£24,480 to £29,070 pa pro rate
Good benefits, Central London
CILIP, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. We provide practical support for members throughout their careers and speak out on behalf of the profession.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly organised and enthusiastic Events Co-ordinator, to join us on a part-time basis for 21 hours per week to support our Marketing and Events team in the delivery of our varied events programme.
As an Events Co-ordinator, you will assist in supervising and co-ordinating events and training activities, liaising with speakers on their travel and equipment requirements and ensure they have all necessary programme information. You will also be involved in the preparation and distribution of marketing material and statistical information whilst assisting with general administration of events and training activities.
The successful candidate will have previous experience of event administration and be confident liaising with venues, suppliers and speakers. We are looking for a highly professional, personable and self motivated individual who has a high regard for customer service and that is comfortable working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
If you think you have the skills, experience and attitude to make a success of this role – we want to hear from you...
For more information email: personnel@cilip.org.uk quoting job reference: EC/511
Closing date: 9 January 2012 Interview date: mid January 2012
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A non-exhaustive list of some of the potential benefits to individuals and their employers/line managers of attending an IFLA conference.
International activities can be used to improve the library’s image by raising the library’s profile within the organisation and outside, especially if you can identify solid achievements made by your staff as a result.
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This video shows the contribution an effective school library can make to the educational, creative, emotional and reading development of children and young people-and the aspects of design that can enable this. It also signposts case studies and practical guidance to support library design.
This is for all school librarians involved in school library design and development, especially a new build.
Funded by CILIP School Libraries Group and the MLA (Museums Libraries and Archives Council).
View here (WMV, April 2007 - 27 minutes)
Accompanying the video are brief, practical 
'find out more' information sheets.
Topics include:
NB. The video was previously available in a DVD format.
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Information relating to events from before the years displayed is available on request by contacting the CILIP events team at events@cilip.org.uk or 020 7255 0540.
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Full details of successful events organised by CILIP Events for library and information professionals can be found by clicking on the relevant archive year in the left-hand menu. Many have retained supporting information, including programmes and speaker biographies.
Links to 2008/09 events have now been removed from the site and are available on request by contacting the CILIP events team at events@cilip.org.uk or 020 7255 0540.
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CILIP is a founder member of IFLA - The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions- the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. IFLA is the global voice of the library and information profession. As such, it is very important that CILIP is involved in IFLA and supports it.
CILIP seeks to ensure that the views and aspirations of UK LIS professionals are well represented in this vital international organisation at all levels, including the Governing Board, Professional Committee, Core Activities (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters [CLM] and Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression [FAIFE]).
CILIP works with and through IFLA on important international initiatives such as the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, where IFLA has an official delegation lobbying on behalf of the LIS community worldwide.
We also seek to provide opportunities for CILIP members to enrich their professional lives. Helping CILIP members to become elected to IFLA Sections (Special Interest Groups) and facilitating their involvement with them is one of the main ways of doing this. In addition, Several CILIP members are committee officers which offers further scope for CPD.
CILIP both sends a delegation and financially supports a group of members to each annual conference. Since 2000, this has included the full sponsorship of around three members to attend their first IFLA conference. The delegation includes a small number of CILIP staff working on international matters impacting on CILIP and its members with IFLA, including representatives of the Home Nations.
CILIP's IFLA membership number: GB-0001
By providing travel grants to attend these conferences, we aim to:
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In 2011 CILIP awarded a first-timer's grant to Sue Roe to attend the 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. Sue Roe is the Children's Services Librarian at Wirral Libraries.
The conference took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico between 13 and 18 August 2011. Sue found the conference: "fascinating, thought-provoking, lively". She took a place on the Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section Standing Committee and gave those meetings and sessions priority.
Sue's report introduces us to the theme and tracks of the conference and reports on the sessions she attended.
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On return from the ESU/CILIP Travelling Librarian tour, the successful candidate produces a report. Past recipients have found the study tour a rewarding personal and professional experience which has often helped advance their career.
