Following active lobbying by CILIP, the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has announced that the withdrawal of the library and information apprenticeship framework will be delayed until October 2017. Apprenticeship frameworks are used by employers and Further Education colleges in England to provide consistent national standards. All frameworks are being withdrawn and replaced by apprenticeship standards developed by employers and sector bodies.
Initially the SFA proposed that the framework for the library and information sector would be withdrawn in December 2016, which would have left apprentices, employers and colleges without clear guidance and standards. CILIP wrote to Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Robert Halfon MP explaining the likely impact of the proposals and lobbied Minister for Civil Society Rob Wilson MP, who actively intervened on behalf of the libraries sector.
Nick Poole CILIP Chief Executive said, “There are so many fantastic opportunities working in libraries and information management supporting communities, businesses and Government with their information needs. Having a successful apprenticeship scheme is critical to attract, retain and develop a broad range of talented people with the right attitude and skills. I am delighted that CILIP has helped to secure the interests of our sector. We’re grateful to Rob Wilson for taking up the issue in Government and to the Skills Funding Agency for allowing more time to develop industry-led standards, providing learners and employers with greater clarity and certainty.”
The library and information framework covers libraries, archives, records and information management services. Government advice says that learners who start a library and information apprenticeship between now and October 2017 will be unaffected by the changes.
As the UK’s library and information association, CILIP is responsible for developing the library and information workforce of the future. This includes working with employers and learning providers to open up new pathways into the profession. As part of this, CILIP will be seeking expressions of interest in working with us to develop standards and frameworks for apprenticeships in libraries, information and knowledge management.
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Rob Mackinlay explores the challenges of managing data in the rapidly evolving environment of F1 motor racing, and talks to Graeme Hackland, IT director at Williams Martini Racing about how effective IM can give a small team a competitive edge.
ALL Formula One teams compete for the same goal and are pitted against the same competitors but the playing field is far from level. In 2016, the four biggest teams had budgets over twice that of Williams Martini Racing. Despite this, Williams generally maintains performance on a par with its richer peers.
Information management and information technology are now key areas in which Williams has been able to level the financial inequality. The structure of the Williams Group itself helps in this process. This includes both F1 and the Williams Advanced Engineering division which works with partners and clients from many sectors where F1 specialist knowledge can be applied.
This side of the business adds an extra dimension to the capabilities of the F1 team. While it is important to protect intellectual property in F1, Graeme Hackland, IT director at Williams, says: ‘F1 data has a relatively short life, a couple of seasons and then no one else is really interested. But for Williams Advanced Engineering, a lot of the technology and intellectual property they are working with is very valuable so we needed to prove to our customers that we are protecting their information and we know where it is. The audit capability we have with our technical partner Dtex means we can tell what’s been printed, what’s been emailed, what’s been stored on any devices and whether someone is on our network or at the factory or if they are mobile. It’s important to our audit capability and to some of our key customers who want us to do those regular inspections.’
Last year Williams Advanced Engineering signed a £17m contract to design and manufacture a system for distributing power and data around the British Army’s next generation armoured fighting vehicle. Projects like this require a high level of security. The technology to achieve this is implemented group-wide so Williams’ Formula One division benefits as well. ‘It’s also key to F1’, Graeme says, ‘at a time like now when next year’s rules are so different the teams are going down different routes it’s really important that we all protect our information. In collaboration with our partner Dtex, we spend a fair amount of time looking at where our data is and getting alerts if there’s any misuse of data and dealing with it on the day it happens.’
These IP fears are not unfounded after a 2007 ‘spygate’ case involving McLaren and Ferrari. F1 is a small world and there is a movement between teams – Graeme came to Williams from Lotus in 2014 – and he says: ‘I’ve got to prove to the technical team that their data is safe and that if someone has left the team nothing has gone with them.’
Formula One cars can have 150-300 sensors collecting data. A number of secondary systems analyse this data or combine it with other data sources. For example, an app developed by one of Williams’ tech partners, Avanade, receives data from the trackside data warehouse integrating sensor, weather and other data feeds in real-time to isolate the impact of tyre status on performance.
