safely, and in ways that genuinely support their day-to-day work. While conversations about AI often focus on clinical applications, this session takes a different angle - exploring how Copilot can help with the everyday administrative and communication tasks that underpin library and knowledge services.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/2tvb4mzy


CILIP RPG visit to Great Ormond Street Library Hosted by CILIP RPG 14 May, 2pm


Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library


The Library provides information support and information skills training for staff and students at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and the staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital. A library has existed on-site since the Institute was founded in 1946. The Library’s current building was opened in September 1996. The ICH Library merged with UCL Library Services in 2009. The Library was refurbished and reopened in August 2017.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/4wxxh7zm


YLG London One Day School 2026 Hosted by YLG


15 May, 9am to 4pm Brixton Library


Reading Role Models: Empowering adults to create a reading culture Youth Libraries Group London One Day School.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/2b7w6mwj


Beyond the Horizon 2026: CILIP North East


Hosted by CILIP North East 18 May, 1pm to 4.45pm Online


Join CILIP NE for its annual where informa- tion and knowledge professionals will share work that they are doing that is ‘Beyond the


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Getting Started with Professional Registration


Hosted by Prison Libraries Group 19 May, 2pm to 3.30pm Online


Join Victoria Treadway and Gil Young (Profes- sional Registration Support Officers for CILIP) to find out why professional registration is the next step in your career. This session is free and aimed at anyone interested in undertaking professional registration, or who has already started and would like a refresher. It will cover: Registering for professional registration; The support available to you; An initial look at the PKSB and the criteria; Starting to think about evidence.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/43d33mwb


MDG Visit to Drawing Room Hosted by the Metadata and Discovery Group 20 May, 12.30pm


Drawing Room, Bermondsey


Following on from a successful webinar delivered as part of the Practical Cataloguing Webinar series in November 2025, Yamuna Ravindran, Librarian invites MDG members to visit Drawing Room. Yamuna joined Drawing Room in 2013 to set up the library and looks after the development of the research collec- tion and the public programme. She studied BA Art History, MA Contemporary Art Theory, and MA Library & Information Studies and her current research interests include community publishing, and auralities.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/2s4bt8tu


Horizon’, including Back to basics: developing, implementing and evaluating stock management training for a public library service – Elena Bill; and Academic podcasting as a new layer of research support – Domi Smithson.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/3jvxvddn


Information as an Asset: Still relevant in 2026


Hosted by K&IM 21 May, 12.30pm Online


Re-examining the 2019 CILIP/KPMG report Information as an Asset and asking how far its five identified priorities still hold up today. We will revisit the original themes – AI, machine learning and automation; the growth in volume and scope of information; intercon- nection through APIs and related technologies; information governance; and data privacy and regulation – and consider whether they remain equally important, or whether we would rank them differently now.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/4wjdsstu


CILIP London: Visit to Sutton Central Library


Hosted by CILIP London 22 May, 4pm to 6pm Sutton Central Library


A visit to Sutton Central library, hosted by Patrick Malone, to discuss their National Year of Reading events engaging adult readers.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/ywuax35t


Libraries and the National Year of Reading plus CILIPS Annual General Meeting


Hosted by CILIPS 27 May, 2pm to 3.30pm


Engineers’ House, Clifton Down, Bristol BS8 2N


Please join us for the CILIP Scotland AGM and then welcome speakers from the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency from the National Year of Reading to find out more about how libraries of all types in Scotland can ‘Go All In’.


Register at: https://tinyurl.com/4fv4dyfj April-May 2026


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