have an economy based on innovation and skills, we need to find every single last drop of talent”. And that starts with you. It starts with the transformative difference that a skilled, dedicated school librarian makes to the life of every single child. 

In a couple of weeks time, Chris Riddell and I are going to meet with Schools Minister Nick Gibb. We’re going to talk to him about two things. 

The first is how we can work together with Government to build a nation of readers. Because, in the words of the Reading Agency, “everything starts when you read”. I truly believe that getting the child the right book, on the right day, that fits with who they are unlocks their potential. 

I was recently interviewed about the power of libraries for Amnesty, and they asked ‘what is so significant about reading?’ And my answer was that while you passively consume other media, reading makes you imagine your way into the life of the character, it gives you empathy, the more you bring to it, the richer the experience. The screen can be a barrier, the book is a door. 

I am really excited about the LGBT reading pack that is being launched here today and the support that this will offer to librarians in reaching out to the children and young people they support and helping them to take control of their lives. 

The second thing we’re going to talk to Nick Gibb about is the school library of the future. Thanks to many of you, and in particular Tricia Adams, we have a collection of stories which show how school libraries and librarians have transformed the work you do. We’re going to use these to paint a picture for the Minister, “This is what a school librarian can do for you. Imagine if we had this in every corner of the country”. We want the Government to be excited about what school libraries are today - to realise how far we’ve come since the libraries of their childhood.

I want to work with you to lead a fightback for school libraries and qualified librarians and information professionals in schools.

I think it is nothing less than a moral outrage that, in an age when our children are crying out for literacy and skills, when we need to equip them to build a better future for themselves, as a Nation we have under-invested in librarians and library services, particularly in the state-funded sector. 

I also think that it is through your work that children get the library habit. If we allow ourselves to neglect school library services, we risk generations of people who don’t go on to us their public library, their college library, or the information services of their employer. In an age of propaganda, misinformation and a fundamental challenge to the idea of truth, we need to be able to say, proudly and strongly, that facts really do matter. Information literacy matters. Media literacy matters. And all of these principles stem from your work. 

So I want to talk to you today about how we work together to create a sustained push to re-establish the principle that every child has the right to enjoy a great, balanced education, and that that education should involve regular access to a qualified librarian. How we build a genuinely effective case for support that unlocks much-needed investment to enable us to make more of the difference that we know we’re capable of. 

Let’s be entirely clear – to be effective, our approach to advocating for school libraries and skills librarians has to be about money. It doesn’t matter how effectively you make the case for the impact of your work, if the head and governors you are making it to have no money, if they are having to find a 6th successive year of savings, they aren’t making decisions based on value and impact. 

The economic case for school libraries and librarianship is incredibly strong, locally and nationally. A competitive economy needs growing businesses. Growing businesses need skilled, confident people. Skills and confidence come from being a confident reader. Confident readers come from interacting regularly with a librarian early in their lives. 

But in making our economic case, we need facts. And as things stand at the moment, our evidence base for school libraries and librarians is very poor. We don’t know numbers. We don’t know patterns. We don’t know trends. I can’t correlate the Experian literacy data with school library provision to make the case to local budget holders. 

This is why in a couple of weeks time we’ll be sitting down with Barbara and SLG members and colleagues and looking at how we can improve the data about school library provision in the UK. This was one of the key recommendations from the Beating Heart of the School report, produced by the Libraries All Party Parliamentary Group. 

In building this case, I also want to look at who else is producing data that can help us. I would like to work proactively with SoftLink, for example, to build on and improve their annual School Library Survey so that we can really develop a rich picture of provision. 

I would like us to talk about Reader Development, and particularly whether we can take control of things like the Accelerated Reader programme, improve it and harness it to strengthening the case for librarians. 

And then, once we’ve improved our overall picture of what is going on out there, I want to work with you to reach the people who can make decisions which ensure that every child has access to a qualified librarian. 

I think that there are 3 audiences we need to reach:

•    Policy makers who are making decisions about expenditure on schools;
•    Heads and governors who are juggling priorities, and
•    Arguably most importantly – parents

To my mind, parents should be outraged about the risks that low levels of literacy present to the life chances of their kids. In exactly the same way that the health and wellbeing lobby campaigned over obesity and school dinners, I think we need to be working with partners like the National Literacy Trust to highlight the mental and intellectual wellbeing that stems from literacy. I am excited about our current work with Louise Goswami and her colleagues at Health Education England, the #AMillionDecisions campaign, and the opportunities this presents to link reading well with being well. 