Graeme said that the management of this car data had defined the sport for decades: ‘I think teams put huge effort into this area, ever since cars first became connected in the late 1970s.’ He says Williams ‘makes sure that each engineer has a specific specialisation at the track and they don’t need to see all the data. Only two performance engineers watch everything, but pretty much everyone else filters it down to what’s relevant for them.’
Much of this is done with alerting tools that allow engineers to set baselines and watch specific parameters. He says ‘a lot of that is about making sure that the right piece of data gets to the right engineer at the right time.’
These, however, are becoming increasingly complex, hence increasingly involved technology partnerships. ‘We’ve deployed a new strategy system this year which is light years ahead of what we have been using at Williams before. You can usually do a pretty good job of your own cars’ data because you’ve got all of it. But it is incredibly complex especially when you start to add in competitor analysis.’
There are pressures between providing live data and data for future research and development. As a result, the car is set up differently to accommodate different data gathering processes ahead of a race. Graeme says: ‘On the Friday of a live weekend we capture a lot more data from a car than we do on a Saturday and a Sunday. That data feeds into the rest of the factory: so to the wind tunnel, to the vehicle science, the vehicle technology guys and into our drivers’ simulator. We use the Friday to capture R&D data and then Saturday is all about getting the car getting ready for qualifying for the race. Then you go racing on the Sunday.’
Similarly, reference to historic data is kept to a minimum on the day. Graeme says: ‘On the day itself we’ve got people back at the factory who will have done some work with historical data. That is in the lead-up to a race. A big part of a race engineer’s job is to be doing that analysis across multiple years in the weeks before a race. Often by the time they’ve got to the track they’ve got a pretty good idea of how they want to set the car up based on everything we’ve learned over the previous years. Then it’s all about learning from the data that’s been generated now.’
Graeme says in F1: ‘There’s lots of stuff that I’d love to play with and see whether it has an application but we’re resource constrained and time constrained so we’re more likely to come at it with technology that is already established.’
However, he adds: ‘If we just use established technology only then we’ll effectively be following the other F1 teams and some of them are bigger than us and have more people and it won’t give us a competitive advantage.’
The group structure enables Williams to compete with better funded rivals at the cutting edge of technology: ‘In F1, we come very much from the position “we have a problem how can we solve it” while Williams Advanced Engineering are looking for technologies that they can exploit – taking knowledge and know-how from F1 and applying it to all sorts of other interesting industries – as such they will be more proactive.’
Some of this advantage comes from the larger partnerships with the likes of BT, which links the UK factory to the track-side race team, and Avanade, who ‘drive how we move data around and how we improve workflows and how we improve our strategy systems at the track.’
But start-ups are also key players in the information arms race with other teams. Again these companies are usually accessed via Williams Advanced Engineering and Graeme says: ‘If we can get access to that kind of technology before its mainstream and before the other F1 teams are aware of it, we can get a competitive advantage. ‘Those are the ones we don’t put in the public domain… because right now the other teams aren’t aware of them. We’ll talk about the work we’re doing with BT and Avanade, but we don’t disclose the things we’re doing with other niche companies.’
While some advances remain under the radar, other mainstream information juggernauts are approaching. For example, Graeme sets 2020 as potential date for the arrival of effective 3D printers on the trackside. This capability is likely to disrupt existing information management systems because the timetable for working on the car changes dramatically. Graeme says: ‘In the past, when we’ve experimented with 3D printing, the parts just weren’t strong enough to put on an F1 car.’ But he added: ‘I’ve seen the first 3D printed bicycle in carbon so they’re getting to the point…where you can apply it in a motor racing environment. I think by 2020 we should be looking to have 3D printing manufacturing capabilities at the track so the designers can work up until the Thursday night before the race instead of a week or two-weeks before as we currently do.’
Other areas of interest in the mainstream like machine learning and artificial intelligence are filtering their way into F1.
Graeme says: ‘Where you have repetitive data we want to try and automate that especially on some of the real-time decision making that we’ve got at the track for F1. Some areas are obvious candidates, like the rulebook. When there’s an accident into the first corner they are likely to red flag it and I think a role that AI has in the future is to look at that. We currently rely on a couple of humans to do that but we think there’s a future for putting that into AI so it can learn from the decisions that the FIA has made in the past and predict what decisions they might make in the future.’
