IN DEPTH
CILIP Conference Highlights
CILIP Conference 2024 is set to take place in Birmingham on 10 and 11 July – featuring exciting speakers and sessions from across the profession and beyond. Here Louise Greener, Conference organiser looks at some of this year’s highlights.
CILIP Conference is an opportunity to come together, learn and share knowl- edge with colleagues from across the library, information and knowledge management sectors.
Returning to Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, the conference will feature ‘‘top-of-mind’ issues for leaders at all levels, with a particular focus on intellectual freedom and its associated themes of freedom of expression, censorship and information rights.
Delegates can also look out for sessions cov- ering topics on:
● Developing future literacy as a leader;
● The sector’s response to the UN Sustainabil- ity Goals; ● Storytelling for impact; ● Crisis and strategic communications;
● Building future resilience in the face of con- tinuing resource and budget pressures.
Aside from a packed programme, there will be opportunities to network and attend social events over the course of the two-day con- ference. It will also be a first chance to meet and hear from CILIP’s new CEO Louis Coif- fait-Gunn.
Book your place at
www.cilipconference.org.uk and 18 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL
read on to find out more about some of this year’s highlights.
Intellectual Freedom highlights Daniel Gorman, Director of English PEN – the oldest free speech organisation in the world – opens CILIP Conference with a keynote address on the importance of intellectual freedom, heralding our headline programme theme for 2024 (read an interview with Daniel at
https://tinyurl.com/3xbb2xrc).
Later that day, we’ll hear from fellow keynote Stijn Hoorens, Director at RAND Europe, a not-for-profit research institution, on the concerning trend of truth decay in Europe. Hooren’s address will speak to a 2021 research
April-May 2024
Louise Greener is Events and Awards Manager at CILIP.
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