The new governance system is still fledgling, and there are still lots of practical issues cropping up for the first time - particularly in the areas of 'who does what?' out of the three bodies that now exist. For example, the Policy Forum (PF) and the Office of the President (OoP) have clear roles under the structure to garner grass-roots ideas and needs, especially the PF, to feed ultimately into Council decision-making.
My own feeling is that as the structure is so new, there is a great deal of benefit on all sides if the individual Councillors/Trustees also 'put themselves about' a bit. Travelling 'en masse' anywhere is very expensive. We agreed though, to have at least one full Council meeting a year away from London. This year it was Cardiff (June).
There is probably more benefit to members if the individual Trustees spread out. I was invited to the CILIP in Surrey Exec Committee meeting recently, and found it very useful indeed to hear what their hot topics are. I personally would like to do more Branch & Group visiting - as a wanted visitor, rather than an imposed one though.
We Trustees are Branch and Special Interest Group members ourselves of course, so you can raise any issues with us when you see us then, too.
Best regards,
Caroline
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Leader - CILIP Council
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On 1 Jul 2008, at 08:46, Frances Hendrix wrote:
more on the lists
more participation by members and councilors, surely councilors can comment on anything and everything?
when are councilors going to move round the regions and have some focus groups or meetings in far off places?
thanks
f
Frances Hendrix
Martin House Farm, Hilltop Lane, Whittle le Woods, Chorley, Lancs PR6 7QR, UK
tel: 01257 274 833. fax: 01257 266 488
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Council Matters: the CILIP Council Blog
Dear All,
I agree, Bruce certainly is a 'tour de force', Frances, and the Council members appreciate his activity on the lists.
Three Councillors have responded here in the past few days regarding the Branch & Group summer consultation, so he's not alone on that one at least!
I anticipate that list members will get to know the rest of the Councillors better over the coming months too, depending on the issues raised and their own areas of expertise.
We want comments about CILIP and its direction & policies from as many members (and non-members) as possible, whether through the 'official' routes of the various blogs and community fora, or across open LIS-related lists such as this one.
Contact us direct too, especially if you're not comfortable posting to an open list or blog.
Best regards,
Caroline
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Caroline Moss-Gibbons
Deputy Leader - CILIP Council
Tel: +44 (0)7788 590913
Skype: mossgibbons
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On 30 Jun 2008, at 16:43, Frances Hendrix wrote:
well Bruce, you seem to be a one man tour de force in all this. Are all the other councilors on annual leave
thanks for the feedback
f
Frances Hendrix
Martin House Farm, Hilltop Lane, Whittle le Woods, Chorley, Lancs PR6 7QR, UK
tel: 01257 274 833. fax: 01257 266 488
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Zena said: "My petite bleatette is that I'd like them to be full page on the
web - not a narrow column, where I have to scroll down. And down... I
think this may be a 'feature' of the blog, though."
I've got the good guys at CILIP HQ to expand the width of the blog column,
so you don't have to scroll down so much. It can't be full page, or you'd
lose the search feature and the links (including the link to the full texts
of Council Agenda/Papers/minutes that others have asked for). If you get a
chance, have a look at the new format at:
http://tinyurl.com/55smyv
...and let us known what you think. Meanwhile, we're seeing if we can get it
down from 3 columns to two...
Bruce
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