Autumn Gathering 2014: Sharing our Skills
Booking is now open for this year's CILIPS Autumn Gathering. The event once again returns to the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh on October 30th, the event sold out in record time last year so please book early.
The full programme will include a great range of talks for all sectors and will be announced in the coming weeks. Highlights include:
-Jan Parry, CILIP Vice President, discussing her work with the Hillsborough Independent Panel;
-The return of a full strand for school librarians looking at advocacy, best practice and more;
-Alan Bissett, author and playwright, providing the final keynote talk;
-A spotlight on various excellent services including JISC RSC Scotland, the Scottish Poetry Library and Share the Vision;
-A talk looking at all the recent changes to Copyright Law;
-10 things, a great new initiative to encourage use of social media;
-Wikipedia expert Brian Kelly showing how easy it is to become involved in Wikipedia editing;
-Neil MacInnes, head of Manchester Libraries, talking about libraries and partnership working;
-Carnegie UK Trust talking about their new Library Lab.
To book a place go to: https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1774628-rdaczhVOcG
Further Information: http://www.cilips.org.uk/autumn-gathering-2014/
The prices are as follows:
CILIP Member earlybird rate (until Sep 12) £60 + VAT
CILIP Member rate (after Sep 12) £70 + VAT
Non member rate £95 + VAT
Bursary rate (student, unwaged) limited availability £45 + VAT
Many thanks
Sean McNamara
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