2011
In 2011 the travel grant was awarded to Jane Rawson, Vere Harmsworth Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Jane visited thirteen institutions with significant library and achival collections for American history in order to learn more about the collections. Jane is a US Studies Librarian and says in the executive summary to her report:
"I have returned to Oxford with a much greater appreciation of the breadth and depth of the physical collections in the institutions I visited, as well as an understanding of the issues and constraints surrounding the process of making parts of these collections available digitally..."
Her report gives details of her follow-up work to share the knowledge she has gained via a blog, reports, guides and talks.
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Keith Wilson, Liz McGettigan, Mike Hosking and Maria Cotera have been elected as Councillors of CILIP.
The new Councillors will serve on CILIP Council from 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2014.
“I would like to thank all the candidates who stood for election,” said Leader of Council, Isabel Hood, “They all got involved in lively discussion on the ehustings forum and at the hustings event. I wish the elected Councillors every success over their three year term.”
The election turnout was 23%, which is 3% lower than in 2010 but consistent with 2009.
CILIP Council consists of twelve individuals who are elected by the membership and are Trustees of CILIP. Up to three additional Trustees can be co-opted. Council meets several times a year and also regularly communicates by email. Council sets and oversees CILIP’s overall strategic direction and Council must ensure that CILIP acts within its charitable objects at all times.
Read a Councillor job description
Find out more about how Council works
Read election manifestos and supporting statements for the elected Councillors:
Keith Wilson
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Press contact:
Mark Taylor, Director of External Relations, CILIP
Email: mark.taylor@cilip.org.uk
Phone: 020 7255 0654
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CILIP Communities allows candidates access to more information about you as a mentor.
If you have already registered on the CILIP Communities login and update "My details" with information you think would be useful to potential candidates.
If you haven't used CILIP Communities before then follow the instructions when you click on "Register on this website". Part of this process will lead you to add information about yourself on your CILIP communities profile.
These pages can only be accessed by CILIP members who have registered to use CILIP Communities.
We then can add a link from your listing on the mentor by region pages. Just email quals@cilip.org.uk to let us know it's been done.
Your profile:
As a mentor the important information for you to complete will be in Biography and About.
If you have a digital photo and would like to upload it under the Avatar tab, please read this advice from the Web Editor, Stephanie Baxter:
Most of you are keen to include images on your websites. Please be careful about resizing images. You should do this before loading them. If you load a huge file and then resize it onscreen - unfortunately this condenses the file and you end up with something which doesn't look very good and is still 1Mbyte in size. If you only need to resize the image you can do this at the following site: http://resizr.lord-lance.com/default.asp
Or download the free software Irfanview if you want to be a bit more ambitious and crop and edit the image:
http://www.download.com/IrfanView/3000-2192_4-10491149.html
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£24,480 - £29,070 per annum + benefits
CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. We provide practical support for members throughout their careers and speak out on behalf of the profession.
We are currently looking to recruit a highly organised and professional Membership Officer to join us.
Within the role, you will take responsibility for providing excellent and efficient support and customer care to new and rejoining CILIP members, aiming to ensure a straightforward and simple experience. As Membership Officer, you will be responsible for dealing with member and prospective member enquiries and for ensuring that all membership packs are mailed out in a timely manner. Regularly updating the membership database, you must ensure that all payments are accurately and efficiently processed whilst supporting the Membership Administration Manager in preparing reports.
We are looking for candidates with a positive and helpful attitude who have demonstrable experience of supporting people in a customer service environment. With the ability to work as part of a team, you will be able to manage your own personal workload in this fast-paced environment. Experience of working with databases is essential, preferably but not necessarily gained in a membership organisation.
If you think you have the skills, experience and attitude to make a success of this role – we want to hear from you.
For more information email: personnel@cilip.org.uk.
Closing date: 24 January 2012 Interview date: 1 February 2012
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£28560 - £34680
Good Benefits, Central London
Take technical responsibility for CILIP’s whole online presence.
