“Library systems consortia - a strategy for development and survival?

Speaker: Will Blackburn, Business Development Manager, Civica UK Limited

Date: Monday 10 October 2011
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: The Sekforde Arms, Sekforde Street London EC1
Map: http://digbig.com/3pmf

Libraries of all types are under pressure to adapt in the current economic climate. Increasingly they are joining consortia to cut costs, streamline operations and have stronger voices when dealing with systems suppliers, publishers and database aggregators. But do consortia provide an effective alternative to outsourcing? And to what extent do they benefit users?

Will’s presentation will look at issues, such as governance and integration, that affect libraries of all types and encourage further debate.

Will Blackburn has worked in library supply since graduating in 1998, having read Publishing at university. Since joining Civica six years ago, he has worked on a range of Library transformation and system integration projects.

This talk will be of particular value to anyone registered for CILIP Chartership and can contribute towards CPD requirements.

We encourage you to blog or tweet about this event - but please be sure to include the contact information.

CILIP in London evening meetings are open to all with a professional interest in the topic. Refreshments will be available afterwards. As space is limited, please let us know if you are coming: cilipinlondon@gmail.com It would be helpful to us if you could tell us how you found out about this event. There will be a small charge (£5) for anyone who is not a Cilip member.



This event has kindly been sponsored by Credo Reference.

CPD23 Thing 7: regional and national groups, special interest groups – in real life

Please note: Please arrive at 5:30 for a 6pm start

Speakers: From CILIP HQ, CDG, HLG and BIALL
Date: Thursday 21 July 2011
Time: 6.00pm – 7:45pm
Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Map: http://www.cilip.org.uk/contact-us/pages/map.aspx

Over 600 people are now registered on CPD23 - a self directed course aimed at helping people develop their “personal and professional development as a librarian, information professional or something else”.

CILIP in London are pleased to be able to offer a chance for participants to meet up, network and consider Thing 7 (Offline networks, regional and national groups, special interest groups) during the appropriate week.

The evening will feature brief informal talks looking at the CPD impact of various
bodies and networks as a stimulus to discussion and we hope that it will make for
some good blog posts!

Drinks and nibbles will be available and there will be the opportunity to relocate to a pub afterwards.

We encourage you to blog or tweet about this event - #CILIPLNDN
#CPD23.

This CILIP in London event is free and open to all with a professional interest in the topic; you do not need to be a CILIP member.

Priority will be given to CPD23 participants so please include your blog address when
reserving a spot.

As space is limited, please let us know if you are coming to:
cilipinlondon@gmail.com

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CILIP in London update (March 2010)

A version of the below will be getting sent to members by email shortly:

In view of the continuing reduced level of capitation from CILIP, the Branch Committee has reluctantly agreed further reductions in activities. These mean that we shall:

• Not arrange a spring evening general meeting in March or April. The AGM, however, will go ahead on Wednesday 12 May and feature Professor Dave Nicholas as our guest speaker.
• Reduce the Sekforde Arms meetings to 5 per year and make a charge of £5 per meeting for non-CILIP members. The remaining three meetings for 2010 are likely to be in June, September and October or November. Please see the Gazette for details in due course.
• Reduce CLIP to two hard copies per year and make full use of the CILIP HQ email service to fill in the gaps
• Suspend the international programme; this means that no bursaries will be offered in 2010.

There will be a general evening meeting at the end of the year, on Wednesday 8 December at which Biddy Fisher, the President of CILIP, will be our speaker.

From the President of CILIP in London – Peter Beauchamp (Feb 2010)

Hello London colleagues

I am emailing you in my capacity as President of CILIP in London to introduce you to the new Branch and Group email service that CILIP HQ is providing – this allows the Branch Committee to send regular (or, indeed, irregular) emails to Branch members.

We should welcome your comments on the value of this service, and whether you are content to receive information and news in this way.

The service is limited, of course, to those who have registered their email address with CILIP; so, it would be helpful if you could encourage colleagues, who have not, now to register. Given the continuing restrictions on Branch and Group capitation funding, however, it is likely that we will have to rely more on electronic communication in the future, although we are worried that there are still Members who may not have access to the Internet. In addition, we would not expect these emails to replace our efforts to maintain a relevant and up-to-date website within the main CILIP web site.

The financial position of the Branch is a major concern at the moment. Capitation funding has been halved and this is causing difficulties in maintaining our present level of activities. The two most significant areas of expenditure are meetings and London CLIP, and we are making reductions on each front, as well as in our international activities.

The Committee is not in favour of charging for meetings, but we cannot support as many as before. At present, in 2010, there will be 7 Sekforde Arms meetings and 3 general evening meetings (including the AGM). Sekforde Arms meetings will not be held in the month when there is a general evening meeting, thus maintaining the existence of a Branch meeting in every month except August and December.

In future, CLIP will be issued twice a year in hard copy and will be printed only in one colour. Two electronic issues will supplement hard copy.

In previous years, the Branch has provided a bursary for a London librarian to visit one of the new EU countries, and a bursary for one of their librarians to visit London. Neither of these bursaries will be offered in 2010.

By these measures, we hope to be able to continue providing a broad range of services and support for Branch members, but further reductions cannot be ruled out, and are likely if not in 2010 in 2011.

We should welcome your comments on any of this, or on Branch matters generally. Please send them to our Secretary, Steve Cook, and copy them to me.

Kind regards

Peter

Welcome

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This replication being to allow for members to receive these messages via RSS and for an archive of the messages to be stores.

http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/regional-branches/london/ for more information