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CILIPS Autumn Gathering takes place on November 19th at the Beardmore Hotel and Conference Centre in Glasgow. The Conference themes are community wellbeing and professional engagement and the day will feature A keynote address by CILIP CEO Nick Poole on future vision; An update on the implementation of the National Strategy for Public Libraries; A school library strand featuring children’s author Lari Don; A session on health information and the Knowledge Network; Ian Anstice, founder of the Public Libraries News website; Our History, an online resource that tells the story of Edinburgh University using Wikipedia - Dr. Paul Barnaby (session presented by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group - Scotland); Louise Macdonald, Chief Executive of Young Scot, discussing the iRights Framework; Tommy Whitelaw, dementia awareness campaigner and Tanya Duthie from Dundee Libraries talking about their highly acclaimed dementia information services; SCRAN: Sharing digital heritage to enhance community engagement; Scottish Parliament Elections - a discussion session on political advocacy in the lead up to May 2016. Delegate Rates Earlybird rate for members (until September 30th): £60 plus VAT Organisational members (until September 30th): £70 plus VAT (one earlybird rate per organisation) Member rate (after September 30th): £70 plus VAT Organisational rate (after September 30th): £80 plus VAT Non- member rate: £95 To book a place click here: https://cilips.formstack.com/forms/autumngathering2015 Further Information: http://www.cilips.org.uk/autumn-gathering-2015/