Speaking to two Councillors yesterday about the National Literacy Trust’s findings, both resolved to find additional funds to support literacy programmes in their Authorities. In the face of overwhelming financial pressure on the state school system as a whole, we have to believe that new investment is possible. It is certainly essential. 

 And again, in exciting parents about what a school library and librarian can offer their child, we have such a strong case to make I have been lucky to visit many school libraries since joining CILIP and have been amazed by the dedication and creativity of the people who work there. I loved watching the candidate videos for the School Librarian of the Year Awards and seeing the love the kids have for their brilliant librarian. 

With policy makers, I think we need to be clear about what we want. In talking with many of you about the inclusion of libraries in OFSTED, I have heard many differing views. Some of you have said that OFSTED is essential to the future of school libraries. Others are concerned about the negative experience many teachers have had of being inspected. Others say that it will make no difference whether school libraries are included because the money isn’t there. Others have said that school libraries are already well-represented in OFSTED reports. 

My own view is that without some regulatory force, we are always going to be making a value-based case, but this is a debate which I welcome through the School Libraries Group. 

In convincing heads and governors of the value of investing in school libraries, we have already been working hard to understand and engage with their needs and expectations. Many of you will have participated in our inquiry into a ‘Quality Mark’ for School Libraries.

The message that came back from that was clear – teachers and heads believe there could be value in it, if it were robust and meaningful, but easy to get and free or very, very cheap. The challenge for us is to figure out how to reconcile those needs!

Many of you have been writing in to me every time a low-paid job is advertised, or a Learning Resource Centre Manager is expected to support a large and complex institution with little or no qualification. And I do write. But the response is often the same – by the time the advertisement has gone out, it is too late. We need to be influencing employers long before the advertisement is published to help them understand that a librarian should be considered on equal terms with the rest of the teaching staff. Which is why I have started reaching out to educators through their networks and events to try and bring this message to them. 

Many of you will know that we are currently voting on a completely new membership model for our community, This model is designed to be inclusive, affordable and to provide a platform to reach out to new colleagues. Put simply, the bigger we are, the louder our voice and the more effective we can be. Which is why I very much hope you will not only support this new model, but proactively go out and convince your friends and colleagues to join us, to lend their voices to what we’re trying to do for the whole profession. 

And finally, we need to be looking ahead to the need to keep innovating. I believe firmly that we can change the direction of travel for school libraries over the next 4 years. But looking beyond that, I know that the nature of the work you do is already changing rapidly. This is why next year we will begin work on a UK Information Skills Strategy which will allow us to keep developing the profession, to attract and support new talent and to continue to expand our skills to support the needs of information users. 

So I am excited about the future and the opportunities it presents. We have to work together to secure it, but in so doing I can’t imagine a better, more dedicated community to work with. Thank you and have an excellent afternoon. 
 

The European Patent Office (EPO) has extended an invitation to PATMG members and non-members to attend the "4th EPO-USPTO CPC Annual Meeting” with industry users on 5 April 2017.  The event will be held at the EPO premises in Vienna, Austria, the day before event East Meet Wests (6-7 April).

The objective of this meeting is to inform industry users on the latest and upcoming developments concerning the Cooperative Patent Classification. The meeting will also be an opportunity for you to share your views about the CPC. 

An agenda and venue details will be available in the weeks prior to the meeting.

Those interested in attending should send a message, by 17 March 2017, to the EPO point of contact Mr Nelson Das Neves

Click here to view previous meeting presentations relating to the development of CPC.

The audit findings are now available. 

The eBook accessibility audit sought to benchmark accessibility in eBook platforms by focussing on key areas of practical user experience to measure basic accessibility functionality. The audit was a "non-technical" accessibility survey restricted to things that can be quickly and easily checked by a non-specialist. The audit focuses on eBooks supplied to the education sector in the United Kingdom (rather than books for mainstream commercial consumption e.g. popular fiction).

Reports detailing the audit results for each platform have been added to the Individual Platform Feedback Reports section of the website. The table on page 6 of the reports may be particularly useful for Library staff - it gives an at-a-glance view of how well the platform met each of the criteria.  We will now be encouraging platforms to look at their own report and hopefully use it to inform developments.

There is also information on the Key elements of eBook accessibility which describes the criteria used to audit the eBooks along with an explanation of why each of them is important for accessibility. 

For questions or comments, please email ebookaudithelp@gmail.com

CILIP has launched its Call for Papers for this year’s CILIP Conference. Speakers are admitted free of charge to the conference on the day of their session. The Call for Papers closes on 10 February.

