CILIP Branch and Group Funding review

CILIP has published a consultation paper on the funding of its Special Interest Groups (of which CIG is one) and Branches. You can find it at http://www.cilip.org.uk/aboutcilip/howcilipworks/council/boards/workinggroups/fundingworkinggroup/discussionpaper.htm The closing date for responses is 18 September and the CIG committee would welcome contributions to the discussion. Generally there has been very little public debate that we have seen so I published the following to the CILIP Communities forum for Branch and Group officers this morning:

I am surprised that I have seen no public discussion of the task and finish group report either here or on (say) lis-profession. So I thought I would fly a kite.

I wonder if the reason for the silence is that people are pleasantly surprised by the recommendations. Keeping the current arrangements for membership of Branches and Groups and increasing the capitation (albeit marginally) seems a welcome suggestion for those of us who had heard the merchants of gloom predicting something draconian and life (or at least budget) threatening.

I am slightly doubtful about the recruitment fee - how it will be administered or more precisely how one will attribute a new member to a specific group/ branch. But I am prepared to wait for the detail. That goes for the other incentive schemes too.

These are not the views of the Cataloguing & Indexing Group which will be collated and submitted in due course.

Andrew Coburn

Chair CIG

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