An e-mail which went around the staff at CILIP’s Ridgmount Street hq highlighted the new ‘Librarians against Palin’ blog  and the scary list of books Sarah Palin supposedly tried to ban from her local library when she was a Mayor in Alaska. Everything from Catch-22 and Brave New World to the The Merchant of Venice. One version of the ...

The people page in the latest Gazette features an article by Josie Crimp on her work in Mexico for children’s charity NPH (Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos) . Formerly a children’s librarian in Croydon, she has been volunteering as Librarian at NPHfor the last three months and is recording her experience in a livejournal blog [**]. Her ...

This time last week I was speaking at the CIG Conference on how we indexed resources for the Falls Community of Practice. I was only able to attend the final day because of other work commitments, but the conference programme was varied and interesting. Now you can see the slides, in PowerPoint or HTML format [...]

Lyndsay Ress-Jones will be one of the speakers at the BCS KIDMM / ISKO UK event on 9 October. From the publicity: Lyndsay is a senior adviser to the Membership Support Unit at CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. She oversaw the introduction of CILIP Communities, the online system which provides discussion ...

The CILIP Task and Finish Group on Funding for Branches, Groups and Celtic Nations have been reviewing the current funding system, as well as looking at the model proposed by the New Business Model Working Group (NBMWG) in 2007. They have, in addition, devised an alternative model. At present, CILIP members are automatically enrolled in [...]

I’ve been a little out of touch recently, getting up to speed in my new role and delivering on some outstanding commitments, so I only noticed today that London Clip 15 is online, including reports of Helen Nicol’s talk on ‘The business of knowing’ and Caroline De Brun’s talk ‘Why Charter?‘ Stephen Cook. ...

Olivia Laing writes about past winners,

From August 2006 to July 2007 I worked with CILIP’s Department of Knowledge and Information to help them prepare for, establish and nurture their online membership communities. It was a wonderful experience; we all worked hard breaking new boundaries, and we all learnt a huge amount about all sorts of things one encounters while getting ...

Last year CILIP Council commissioned a review of its Framework of Qualifications and Accreditation (FoQA). This was to look at procedures and processes, with particular focus put on administration of the FoQA. This review resulted in a report containing 19 recommendations. A steering Group was created in December 2007 to oversee the consideration ...

The new-style Council met this week for the 4th time, and now a blog and forum have been set up – as promised – so that short briefing reports on the Council's current work can be posted. The Blog - Council Matters - can be found at: http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/council/default.aspx The Forum (CILIP members only) can be found ...