Graeme believes there is a lot of potential in this for F1 and the wider group: ‘Some of the areas, even for automation robotics around your help desk – when people call in looking for triage on help desk calls – a lot of it is repetitive so could we use a robot to filter those calls. If we could prove it in IT, we could expand it to faults that happen at the track with the car. We could have a robot answering that call and then at the point where you need human intervention it will learn from what the human did and the next time someone calls it’ll refine what it asks and keep refining that process. I think that will apply to an F1 context at the track with a car and car faults and parts that we are shipping out to the car.’
Rob Mackinlay (rob.mackinlay@cilip.org.uk) is a freelance reporter.
This article was originally published in CILIP Update Magazine, November 2016.
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Have you seen the new Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals Anniversary Blog? Authored by resident blogger Jake Hope presently the Chair Elect of the Youth Libraries Group, Jake will be reading and reviewing all of the past CILIP Carnegie Medal winning books during the anniversary year. In 2017 the CILIP Carnegie Medal reaches its 80th year and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal its 60th. Find out about all about the wonderful celebration events, resources and activities at http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk//80-years.php and get involved!
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The Yorkshire & Humberside Member Network are running a Professional Registration workshop aimed at existing candidates or those considering undertaking the qualifications of Certification (ACLIP) or Chartership (MCLIP).
During the workshop attendees will explore the elements required to successfully compile their portfolio. Information will be provided regarding the Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) and CILIP’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
The workshop will further provide candidates with opportunities to pose questions and network with others.
Tea, coffee and cold drinks will be provided.
The workshop will take place at the Hunslet Campus of the Leeds College of Building. The campus is situated within a fifteen minutes’ walk of bus and rail services. There are also nearby public car parking facilities. However, there is no parking available on site except for blue badge holders. The building is fully accessible.
Further details regarding transport and access, and a programme will be sent out to attendees prior to the event.
The event is free, but booking in advance is essential as places are limited. To reserve a place on the course please contact Mark Naylor.
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Stay ahead of the many changes introduced by social media platforms with a handy cheatsheet for 2017 by NewsWhip, including a guide to automatic captioning on Facebook videos to make your content more accessible.
The vast majority of video views on Facebook are with the sound switched off. Therefore captions should be added to any video with someone speaking.
The problem is captions can be time consuming to add in the video edit. Now, Facebook has an automatic captioning tool that makes it really quick and easy. The other advantage is these captions automatically switch off if someone turns the sound on. You can find the guide at the attachment below.
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You are warmly invited to our new year social on Wednesday 18th January from 6.00pm at The Brass Monkey, SW1V 1AU.
The event is open to anyone with an interest in library and information work. Drinks and light refreshments will be provided. This event is free but booking is essential for catering purposes. For further details and to book tickets please visit http://tinyurl.com/jjhpu2n
We look forward to seeing you there.
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The CILIP ILIG web pages are being checked and updated - particularly links given within them.
Some pages - particularly the publication pages - may be unavailable at times while these checks and updates are being carried out.
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CILIP's inaugural Careers Day is for all library and information professionals.
Hear from employers from the major sectors about the roles in their organisations
Work with experts in practical workshops to support you in your career planning and job searching
Talk to recruiters about the market and the jobs available
Network with other professionals
Price (non-refundable) includes refreshments and lunch. £20 CILIP Members/£35 Non-members
Book via the blue 'Book Now' button to the right and you will be taken to the booking form.
(NB CILIP Londom Member Network are holding an evening Networking Event in conjunction with this. Tickets will be available shortly)
Employers' Forum
Practitioners from the Health, Academic, Government, Public and Commercial sectors will talk about their individual sectors, the type of jobs within it and the key skills & competences required. Ask the employers what they are looking for.
Practical workshops
Has it been a while since you were in the job market? Do you know where to look, how to sell yourself and how to deal with difficult interview questions? Work with experts to improve your skills and boost your confidence.
Meet the recruiter
Talk to the professional agencies to get practical advice on your career path.
Networking opportunities
Make connections with other people.
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As researchers get deeper and deeper into the process of collaboration, storage and sharing, it soon becomes apparent that they will need to manage their data too. As a result, researchers continuously have to make decisions around preserving their data, the best way to describe it, and who will have the long-term oversight.
In this podcast we chat to Daniela Duca, our senior co-design manager, as she looks into ways we can create user-led solutions for better research. Read the original blog post.
