A few additional photo’s on this post.
First one is of the President (Biddy) with the 2010 Honorary Officers (Nigel Macartney serving as Leader of Council, and Judy Broady-Preston as Treasurer).
Nigel briefly welcomed the new Trustees and returnees and noted it constituted new blood on a large scale and his intention to share out the work and participation.
We then went into the main business of the Agenda.
Enclose a couple of ‘in session’ photo’s from the January Council meeting (same table / meeting but taken from opposite ends and angles of the room so you don't get Back Of Head Only shot's of half the participants!).
Basically table composition is the Councillors (the Trustees) intermingled with the Office of the President team, the senior CILIP staff members and secretarial support. You can also see bits of Edward’s Row behind the table in the second of them (as I always think of the Observer’s row).
If you’re looking for rather closer shots of the front of people’s head’s for identification purposes (seems a reasonable possibility!) then go to the biographies section of the Council pages and the main Office of the President page and that’ll help you put names to bodies.
We didn’t take the traditional front-facing shot of the grouped Trustees together as we were missing one of our number due to illness, seemed a shame to leave him out.
Isabel
I said on my previous post that I’d post a few photo’s from January Council (which took place in the Charter Suite in CILIP in Ridgmount Street) - going to try and give slight context to them in addition.
So, first off, on the ceremonial front we have photo of the investiture of the President for 2010 Biddy Fisher by Peter Griffiths, Past President.
Both of them said a few words in traditional fashion as part of proceedings. I emphasise that the below is from my scribbled notes so it conveys the general tenor, not word-for-word pinpoint accuracy!
Biddy expressed her thanks and noted that she had never expected to become CILIP President and that a lot of people had supported her with considerable warmth. She said that Big Conversation (which she’s leading on) was a big job which would involve conversations both big and small in order to seek to harmonise everyone together re the future of CILIP. She said it had been a great pleasure working with Peter who had led the Office of the President well and given a very astute AGM speech bringing the views of the members to the AGM.
Veronica Fraser (Councillor) gave the Vote of Thanks to Peter in which she touched upon Peter’s great AGM speech, his leadership of the Policy Forum in 2008, his on-going work relating to the governance review, and all his work in forwarding the Information Matters agenda, and that it was great to hang onto him for another year while he pursued his new Past President role.
Peter, in response, said he hadn’t initially realised just how much was involved in the roles, but it had brought him back in touch with grassroots members and issues. He discussed the value of the profession and the need to find a way forward for CILIP that suits all main interests. He expressed his thanks and anticipation of further moving forward in the future.
Brian Hall (Vice President for 2009) was also welcomed.
Isabel
Right, a quick gab through what happened at January 2010 CILIP Council with apolgato’s for delay as my natives have been somewhat all-consuming since Council
Anything with (P) against it, in traditional mode, there’s a Paper for it if you log into the CILIP website (go to sitemap – Council – Council meetings is simplest way in or click here and then sign in).
So….
Changes to the Runners and Riders in the 2010 Council Stakes -
January being the start of the governance year there was a lot of changes in personnel re CILIP Council, and a few changes re jobs. Our new Councillors (John Crawford, Emma McDonald, Nick Poole, Edwina Smart) joined the fray. Nigel Macartney was elected Leader of Council, Isabel Hood continues as Deputy Leader, Judy Broady-Preston takes over as Treasurer from Nigel, and a new post for 2010 is Deputy Treasurer which is Jill Lambert. So basically Nigel is now in charge of the gavel and passes over the calculator after many years formidable service with. Up-dated biographies, area’s of expertise and Register of Interests are available on the website under Council heading for all the Councillors.
Ceremonials / the passing on of the gong -
In terms of the Office of the President team for 2010 there was the investiture of Biddy Fisher as CILIP President for 2010 by Peter Griffiths who now becomes Past President. Brian Hall attended his first Council meeting as Vice President. There was speechifying and thanking in the traditional manner as people tried not to stick pins into each other too painfully or get ribbons snagged on ears.
