IN DEPTH
Buyers’ Guide 2024: Where members meet the market
What buyers and providers are saying about technology, ethics, careers, start-ups, pop-up banks and more – it’s in the CILIP Annual Buyers’ Guide Directory 2024, which will be delivered with your January/February issue of Information Professional.
WITH technology playing a huge role in the way knowledge and information is gathered, stored and accessed, so information profes- sionals and their suppliers are developing new skills, new products and new services. As part of the We are CILIP strategy, CILIP is helping information professionals in all sectors to release the value fuelled by data and informa- tion for their organisations, communities. The Annual Buyers’ Guide is one of the tools that it is using to enable this. The magazine includes buyer-focused articles featured next to our com- prehensive listings of the sectors’ suppliers. While inviting professionals and providers into thoughtful dialogue, sharing their experiences of the sector, the Buyers’ Guide showcases the latest services and products on offer, addressing the many challenges faced by our members.
Suppliers
As part of its role as a professional body CILIP has spent decades building up relationships with its members – the sector’s employers, and its suppliers. The Buyers’ Guide is an opportunity to look more closely at our supplier relation- ships and the relationships they have with our members. It is also a platform to showcase the many companies and organisations that operate in the sector. This year’s Buyers’ Guide features 142 suppliers whose products and services are dispersed among nearly 50 categories from ac- cessibility products to youth library suppliers. There are currently 30 members of CILIP’s Supplier Partner Scheme, representing a broad
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Rob Mackinlay(
rob.mackinlay@
cilip.org.uk) is a journalist at Information Professional
mix of LMS vendors, digital suppliers, design and fit-out suppliers, book and ebook suppliers, data brokers and service providers. The partnership scheme (
www.cilip.org.uk/Supplier- Partners) allows suppliers to forge more meaning- ful connections with buyers, through a range of CILIP activities and events. As well as a featuring in the Buyers’ Guide and Information Profes- sional, suppliers can take advantage of space at CILIP’s Conferences and supplier showcases to demonstrate their products and services and make meaningful face-to-face connections with buyers.
Accessing the markets Despite the pandemic and worrying financial outlook, global trends suggest there could be sig- nificant increases in library expenditure in a number of key territories across the world, including Europe.
December 2023
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