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This free event considers the importance of continuous professional development throughout your career. You will be introduced to professional registration, reflective writing and developing a portfolio.
It is aimed at those thinking about embarking on the Certification or Chartership or at the start of the process.
Book via the blue 'Book Now' button to the right.
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This free event considers the importance of continuous professional development throughout your career. You will be introduced to professional registration, reflective writing and developing a portfolio.
It is aimed at those thinking about embarking on the Certification or Chartership or at the start of the process.
To book a place please email Andrew Eynon
Learning outcomes
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Tel: 01492 546666
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CILIPinKent are pleased to offer Information Professionals the opportunity to visit the UK's leading charity for autistic people and their families.
The National Autistic society provide information and advice to create 'a better world for autistic people'. The Librarians will talk to attendees about their roles and the collections.
More information about the charity can be found at www.autism.org.uk
Open to members and non-members.
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This event is aimed at those of you who are working towards CILIP professional registration and would like to find out more about Certification, Chartership or Fellowship.
This is an opportunity to learn about the Framework of Qualifications, portfolio building and reflective practice, and how to use the CILIP VLE to put together your portfolio.
This practical session will be led by the Candidate Support Officer for the South East, Nicola Beer, with expert advice from an assessor and guidance from current and past candidates.
There will be plenty of time to ask questions, network with other candidates and work on a piece of reflective writing for your portfolio.
We recommend that you bring your own laptop or tablet to the session, but this is not essential
Refreshments will be provided. Please contact us regarding dietary requirements and accessibility needs.
Directions (http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/tonbridge):
By car: For information about car parks, see https://www.tmbc.gov.uk/servic.... Staff at the Tonbridge Centre recommends to park at the nearby Sainsbury's (https://goo.gl/maps/49Mrxynk3xP2) which allows up to 4 hours.
By train (3 minute walk from the station): Once you leave the station from the main exit (top of the stairs) you need to turn left walking towards the town. You need to ignore the first turn on the left (which would mean going back on yourself) and take the next road left into Avebury avenue. Once on Avebury avenue the public library will be on your left and there is a Fitness Centre on the right side of the road. When you have walked passed the library there will be a big sign with University of Kent and you need to turn left in front of the sign than a few paces later the entrance is on your right. We are in the same building as the Adult Education Centre and are on the first floor.
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CILIP's International Library & Information Group (CILIP ILIG) extends an open invite to join us at our next informal!
Our speaker: Ashleigh Brown from Book Aid International (BAI) will talk about their flagship programme which started in 2016 working with public librarians to outreach their local primary schools and help them set up school libraries of their own. The programme will run within five countries in Africa
If you have problems with this link the full web address for BAI's Inspiring Readers programme is
http://www.bookaid.org/aboutus/our-work/programmes/inspiring-readers/
The event also relates to the following areas of CILIP's Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB):
2. Knowledge and information management;
3.2 Understanding information seeking behaviour;
7.5 Collection evaluation and information quality;
8.1 Information literacy;
8.2 Reading literacy and Reader Development;
8.4 Writing, numeracy and creativity;
8.5 Frameworks and curricula for education and training;
8.8 Virtual Learning Environments;
11.2 Communicating with stakeholders;
11.3 Community planning and engagement;
11.5 Customer service skills.
CILIP ILIG Informals are not lectures; they are informal, but informative, early evening meetings with a short talk on a theme of international interest plus plenty of time for questions and networking. They are open to all.
Light refreshments are served which is why we ask you to let CILIP ILIG know you are coming by booking online using the Book now button.
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Next year's conference is entitled Collections at Risk and will cover conservation, preservation, theft and vandalism as well as the contentious issues of the sale and disposal of library and other heritage collections. It won't all be doom and gloom as the talks will also deal with how to mitigate the risk to your collections as well as how various collections have been saved or recovered.
The conference will take place between the 6th and 8th of September 2017 in Brighton. More details will be issued in due course. Keep the dates free in your diaries!
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CILIP will be open till Friday but our services will be much reduced as staff head off on their Christmas holidays. We will look to address any questions or issues you have on 3rd of January.
If you are interested in what we have done this year, I would suggest you check out Nick's 2016 in review which provides a window into some of the work we have been doing supporting and advocating on behalf of our members. We look forward to building on this work in 2017.
