CILIP Scotland
AS the country continued to emerge from the peak of the pandemic in 2022 the CILIP Scotland team, Sean McNamara and Kirsten MacQuarrie plus our Board and Presidential team, have contin- ued to support our members via advocacy, training, workforce development and events.
Consultation and campaigns The Libraries Are Essential campaign came to a close after two years of engag- ing with decision-makers during local and national government elections. This saw all the main parties committing to support libraries and the generation of online evidence and content. This was also backed up by the development of the PLANS (Public Library Advocacy Network Scotland), bringing together organisations who care about libraries to share ideas and evidence. This is some- thing which will be developed further in 2023 along with the CILIPS Research Fund, which we awarded for the first time this year, providing funding for library advocacy related research. Library budgets have once again been challenging and we have aimed to respond to as many consultations as possible, highlighting the value of libraries and librarians. This has included actively supporting the 40,000 strong petition and public campaign to try to save the school librarians in North Lanarkshire. This is something we will keep doing as we enter another tough financial spell for local authorities.
Professional development We also continued to offer and support professional development, including widening our professional development fund to include accessibility applica-
tions and offering a mix of online and in-person events. This included a return to our in-person two-day conference in Dundee. Led by our President Amina Shah, the event saw memorable keynote talks from the likes of The Herald editor Catherine Salmond, award winning author Damian Barr, broadcaster Gemma Cair- ney and Curator of Discomfort Zandra Yeaman. These along with many of the other sessions are available to view on the CILIPS YouTube channel.
The rest of our professional develop- ment focussed on online offers, with thousands of places booked on a range of online webinars and two mini-confer- ences on Emerging Leaders and Libraries Supporting Learners. Some other webinar highlights included the continuation of our #Winspiration programme, aiming to empower and educate all LIS profes- sionals who care about women’s equality, including a Black History Month special on decolonisation pioneer Dorothy Porter, and events about Banned Books, the cat- aloguing code of ethics and a Professional Registration workshop with our new PRSO team. We launched a new trial of a career men- torship scheme, matching 12 mentees with career mentors and we hope to expand this in the new year.
Sustainability at the heart The climate emergency was again a key
focus of our work this year as we con- tinued to develop our #CILIPSGoGreen resource collection as well as the CILIPS Membership Officer Kirsten taking a key role in coordinating the Green Libraries Network across the UK. We also created a Carbon Neutrality Plan that was shared with members and allowed us to monitor and take action to ensure our conference was carbon neutral.
We once again ran a visible and active Libraries Week programme in October. This included a skill share (including British Sign Language for Libraries video with Forth Valley Sensory Centre), a quiz night, blog posts and case studies, social media takeovers and a non-members recruitment event.
Awards
We continued to support the wider sector via awarding Honorary Memberships, and we were delighted to award Scotland’s Library and Information Professional of the Year to SarahLouise MacDonald of University of Edinburgh.
We continued to work closely with the wider sector, helping judge national book awards, supporting the implementation of the school and public library strategies and continuing to provide regular news and updates via our newsletter, website and social media.
Our Branches, Groups and communi- ties, such as the Student and New Pro- fessionals Community, have continued to build activity following the pandemic and have all had a programme of interesting activities for our members.
We look forward to developing all our work in 2023 and building on the above, with the main aim always being to pro- vide services and advocacy that meet our members’ needs.
l Stay up to date with your regional member networks and the work of the devolved networks at
www.cilip.org.uk/com- munity. IP
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