CILIP is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. We provide practical support for members throughout their careers and speak out on behalf of the profession.
Your role will be to maintain, support and develop CILIP’s online presence as well as its other internet/web based systems and to assist/advise/support the numerous stakeholders, contributors, editors and users. Your first major project will be to redevelop our website www.cilip.org.uk using an Open Source Content Management System such as Drupal or Joomla as well as maintaining the current website using SharePoint 2007.
You will also be working with the ICT and Web Team in 2012 to:
You will be working in a small happy ICT and Web team, where you will need to:
For more information email: personnel@cilip.org.uk quoting job reference: ICT & W/311.
To apply for this post click here.
Closing date: 6 January 2012 Interview date: 17 January 2012
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Universities have developed a wide range of doctoral programmes from the traditional PhD through to professional doctorates such as the DBA. The development of research skills in both research students and early career researchers is often high on the agenda of individual universities.
Research students have a wide range of academic needs which often requires the help and support from librarians and information professionals. This programme will help academic librarians and others to identify and support the needs of these students.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will be of value to any staff supporting the academic needs of research students. This includes academic librarians and learning support workers. It also includes individuals involved in providing e-learning support e.g. through a virtual graduate school.
This is a practical programme. Learning and teaching activities involve discussions, case studies and other practical activities.
Barbara Allan
Barbara is Director of Learning and Teaching at the University of Hull Business School and a National Teaching Fellowship. Barbara’s areas of interest includes the development of academic and professional skills, she has a number of publications including Supporting Research Students and Blended Learning, Facet Publishing and also Study Skills for Business and Management Students, Open University. Barbara is a Member of CILIP.
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The landscape of learning and teaching is rapidly changing. There is an extensive range of web-based resources as well as paper-based techniques that may be used to enhance training sessions.
This one day programme will focus on practical approaches to incorporating innovative learning and teaching methods into training and coaching sessions.
This is a practical programme. Learning and teaching activities involve discussions, case studies and other practical activities.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will be valuable to anyone involved in delivering training or coaching sessions in the context of library and information work. The programme is open to individuals who are beginning to deliver training and coaching sessions for their organisations as well as experienced practitioners.
Participants are encouraged to bring along outlines of their own training sessions as they may develop these during the event.
Barbara Allan
Barbara is Deputy Dean at the University of Hull Business School and a National Teaching Fellow. Barbara’s areas of interest includes the development of academic and professional skills, she has a number of publications including Supporting Research Students and Blended Learning, Facet Publishing. Barbara is currently working on a new book for Facet Publishing, The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries
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Increasingly library and information workers are involved in delivering training sessions to large groups. Some people find this a daunting prospect.
The aim of this one-day programme is to equip individuals with practical approaches to designing and delivering effective large group sessions including the use of interactive activities.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will be of value to any staff involved in delivering large group sessions to students or customers. Many of the ideas and approaches considered in this workshop are of value to library and information professionals working with any large and diverse group.
This is a practical programme. Learning and teaching activities involve discussions, case studies and other practical activities.
Barbara Allan
Barbara is Deputy Dean at the University of Hull Business School and a National Teaching Fellowship. Barbara’s areas of interest includes the development of academic and professional skills, she has a number of publications including Supporting Research Students and Blended Learning, Facet Publishing and also Study Skills for Business and Management Students, Open University. Barbara is currently working on a new book for Facet Publishing, The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries
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International students come to study in the UK from across the world and they arrive with a range of expectations. Many of these students have studied in educational systems that are based on different approaches to learning and teaching than those commonly used in UK universities.
Consequently, international students may require specialist support to enable them to adopt the academic skills required in higher education in the UK.
This one day programme will focus on practical approaches to supporting international students in higher education.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will be of interest to any staff working with international students in universities and colleges in the UK. Many of the ideas and approaches considered in this workshop are of value to library and information professionals working with any diverse group in higher education.