For those of you who missed it all I am in possession of photographic evidence of Council in session and handing over of gongs etc. So shall put a couple on the Council Matters blog to give a flavour of the new Council and aid identification slightly (and yes, I’ve found ones in which we all look like we’re just about attached to our own heads, so that’s a good start).
Main Business…
CILIP Budget – The budget for 2010 was debated and confirmed. This includes
An additional pot of money dedicated to advocacy for library and information services in the recession.
Update to go monthly with six issues in print thudding through letterboxes in normal manner, and six issues online only. This will mean more content, more timely content, and a balanced approach between media, as well as saving some costs involved in the hardcopy. See the news release for more detail.
The funding for further roll-out for England (the pilot had been London) of the Encompass positive action traineeship scheme.
Bequest funding was ear-marked for consultation and testing work on the mechanism for the compulsory CPD scheme and on feasibility study for joint accreditation with other bodies re the Information Matters agenda.
The Big Conversation - Biddy reported on the positive outcome of the selection process re the Project Board with a diverse range of individuals being selected from a strong field. Nigel Macartney as Leader of Council was further co-opted onto the Board’s membership. Biddy recorded a podcast on the Big Conversation after Council in which she discusses the need for the conversation and goal of, role and composition of Project Board, timescale, opportunities for involvement. There’s also various pages relating to in the Office of the President section of the CILIP website.
Interim Policy Forum (P) – the Regulations for the Interim Policy Forum for 2010 (as recommended by the existing Policy Forum last year) were confirmed. The Policy Forum (the focal point for professional policy generation) will be a smaller more focused body, but with an obligation to engage with other parts of CILIP in policy development, including Branches and Groups. Three members will be appointed through an open selection process and it’s hoped the first meeting will be in the Spring. Two Councillors (Trustees) will also serve on it. Due to a polite fight of eagerness three Trustees with particular policy background and interests – Ayub, Nick and John - will eye each other up before each meeting, the one who blinks first gets not to attend! Though, more prosaically, I suspect diary conflicts might also come into it!
Advocacy – CILIP consolidated response to the DCMS Consultation Paper on (English) Public Libraries – This was composed by a Task + Finish Group over the Christmas period (with representation from the various points of sectoral interest within CILIP) aided and abetted by a website survey through which individual members could also feed in to the response. The final version of the response was circulated in Draft at January Council and final version went in to DCMS a few days later and is very much a position paper re public libraries in England including overview of issues and recommendations for the future rather than a list of disparate answers to questions, which should make it more coherent and robust and re-useable.
Other matters….
Branch and Group Forum Meeting (P) – If anyone missed this and wants a run-down on what happened, then see this. In particular it discusses the structure of the new Branch and Group Forum, gave discussion on the impact of the recession on sectors and geographic parts, up-dates on various issues of branch & group business and work of relevant TFGs including Membership.
Proxy voter feedback from AGM (P) – Proxy voters (whether for or against the subscription motion regardless) were asked if they would be prepared to give feedback on their reasons, and the results of this were disseminated to Council and discussed. The discussion was lively and far-ranging, as reflecting the range of subjects raised in the feedback, but common area’s related to the subscriptions model and package, communication and services issues, and the need for more enabling ICT for member participation. The Paper was discussed by Council and also sent to the Membership TFG. Many of the area’s raised will be fundamental to the Big Conversation which is starting to evolve.
CILIP Libraries Manifesto for the Westminster elections – The text has been finalised and design work is now underway.
Chartership Board report included work to be undertaken on reviewing copyright and data protection matters and discussion of potential use of video-conferencing or making available on dvd re Chartership workshops.
Review of Governance – the Audit Panel is putting together a Project Plan re this.
Composition of various on-going bodies - Composition of Disciplinary Panel (P), Qualifications Appeal Panel (P) and Boards (P) and subordinate bodies (P) of Council (e.g. current Task + Finish Groups) reporting to Council were confirmed after miscellaneous up-dating amendments.
UNISON is conducting a People’s Inquiry into the UK Public Library Service (taking place at the British Library in February) – CILIP will be represented at the meeting.
