In case of interest

Following more chuntering from me (I wont bore you with the details), I've
had a more detailed reply about what is happening re CILIP planning and
remote LISA access.

Fiona

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Subject: RE: Remote access to LISA


Thanks again Fiona.

Let's start at the beginning: CILIP didn't exist until April so
consideration (by CILIP not by predecessor bodies) couldn't start until then
with the establishment of CILIP Council and its Executive Board. What has
happened since then is the development - through CILIP's Executive Board
which met in May and again in June - of an initial draft Corporate Plan for
CILIP to cover the period to March 2005. This Corporate Plan includes all
aspects of CILIP's work as a "high-level" document expressing CILIP's
intentions in terms of broad aims and objectives rather than specific tasks.
The draft is currently being reworked following the June Executive Board
meeting and will be ready to go out to the CILIP membership for consultation
later this month. The results of the consultation will be taken to the next
Executive Board meeting in September and a final draft Corporate Plan will
then go to the next meeting of CILIP Council in October for ratification.
That will create, through due democratic process, the strategic framework
for CILIP's work between now and 2005.

In the meantime, in the office, we'll be working on business plans for the
various parts of the CILIP organisation - the agenda of more concrete tasks
and objectives which will have the effect of putting the Corporate Plan
(once finalised) into operation. It's at this level that remote access to
LISA is being considered as part of our business planning of the Information
Services to be offered for CILIP Members, linked to the business planning of
our work on a new 3rd generation CILIP website within our overall ICT
strategy for CILIP.

All these strands of high-level corporate planning and detailed business
planning will come together following the CILIP Council meeting in October
in a detailed consideration of the financial implications of CILIP's forward
plans. This will be taken through the Executive Board meetings in November
and early December so that the CILIP Council meeting on 9 December will be
able to consider a detailed budget for 2003 which will be structured to meet
the priorities and tasks identified through the corporate planning and
business planning processes. This will create, through due democratic
process, the financial framework for CILIP's work next year.

At which point we'll be able to move to implementation of CILIP's agreed
plans for development; and these may well (see above) include giving Members
e-access to LISA.

That probably sounds very long-winded and bureaucratic. But democracy takes
time; and what we have is a clear timetable for the necessary decisions to
be made. I hope this helps.

Cheers. Bob.



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