NEWS
Haringey joins Consortium
THE London Borough of Haringey has joined the Library Consortium saying its residents can now borrow and return books to 321 libraries across 23 other London Boroughs. The council website said: “Haringey
Libraries currently offers access to over 250,000 books and over 6,000 eAudio and eBook titles for residents. By joining The Libraries Consortium, Haringey library members now gain access to nearly eight million books.” Councillor Zena Brabazon, Cabinet Mem- ber for Children and Families, said: “It is fantastic, opening up so many more avenues for learning, study and reading for pleasure.”
Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary
LIBRARIES across the US have launched “Collections of Culture: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Inside Libraries, Museums and Archives” with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The celebrations, led by the Queens Public Library (QPL) New York City have included a day-long symposium on Hip- Hop fashion at the Museum of Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and a conversation about the history of hip-hop with Public Enemy’s Chuck D at QPL’s Central Library.
Future events will look at its relation- ship with mental health and its impact on global culture.
Global societal collapse?
PAUL Singer, the founder of Elliott Management, the $56bn hedge fund that owns Waterstone’s, Foyles, Blackwells in the UK and Barnes & Nobel in the US, has delivered a forecast to his investors that, according to commentators, reach whole new levels of bleakness.
In his message he says the world is “on a path to hyperinflation” and “global societal collapse” with potential to exceed any crisis since the Second World War, and the FT asks: “With a record of only two negative years since launch in 1977, would you bet against Singer being right?”.
6 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL
CILIP Conference lightning talks
CILIP is looking for aspiring and emerging leaders to give five-minute talks to delegates at Conference 2023 in Birmingham. Selected speakers will give lightning talks
that fit into Conference 2023’s over-arch- ing leadership theme. The two-day event at the Hilton Bir- mingham Metropole on 12 and 13 July, will focus on topics such as organisa- tional resilience, digital leadership and leading inclusive services. The programme also includes ses-
sions aimed at career development and empowering leaders of the future to take their next steps into managerial positions – the key focus for the sector as it seeks to fill its current leadership gap. Prospective speakers at this year’s
New Voices, Big Ideas are asked to consider ‘Leadership for changing times’ with a view to answering the question “what does modern leadership look like?” CILIP Conference programmers are inviting submissions from the sector’s aspiring and emerging leaders to explore the challenges and opportunities ahead and how they need to be tackled. This could be a look at hybrid working,
rapid digital advances, cost-of-living crisis, global climate crisis, increasing hostility to
already-marginalised groups, or anything else the sector needs to think about – pre- sented in a leadership context. For example, how could leadership adapt
to support change and foster both individ- ual and organisational resilience? Or how can good leaders develop their empathy and support for their colleagues? Submissions can either be a written proposal or video submission via https://bit. ly/3kYy9Uz. Entries close midnight 2 May and entrants who are chosen to speak will receive a free delegate place for the day. This year’s conference will bring together established, emerging and aspiring lead- ers to discuss and explore ‘top of mind’ challenges and opportunities in the sector, including:
l Leading inclusive library, information and knowledge services
l Building representative collections
l Attracting, retaining and developing talent l Promoting organisational resilience l Focusing on Wellbeing l Digital Leadership
For more details or to book your place at Conference visit
https://cilipconference.org.uk/
#WINspiration conference launched
CILIP Scotland announced the date for its #WINspiration conference on Inter- national Women’s Day 2023 – and the inaugural #WINspiration conference will take place on International Women’s Day 2024.
Feminism and Libraries are the focus
for #WINspiration which is CILIPS’ evolving resource collection (
www.cilips.
org.uk/feminism) for empowering and edu- cating LIS professionals who care about women’s equality (see pp. 24-26). The first #WINspiration conference will take place online on 8 March 2024 and CILIPS is calling for speakers from li- brary professionals at every level of their career.
Entrants are asked to familiarise themselves with the project so far before submitting a summary of their proposed session and why it fits #WINspiration. Entrants are asked to familiarise them- selves with #WINspiration so far before submitting a summary of their proposed session and why it fits #WINspiration – the deadline for submissions is 7 July at
https://bit.ly/3ZxXe7G. CILIPS said it “will endeavour to include
as wide and diverse a range of sessions as possible, and we will contact everyone by 28 July to let them know the outcome of their submissions” If you have any questions email Kirsten.
macquarrie@cilips.org.uk
March 2023
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