Both the summary and the full report are a step forward in reporting Council
to members and go someway to replace the reports to their Committees of
Branch and Group CILIP Councillors. I suggest the next step is to determine
how effective it is, that is how many members read the reports. I believe
somewhat less than 2000 people subscribe to LIS-PROFESSION (ie, fewer than
10% of CILIP membership) and not all will open and read the reports. It is
still an unknown proportion of a handful of members and fewer than the more
numerous scatter-gun targets of print reporting which till now have seldom
been as informative as what we are now offered.
A survey, then, of a sample of CILIP members to discover the nature and
extent of the readership of the reports, say a 10% representative sample of
all members. By definition it could not be conducted through LIS-PROFESSION,
but only directly to the named members emerging from the sample.
In the meantime, as a Retired Layabout without many opportunities for face
to face gossip, hob-nobbing/networking to discover what's going on in
LibraryInfoland, Two and a Half Cheers for a step forward.
Edward Dudley
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Subject: CILIP Council Briefing for July
Following the discussion on one list about the length of these briefings,
we have taken the decision to post a full Briefing on 'Council Matters' -
the CILIP Council Blog at
http://communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/council/default.aspx, and to provide a
brief summary to the lists.
What follows is a summary of our July meeting:
Council discussed:
a.. a report on the provision of e-mail addresses to CILIP Groups and
Branches and asked for more work to be done to identify alternative
approaches.
b.. and approved recommendations assuring the future of the
Accreditation and Chartership Boards and the CILIP Assessment Panel (CAP),
as well as agreeing a revised CPD scheme
c.. a draft International Policy Statement to be taken forward to the
Policy Forum
d.. and agreed the consultation exercise on Branch and Group funding
e.. Patrick Conway's Professional Standards of Service in public
libraries report, and agreed a number of ways to take this work forward
f.. received a report on the CILIP survey on Police, Surveillance and
Libraries conducted during June
g.. membership renewals and the 2007 accounts
h.. and adopted a revised Reserves Policy - The revised Policy does NOT
affect English Branches, Groups and Celtic Nations as it retains the
principle of allowing them to retain and manage their reserves in order to
'give flexibility and encourage initiative'.
and finally
a.. risk management at CILIP - a discussion which leads to a CILIP
Council workshop on the subject later in the year.
I hope you find this approach and format useful. Please let me know via
the list (I'm sure you will!) of any improvements which might prove useful.
Chris
Chris Armstrong
National Councillor (CILIP)
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