Date:

5 - 6 July 2017

Venue:
University Place
The University of Manchester
176 Oxford Rd
Manchester
M13 9QQ

Securing a positive future for the library, information and knowledge sector and the communities we serve will be the main focus for discussion and learning at this year’s CILIP Conference and will be covered across two main strands. The first strand of the conference, Future Trends, is aimed at decision-makers who want to understand, discuss and share insight into the key issues that will affect our sector – how to identify opportunities, successfully adapt and influence the outcome. For the Workshops strand, CILIP is looking for speakers who are experts in a specific field guiding delegates to develop their skills and their ability to innovate and create services that meet current and future needs.

Strand 1 - Future Trends

The Future Trends strand is aimed at Heads of Service, Senior Managers and Decision Makers, who want to understand, discuss and share insight into key issues that will affect our sector, both today and in the future. By attending these sessions delegates will be able to understand the key changes they may face in the future; find out how these changes will impact our sector, and what they can do to prepare and influence the outcome. The format of these sessions will be determined on the response from the call for papers and may be presented in a number of formats such as Q&A’s, panel discussions or presentations.  The sessions may consist of one or several submitted papers and should be relevant to a range of sectors.

There are six Future Trends sessions where subjects could include (but not limited to)

1. Public Policy 
   1. Devolution in public policy
   2. Digital
   3. Health and Social Care
2. Law
   1. Public law (safeguarding / prevent)
   2. IP Law (copyright / data protection)
   3. Privacy
3. Technology
   1. Data / Infrastructure
4. Learning
   1. Changing face of research
   2. Classroom of the future
5. Society
   1. Information literacy
6. Social Justice
   1. Equality and diversity
   2. Mobility
   3. Human rights

Strand 2 – Workshops

Workshops will be run by experts in a specific field to encourage discussion, sharing of knowledge and offer practical advice. This strand is aimed at practitioners, front line staff and managers who are looking to learn from other sectors, share experiences and knowledge and take away key messages and tools that can be applied in the workplace. Sessions should be relevant to a range of sectors. The duration, style and format of these sessions will be finalised following the call for papers and may vary between each session. Sessions may be repeated to allow delegates the opportunity to attend as many as possible.

1. Marketing

2. Copyright

3. Data Protection / Freedom of Information

4. Teaching Information Literacy

5. Evaluation and Impact

6. Customer Service

The opening keynote speaker at the conference is Dr Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. Dr Hayden is the first ever African American and first female to be appointed to the role at the Library of Congress, which holds more than 162 million items, including many unique items from America’s history. She is keen to make those resources more easily available and connect with people outside the limits of Washington, bringing benefits to citizens across the US. We have also opened Early bird registration with further discounts available for CILIP Members.

For more information and how to apply see http://cilipconference.org.uk/call-for-papers

YLG Eastern Training Day supported by ASCEL 'Wellbeing in Children and Young People : How Libraries can help' at The Library, Saffron Walden County High School, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 4UH

Cost: £30 for members £35 for non-members 

This training day will focus on how those working with children and young people can support their mental well-being. The speakers represent a range of perspectives and experiences and will be useful to all those who work with children and young people.

There will be a book stall provided by Heffers to purchase some relevant books. Tea and coffee will be provided, but you will need to bring your own lunch.

This project aims at conducting a foresight study to develop a technology roadmap for the next 10 years of Patent Analytics involving key stakeholders with relevant knowledge and expertise to push the boundaries of Patent Analytics.

To help shape the project we invite you to participate in this short 5-minute survey, which will help:

• Identify fundamental problems in Patent Analytics that needs solving to push the development of Patent Analytics. 
•  Identify suitable technologies that could be used to solve these problems and thereby enabling breakthrough developments.

The research project is run by Dr. Frank Tietze and Leonidas Aristodemou from CTM's Innovation and Intellectual Property Management research group, and is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

The Innovation and Intellectual Property group, within the Centre of Technology Management, at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, seeks expressions of interest for attendance at a one-day workshop on “The Future of Patent Analytics: A foresight study of breakthrough enabling technologies”.
 
The aim of the workshop is to identify future technologies, with the potential to deliver breakthroughs for substantially better analysing and visualising patent data to enable previously untapped use cases, through the engagement of academia and industry.

Attendance is for a selected group of about 20 participants who work towards pushing the boundaries of patent analytics. Hence, the aim is to have a balanced mix of academics, who specialise in patent information, innovation and decision-making, experts in novel technologies thus far hardly applied to patent analytics, lead users of patent data and software (e.g. large companies), and carefully selected representatives from innovative consultancies and vendors.

