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News from CILIP
19 September 2006
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Help us celebrate diversity in libraries and information
Don't miss out on entering the Diversity Awards 2007
Library and information professionals have until 25 February 2007 to enter the Diversity Awards, and give themselves the chance to gain national recognition for their work on diversity.
"Our profession has a crucial role to play in breaking down the barriers that prevent all citizens from accessing the information and the resources that they need," says Kal Dale, Chair of CILIP's Diversity Group."Library and information services also have a responsibility to provide and promote career opportunities and development for all their staff. But while a great deal of important work is done in the promotion of diversity through library services up and down the country much of it is unseen and therefore unacknowledged."
The Diversity Awards aim to change this fact by recognising outstanding achievement in the promotion of diversity through library and information services and to highlight examples of good practice in this area to the rest of the profession.
Gulshan Iqbal, Chair of the Diversity Awards Judges said, " I hope the entries for the 2007 Diversity Awards will reflect the good practice which we all know takes place within the profession. The group would like to recognise outstanding achievement by both individuals and by organisations."
Awards are made in two categories: Organisational Change and Personal Achievement.
The Organisational Change Award is given to a library and information service that has promoted diversity within its organisation, either through changes in institutional practice, the development of organisation-wide structures to overcome exclusion and discrimination, or the combating of institutional barriers to career progression and development for staff.
The Personal Achievement Award is given to an individual for outstanding achievement in the promotion of the principles of diversity, equal opportunities and social inclusion through the provision and promotion of library and information services.
The winners will be announced at a special Awards dinner taking place at CILIP's Umbrella Conference at the de Havilland campus of the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield from 28 - 30 June 2007.
To enter the awards simply visit the Diversity Group website www.cilip.org.uk/dg, where further details and an entry form are available, or contact Karen Berry for further information and an application form. Email: Mailto:[log in to unmask] Telephone 024 7667 9458. The deadline for entries is Friday 25 February 2007.
Notes for Editors
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. It forms a community of around 35,000 people engaged in library and information work, of whom around 22,000 are CILIP Members and around 13,000 are regular customers of CILIP Enterprises. CILIP members work in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries. For more information about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk.
The Diversity Group is a Special Interest Group of CILIP. The aims of the Diversity Group are to unite those members of CILIP engaged in or interested in issues of diversity as they affect the library and information community, to foster communication between such members, to facilitate exchange of experience and the promotion of work relevant to those interests in order to promote and support library and information services to diversity and excluded communities. For more information about CILIP's Diversity Group, please go to www.cilip.org.uk/dg.
The biennial Diversity Awards were first awarded in 2002. In 2005 Jagjit Kohli won the Personal Achievement Award. The award for the former Multicultural Librarian for Warwickshire County Council recognised her enthusiasm and professionalism. The Black County Libraries in Partnership (BCLiP) were the winners of the Organisational Change Award. For their Basic ICT Skills, (BITS) For All project. The project created basic ICT packages, in community languages, for use in Learning Centres across the four public library authorities within the Black Country.
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