This is a practical programme. Learning and teaching activities involve discussions, case studies and other practical activities.
Barbara Allan
Barbara is Deputy Dean at the University of Hull Business School and a National Teaching Fellowship. Barbara’s areas of interest includes the development of academic and professional skills, she has a number of publications including Supporting Research Students and Blended Learning, Facet Publishing and also Study Skills for Business and Management Students, Open University. Barbara is currently working on a new book for Facet Publishing, The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries.
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Many library and information workers deliver drop-in sessions to their colleagues and service users e.g. students. Frequently, you do not know the topic of the session until you are faced with it.
This programme will help staff in an organisation to design and deliver effective drop-in sessions even when there is a minimum of notice.
By the end of the course, participants will have:
This programme will be of value to any staff involved in delivering drop-in sessions to students, customers or colleagues. Many of the ideas and approaches considered in this programme are of value to library and information professionals working with any time-pressured training sessions e.g. telephone or interactive web-based sessions.
This is a practical programme. Learning and teaching activities involve discussions, case studies and other practical activities. Participants are encouraged to bring their current training materials and session plans to the event.
Barbara Allan
Barbara is Deputy Dean at the University of Hull Business School and a National Teaching Fellowship. Barbara’s areas of interest includes the development of academic and professional skills, she has a number of publications including Supporting Research Students and Blended Learning, Facet Publishing and also Study Skills for Business and Management Students, Open University. Barbara is currently working on a new book for Facet Publishing, The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries.
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Teaching/training has become an essential part of the library and information worker's life. But many have not been trained in how to do this effectively.
This highly practical programme provides library and information workers with the skills they need to design and deliver successful training sessions.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme is relevant to people new to training as well as those who are more experienced. It covers the skills required to deliver training events lasting from 30 minutes to six hours , to individuals or groups.
This is a practical programme. Participants will be expected to deliver mini-presentations and mini-workshops in a supportive environment. Participants are encouraged to bring materials relating to their own training sessions to the event.
Barbara Allan
Barbara is Deputy Dean at the University of Hull Business School and a National Teaching Fellow. Barbara’s areas of interest includes the development of academic and professional skills, she has a number of publications including Blended Learning and Project Management, Facet Publishing. Barbara is currently working on a new book for Facet Publishing, The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries.
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This is a highly practical course looking at Web 2.0 technologies that library and information professionals can use in their organisation to work more efficiently and effectively.
Participants will learn how to promote themselves and their libraries, service or organisation using social networking and other user generated content (UGC) websites.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme is of interest to any library and information professional who has an interest in web 2.0 technologies and wants to use them within their organisation. Participants should have an email account they can access during the day to validate registration with a variety of resources.
Phil Bradley
Phil is a well known trainer, author and conference speaker who has worked with CILIP for many years. He has written several internet related books, particularly ‘How to use Web 2.0 in your library’. He is also an accredited trainer to the European Parliament.
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This course offers a practical introduction to Web 2.0 resources that will help raise the profile of your services and enable you to deliver them differently.
Participants will receive an overview of Web 2.0 and will spend the day predominately on practical work; creating a weblog, learning how to use RSS and how to create a wiki.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will be of interest to any library and information professional in any sector who wants to learn more about this subject area and get up to speed. Participants should have an email account they can access during the day to validate registration with a variety of resources.
Phil Bradley
Phil is a well known trainer, author and conference speaker who has worked with CILIP for many years. He has written several internet related books, particularly ‘How to use Web 2.0 in your library’. He is also an accredited trainer to the European Parliament.
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This workshop introduces Twitter, the microblogging service. Participants will learn what Twitter is, why it’s useful within a library context, what libraries and librarians are doing with it and its role within an overall library context.
During this programme, participants will have an opportunity to create an account, start following people, posting ‘tweets’, using the search options and exploring other Twitter applications.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will be of interest to any library/ information professional who needs to keep up to date with new resources and anyone who needs to communicate effectively in their job. No technical understanding or ability is required or expected.