The workshop will take place from 09:00 – 17:00 GMT on Friday, 3rd March 2017 at:
 
The Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 
Alan Reece Building
17 Charles Babbage Road,
Cambridge,
CB3 0FS

Click here to register your interest.

Elisabeth Goodman, of RiverRhee Consulting, is a CPD training provider for CILIP and a member of the East of England branch.

She is offering members the opportunity to learn some knowledge sharing techniques, at no cost*, in exchange for participating in the filming for her latest promotional business video.

Participants will be taught some knowledge sharing techniques during the one to two hour filming session.  This will also give them a taster of Elisabeth's CILIP on-site "Good Practices in Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration" course.  Participants' identity will be anonymous if they prefer.

The date and time of the session will be scheduled based on participants' availability.  It will be held in South Cambridgeshire.

Please contact Elisabeth at elisabeth@riverrhee.com, or on 07876 130 817, to find out more and to reserve your free space.

*You will need to cover your own travel and refreshments.

This is an exciting award jointly sponsored by the English Speaking Union (ESU) and CILIP.  

Each year It offers the opportunity to an adventurous UK  library and information professional who is a CILIP personal member to explore a professional  theme or challenge by a study tour of library and related institutions in the USA or a Commonwealth country.

Normally the study tour will take place over 2-3 weeks in the Autumn but some have gone at different times of the year by agreement with the sponsors.  The successful applicant will receive an award of £3000 to undertake their proposed study tour with other practical help in regard to accommodation and introductions being available as well.

The successful applicant will be expected to share the outcomes of their study tour with the profession more broadly.

The 2017 award is now open with a deadline for applications of Wednesday 26 April 2017. The full details of the award can be found on the CILIP website at:  www.cilip.org.uk/travellinglibrarian

You will also find reports from previous winners.  Most recently they have come from university libraries, government libraries and public libraries but they are open to CILIP members in all sectors. 

The PPRG are looking for new committee members. We have a current vacancy for a Treasurer and will also shortly be looking for a new Secretary.

If you would like to join the committee or know more about it, please email the chair, Davina Omar, on davina.omar@uwl.ac.uk 

The PPRG committee is looking for new people following the departures of some long standing members. This is an exciting time to join the committee as we look to the future to see how we would like to develop the group and build on the successes so far. 

The committee is meeting on the 24th February and it would be ideal to have new members join us for this.

There is no need for you to be in a dedicated marketing role at your place of work to join the committee.  We are looking for people who have an interest in marketing and enthusiasm about the topic.  As a group, we are committed to representing all types of libraries and welcome committee members from all areas.

We look forward to hearing from you

Training opportunities during the Cambridge Information and IP Meeting (CIIPM) to be held at Homerton College Conference Centre, Cambridge, UK from 22nd - 23rd March 2017. They provide an opportunity to update skills and learn new techniques. 

• IP Matters is an introduction to the basics of IP and the types of protection available, how to build an IP portfolio, and how to search and retrieve the various forms of published IP)
• IP and Commercialisation introduces the business and management processes needed to successfully get technologies to market including partnering, licencing, and IP portfolio management
• Commercial Patent Search & Analysis shows how to search and analyse patent data to answer business questions and looks at CI, technology and market landscaping
• Freedom to Operate Search & Analysis covers different aspects of search and analysis of patent documents needed to prepare for FTOs

This simple booklet provides interesting facts and figures on the intellectual property landscape and how it has impacted on the UK economy in recent years.

It provides information covering:

• Patents
• Trade marks
• Designs
• Copyright
• Enforcement
• The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) 

The CILIP Travelling Librarian Award is an exciting award jointly sponsored by the English Speaking Union (ESU) and CILIP.  Each year It offers the opportunity to an adventurous UK  library and information professional who is a CILIP personal member to explore a professional  theme or challenge by a study tour of library and related institutions in the USA or a Commonwealth country. Normally the study tour will take place over 2-3 weeks in the Autumn but some have gone at different times of the year by agreement with the sponsors.  The successful applicant will receive an award of £3000 to undertake their proposed study tour with other practical help in regard to accommodation and introductions being available as well. The successful applicant will be expected to share the outcomes of their study tour with the profession more broadly.

The 2017 award is now open with a deadline for applications of Wednesday 26 April 2017. The full details of the award can be found on the link below, as well as reports from  previous winners.  Most recently they have come from university libraries, government libraries and public libraries but they are open to CILIP members in all sectors.