CILIPS Conference - book your place for 7 - 8 June 2021

Good morning

Places at the CILIPS Conference 2021 are filling up fast, if you haven't yet booked a place yet and would like to attend the event on Zoom on June 7-8th you can book your place here with places starting at only £60 for both days - https://cilips.formstack.com/forms/cilipsconference2021 

The programme is one of our best ever, featuring:

• Digital disinformation and politics – Peter Geoghegan, broadcaster and investigations editor at the award-winning news website openDemocracy and author of Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Politics
• An overview of the new National Strategy for Public Libraries, being released in 2021, with Jeanette Castle, Scottish Public Libraries Strategy Chair, UWS University Librarian and former CILIPS President
• ‘Archives and Activism: Access to and preservation of records and archives surrounding the Mother and Baby Homes network in Ireland’ with Dr Barry Houlihan, University of Ireland Galway 
• ‘The importance of literacy and access to information in engaging people around environmental issues’ with Bridget McKenzie, Founding Director of the Climate Museum UK
• Reflections from Dr John Scally, the National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland, in advance of his retirement in October 2021
• Award-winning author Kerry Hudson on ‘The Value of Libraries and Librarians’
• United and strong – key priorities for the library and information profession – Nick Poole, CILIP CEO
• Marie Østergaard, Library Director of Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark
• Liberating Structures, a session with NHS Education for Scotland Knowledge Manager Katie Edwards
• ‘Liberate our Library’ – Decolonising collections at Goldsmiths University
• ‘Creating a Rocking Online Presence – a guide for new professionals’ – Jade Koekoe, Online Presence Specialist, Australia
• ‘Living Through a Global Pandemic: what can we take forward in our libraries and as librarians?’ with Senior School Librarian Duncan Wright
• National Library of Scotland Hidden Collections with Carol Campbell, Head of Metadata at NLS
• ‘Situating the new normal: preliminary findings from the AHRC project exploring public library digital service use during COVID’ with the Department of Computer and Information Studies, University of Strathclyde
• Systemic barriers and inclusivity in literature programming – Jeda Pearl, Scottish Bame Writers Network
• The role of librarians in the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
• Revealing Hidden Herstories: The Lesbian Archive at Glasgow Women’s Library
• Health Librarians Add Value
• ‘School Libraries and Role-Playing Games’ with Kathleen O’Neill, School Librarian, Glasgow Libraries
• How The RIVAL project (https://lisrival.com) aimed to build a ‘collaborative network of Scotland-based Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers and practising library and information professionals interested in maximising the impact and value of library and information science research.’

 We hope you can join us there!

Sean McNamara  |  

Head of CILIP in Scotland

Twitter @CILIPScotland | Web: www.cilips.org.uk