Phil Bradley
Phil's background is in the information profession and he is a highly experienced trainer, web designer and Internet consultant. He is the author of a number of books published by Facet Publishing and is well known for his Internet Q & A column in CILIP Update magazine.
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Even Google™, although an excellent search engine, cannot include the whole set of Internet information resources in its cache. This isn’t slack searching by Google™ but rather, amongst other reasons, because of the significant technological problems in bringing copies of certain materials back to the cache. However, for library and information professionals this ‘invisible’ material is often of high quality.
Library and information staff need to go beyond Google™ both for the ‘invisible web’ and other search engines, which offer different functions appropriate for the specific types of information required. This course will not dislodge Google™ as a search engine of choice but will highlight alternative approaches for specific enquiries.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will be of interest to library and information staff from any sector who mainly, or exclusively, use Google™ and who may be missing something elsewhere. It is also suitable as a follow-up to the Getting the most out of Google™ programme.
Terry Kendrick
A daily user of the Internet, Terry originally trained as a librarian and worked in reference libraries. In addition to teaching Internet skills to librarians Terry also teaches consultancy, information and internet skills on the UEA MBA programme.
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Google™ is without doubt the information professional’s general purpose search engine of choice but many may perform searches simply by entering subject terms. This can often bring back good results but not always, because information professionals are not using Google™ in the most effective way.
This one-day programme will teach information staff how to bring the most relevant hits to the top of the search list and even get the answers to quick reference enquiries without having to click through to other sites.
By the end of the course participants will have:
This programme will benefit anyone who needs quality time with Google™ that cannot be achieved at the enquiry desk, and those new to the Internet who want to learn fast but thoroughly. This course is relevant to library and information staff in all types of library from public to academic, business to specialist.
Terry Kendrick
A daily user of the Internet, Terry originally trained as a librarian and worked in reference libraries. In addition to teaching Internet skills to librarians Terry also teaches consultancy, information and internet skills on the UEA MBA programme.
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Information Literacy work is growing exponentially across higher education. Librarians are working to engage as many students as possible, producing materials/tutorials for the digital environment as well as devising face-to-face activities. What is likely to make this ’teaching’ most interesting and effective? What different approaches are possible?
This programme will address the issues and practicalities associated with designing effective IL activities/sessions.
This course provides participants with an opportunity to: review what aspects of information literacy they currently teach and how they teach them; share ideas and examples with colleagues; begin to adapt their teaching sessions/ materials using current ideas from international research and practice
By the end of the programme participants will have:
The programme will be of interest to HE insitutions with library staff who teach information literacy to groups and/or write IL on-line resources, or want to review and adapt their existing practice. Please note that participants must already have a grasp of learning theory and principles. This programme is not about the skills of teaching (e.g. how to manage groups)
Sharon Markless
Sharon Markless works at King’s College London helping colleagues to enhance their academic practice. She is also a consultant with Information Management Associates, doing library research and development work across the sectors. Sharon has published extensively on information literacy and evaluating library impact
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How do you make database training interesting? How do you design sessions so that they interest and engage participants? Can innovative methods be used in database training?
By the end of the course, participants will have:
This programme will be of interest to any staff involved in delivering database training sessions to students, customers or colleagues. Many of the ideas and approaches considered in this programme are of value to library and information professionals working with any IT-based training sessions.
This is a practical programme. Learning and teaching activities involve discussions, case studies and other practical activities. Participants are encouraged to bring their current training materials and session plans to the training.
Barbara Allan
Barbara is Deputy Dean at the University of Hull Business School and a National Teaching Fellowship. Barbara’s areas of interest include the development of academic and professional skills. She is author of a number of publications including Supporting Research Students and Blended Learning, Facet Publishing. Barbara is currently working on a new book for Facet Publishing, The No-nonsense Guide to Training in Libraries.
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