IN DEPTH
Looking back at 2022 – challenge, opportunity and potential
With the year-end approaching, Rob Green looks back at some of the highlights from 2022. From the launch of We Are CILIP and the Green Libraries Partnership, to the latest workforce mapping review and a new digital skills tool-kit, it has been a year of activity that sets CILIP’s course for the future – putting member’s needs at the heart of a sustainable organisation to support your career, wherever it takes you in the library, information and knowledge professions.
WE ARE CILIP is a five-year strategy and action plan that will guide and shape CILIP and the profession as it moves into a new era. It was launched at the start of the year and will enable CILIP to support a changing profession, by leading on new skills, leadership and workforce development underpinned by CILIP’s ethical frame- work.
We are CILIP ensures that Environmental sustainability and social equity will be built into CILIP’s activities as it moves forward – read more about the strategy and action plan on pp 14-16.
Future workforce, future skills This year has seen a huge amount of work to ensure the profession has a pipeline of talent, with the skill and knowledge needed to deliver library, knowledge and infor- mation services to users across sectors. Around 60 apprentices signed up to the Level 3 Library, Archive and Information Assistant apprenticeship this year, ensuring a new cohort of staff have a way into the profession. And more than 70 have passed through the apprenticeship scheme since it was launched in 2021.
“When I started working as a library assis- tant, I discovered that I really enjoyed the role, so when I was given the opportunity to complete my level 3 apprenticeship I
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Rob Green (
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cilip.org.uk) is Editor, Information Professional.
jumped at the chance. I didn’t pursue formal qualifications after school and being able to accomplish this alongside my current job was ideal.” – Apprentice.
“I think the greatest thing about this ap- prenticeship for me was the diverse range of opportunities. We weren’t limited to work- ing on the front desk. I was able to work with librarians, customer service managers and third-party organisations. Although I was just an apprentice, my ideas were fully taken into consideration and my role in anything I partook in was same as of a permanent member of staff.” – Apprentice.
“The main opportunity the apprenticeship has given me is that I have been able to have experience of the NHS Library World – a
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