We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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The December 2016 issue of Catalogue and Index is now available. This bumper issue features a selection of papers from this year’s conference held at Swansea University between the 31 August and 2 September 2016. There is also a report on the Equality and Diversity of the CIG member network which was initiated by the CILIP leadership project.
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The Information Literacy Group is pleased to announce that we will again be running a series of webinars to support our annual conference, LILAC.
These webinars are primarily aimed at LILAC conference speakers and delegates.
The first in this year’s series will be presented by Andrew Walsh (University of Huddersfield)
Andrew’s webinar will focus on some key tips for LILAC presenters to consider in the planning and delivery of their conference presentations. Attendees will reflect on what makes conference presentations engaging for the audience and be asked to reflect on how they might use this in their own conference preparation.
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CILIP Cymru Wales are excited to announce that the 2017 conference will be in Llandudno 11th-12th of May.
The call for speakers is open.
We would like to hear from individuals and organisations with an idea for either a presentation, workshop or poster on the following topics:
• Health: partnerships, information, opportunities for working cross sectors
• Privacy: responsibilities of the profession
• Copyright: sharing of information, images, music, research
• Advocacy beyond the library walls
• Workforce and self development
More details to follow
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CILIP Cymru Wales are excited to announce that the 2017 conference will be in Llandudno 11th-12th of May.
The call for speakers is open.
We would like to hear from individuals and organisations with an idea for either a presentation, workshop or poster on the following topics:
• Health: partnerships, information, opportunities for working cross sectors
• Privacy: responsibilities of the profession
• Copyright: sharing of information, images, music, research
• Advocacy beyond the library walls
• Workforce and self development
More details to follow
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Join CLSIG for a free tour of the Science Museum’s Dana Research Centre and Library - home to the Museum's Library and Archive services in London and to the Research and Public History department.
There will be a talk by the Head of Library and Archives on the history of the library and its collections, followed by a tour around the facilities.
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Please note that the library is not accessible from the main museum building.
The entrance is at 165 Queens Gate – go down the staircase facing the entrance and turn right through the Library entrance. Disabled access is by lift – please ask the main reception desk for directions and assistance if required.
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More information about the library is available here - www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/library
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You are warmly invited to the following free visit:
Collecting Troublemakers for 100 years: Special Collections and Archives at Bishopsgate Institute
Bishopsgate Institute has been offering free public access to its library since 1895 but don't let the fact that the Library is located in the midst of the City of London fool you. The library is home to the archives of numerous campaign and radical groups who fought for their values, demonstrating for a wide range of different causes from Parliamentary reform and LGBT rights through to vegan terrorism. Stretching back over two centuries the collections include the records of the two biggest demonstrations in British History – Reform League (1866) and protest against Iraq War (2003). Join this exploration of the activities and archives of organisations such as Freedom Press and Stop the War Coalition and find out why the Institute locked away one item in the 1920s as they feared it would cause world revolution.
Number of places: 20
Please contact Vicky Robertson v.robertson@ucl.ac.uk by Friday 10th February to book a place
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CILIP North West Member network will be holding a Professional Registration Workshop on Friday 17th February 2017 9.30am-1pm at Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Campus.
Professional Registration Workshop on Friday 17th February 2017 9.30am - 1pm
This free workshop is aimed at candidates who are working towards CILIP Certification, Chartership or Fellowship. It will help you to understand the professional registration process and what to include in your portfolio. It will also provide the opportunity to network and meet the local Candidate Support team.
There will also be the opportunity to hear from two speakers at the event. A current CILIP Chartered Member, mentor and FCLIP candidate and a representative from CILIP Member Services.
To book a place go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/portfolio-building-for-cilip-professional-registration-aclipmclipfclip-tickets-29272984284
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Legal resources for non-law information professionals and answering enquiries on prison law –
09.30 – 10.00
Refreshments and Registration
10.00 - 12.30
12.30 – 1.30
1.30 - 4.00
Legal resources for non-law information professionals – Alexandra Pooley, CILIP CLSIG
Lunch
Answering enquiries on prison law –
Jane Finnis, Prisoners’ Advice Service
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Issue 7 of GKIM Matters is now available to view here
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