Honours (P) – The LIS-related recipients of New Year Honours were noted with congratulations
Communication of Council Business – It was agreed Isabel and Emma (who will attempt to keep me on the straight and narrow) would jointly do Council Briefing for 2010 and that key decisions of Council meetings should be added onto the home page of the CILIP website as an announcement after each meeting
February CILIP Council – Will take place on 25 February commencing at 9.30am in the Charter Suite in CILIP, any members welcome to observe (we had a merry band for January, sure they could cope with a few additions though!). For those of you rather further up the country, July Council is in Leeds on the 15th, but more of that a bit nearer to the time….
Isabel
Yes, I know, there’s a lot of surveys and consultations about, but bear with me, I’m about to give up for 2009 on assuaging my seasonal flurry guilt on all the things I’ve been meaning to post about as I've guests and New Year descending so Must Leave Work (hint to self)…
Anyway, as this says December on it and it’s still live for now, for anyone yet to see this through other mechanisms…
A very quick mention of The National Surveys of UK School Libraries - this is being funded from a CILIP bequest, was instigated by the School Libraries Group, and is being supported by various interested parties, including CILIP.
There’s two different surveys
One covering for primary school libraries or classroom collections
One covering secondary, special, middle, independent schools
Re both surveys folk are also being asked, if they do not have one of the above in school, to email whether that is from choice or necessity (email address on introductory page of the surveys).
The information that could be gained from participation in this would be really useful to have to build up a proper current picture of library provision in secondary and primary schools and would be a really good basis for future advocacy work in the sector (as well as really interesting to know), so if it’s relevant to you or to someone you know please participate.
Anyway, Happy New Year all!
Isabel
Now that you’re on a roll (otherwise known as Survey Frenzy)…
The next topic is the CILIP CPD Scheme survey.
The concept of gradually introducing a light-touch mandatory CPD Scheme to some categories of CILIP membership has not been without it’s controversies as a topic, that’s understood.
The intention of the questionnaire is to elicit as much feed-in on the detailed design and content work on the scheme as possible from everyone and to ask what their current practice is and what they would consider to be ‘light touch’ CPD so that the Scheme can best meet everyone’s requirements and needs.
The survey is fairly short (17 questions) so won’t take long to complete, and the deadline for responses is 8 January.
Question 17 in particular is an ‘open’ question on any comments on the Scheme not covered in the more targeted questions before it. Thus it’s a good opportunity for those in favour, against, or with any type of questions or issues that need resolved in the development of the Scheme to comment so that the TFG get an accurate overall understanding of opinion from which to feed in to their thinking. And you don’t need to be a member to fill it in, so if there’s folk are e.g. lapsed or potential, that’s fine.
I also enclose below comment from the Chair of Task + Finish Group currently taking this forward and from the 2010 CILIP President, both of whom would much encourage people to fill in the questionnaire.
And yes, I've just done mine...!
cheers muchos - Isabel
Message from Keith Wilson. Chair, CPD Scheme Task and Finish Group.
As CILIP members, we are setting the standard both in our sector and also nationally and demonstrating our commitment to professionalism and the communities and markets we serve, through the CILIP CPD scheme. It’s a scheme that is evolving by a combination of leadership from CILIP Council and shaping by all of us as members. We are now moving into the detailed design stage of the scheme’s development. I welcome your views and guidance on what difference the scheme’s changes will make to you. This will help all of us involved make sure that it is valuable for members. Please help us by filling in our questionnaire.
Message from CILIP President 2010, Biddy Fisher.
Knowing how to meet the challenges of the next decade will be a combination of skill and judgement. I believe that those qualities are to be found in the CILIP Membership and I endorse the views of the Chair and Members of the CPD Scheme Task and Finish Group. The public and communities we serve need to have trust in our ability to make the best judgements about information and library services. We must continue to earn that trust by meeting the requirements of our professional standards and continuing with our own growth and professional development, ensuring we are able to face the future with confidence.
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