IN DEPTH
CILIP Conference 2022 – New voices, big ideas
Hundreds of Information Professionals came to Liverpool as CILIP held its first in-person conference since the start of the pandemic.
BILLED as an opportunity to recon- nect and renew, CILIP Conference and Expo 2022 brought delegates from all strands of the profession together – highlighting the variety and unity within the library, information and knowledge management sectors. The event took place at the Liverpool Exhi- bition Centre, and provided a much-needed opportunity to re-connect with colleagues, through powerful keynotes, empowering workshops, inspirational presentations and open discussions.
The conference opened with a celebratory poem by Vanessa Kisuule, which was fol- lowed by the conference’s keynote speaker, Sayf Al Ashqar.
Sayf is Library Director at the University of Mosul in Iraq, and he spoke about his own very personal experience of when ISIS troops invaded Mosul and secured control of the city, as well as the cynical destruction of the library. Sayf’s father – an academic at the univer- sity – was killed by ISIS, as part of a wider campaign to attack intellectual freedom and learning in the city. Hundreds of thousands of books were lost and the library was burnt down under the occupation. As Sayf said in his presentation: “If you want to control the people, you destroy their knowledge.” Suffolk Libraries’ Deputy CEO Krystal
Vittles delivered her keynote address at the end of day one, giving an inspiring account of her own professional journey through public libraries. Through her own story, she remind- ed delegates that there is a place and space for everyone in the profession. UCL Professor of Natural Prosperity, Sustainable Development and Knowledge System, Professor Jacqueline McGlade used her keynote speech on Day Two to call for better use of evidence and data to help tackle
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climate change, highlighting the important role played by those who work across knowl- edge and information management. Throughout the two-day conference there were a series of talks, workshops and net- working opportunities. Among the speakers were a group of ‘New Voices’ librarians who had never presented at a conference before, and you can read their impressions of con- ference on the following pages of this issue of Information Professional.
There were also several Facet Publishing authors speaking throughout CILIP confer- ence. Ayub Khan (Better by Design, Second Edition, co-authored with Stella Thebri- idge) discussed the importance of design for libraries and how the advice for modern libraries have changed, while Amy Stubbing (Data-Driven Decisions) talked about the process of collecting, understanding and using data for decision making and the com- mon pitfalls for librarians. You can find both of their new books on the Facet Publishing website:
www.facetpublishing.co.uk.
June-July 2022
Rob Mackinlay (@cilip_reporter2,
rob.mackinlay@
cilip.org.uk) is Senior Reporter, Information Professional.
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