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CILIPS Annual Conference – Last chance to book for ‘Home of Scotland’ Stories
CILIP Scotland welcome members from across the UK to join them for two days of inspiration and innovation as CILIPS President and National Librarian Amina Shah hosts the first in-person CILIP Scotland conference for three years with the theme tying in with the Year of Stories 2022.
THE largest conference in Scotland for library and information professionals, #CILIPS22 will bring together colleagues from across the country and beyond to share knowledge and engage in profes- sional development. Taking place on 6 and 7 June at the Dundee Apex Hotel, CILIPS22 will feature keynote speeches from, thought-provoking parallel sessions, networking opportunities and much more. CILIPS President Amina Shah said “Scotland’s libraries of all kinds are truly the home of Scotland’s stories, and we can’t wait to share that with people in June. We’ll be celebrating libraries and their workers, sharing innovation, discussing the role of the profession in 2022, welcoming some fantastic speakers and much more.” The keynotes this year include award-winning author and broadcaster Damian Barr. His memoir, Maggie & Me, won Stonewall Writer of the Year and was named Sunday Times Memoir of the Year and he has written columns for The Times, Sunday Times and Big Issue and hosted Front Row on BBC Radio 4. Also featured will be Scotland on Sunday Editor Catherine Salmond, who is a passionate supporter of libraries, having launched a campaign last August to champion their work and fight to secure their futures. Catherine will also be looking at the role of the press in telling Scotland’s stories. Also on the line-up is Zandra Yeaman, Curator of Discom- fort based at the Hunterian Museum. Curating Discomfort is looking at ways outside of traditional museum authority to explore the interpretation of contested collections and to design and deliver a series of museum interventions that takes the museum out of the institutional comfort zone. As an anti-racist activist, Zandra works with institutions to gain an understanding of current social systems and how they are influenced by the legacy of slavery and colonialism and will provide a fascinating perspective to learn from. Completing the keynote line up is CILIP President Kate Robinson, who will be outlining some of the plans for the professional body and how members in Scotland can be part of the journey. And finally, we are delighted to
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be joined by special guest Gemma Cairney. Gemma is a multi-award-winning broadcaster, author, activist, and life enthusiast who recently moved to Scotland and will be sitting down for a chat with Amina to discuss stories, books, libraries, culture and more.
The conference programme on day one also features Building Up the School Library post-pandemic, innovation in Further Education libraries, collecting and understanding misinformation about the pandemic, library stories with Erin Farley – local historian, storyteller and library worker, Read Woke South Ayrshire, a library sustainability panel discus- sion, Virtual Study Sessions in Strathclyde University and Dr Diane Pennington on the iSchools Women’s Coalition. Book your place now at
www.cilips.org.uk/cilips-22. IP
April-May 2022
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