1. The Policy Work of CILIP’s
Information Literacy Project
Board
What use is policy to
me?
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2. The IL Project launched in
2010
• Copyright NASA 2011
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3. Members of the IL Board
• Barbara Band (Chair)
• Elizabeth Bentley (SLG Committee member)
• Natasha Choolhun (Law librarian)
• Nancy Graham (ILG Committee member)
• Charlie Inskip (Academic sector)
• Liz McGettigan (Scotland, CILIP trustee)
• Darren Smart (Public libraries
• Tom Roper (Health Sector librarian)
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4. Overall Aim of the IL Project
• For CILIP to be seen as a key
stakeholder and participant in IL across
a range of issues
To achieve this CILIP will:
• Continue to integrate IL into key areas of
CILIP activity (PKSB for eg.)
• Work in partnership with other
organisations to establish role and profile
of CILIP (eg. CarnegieUK Trust)
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5. IL and your work survey
2013
In a survey of our membership in
2013, 89%of respondents working
outside the academic sector
believed IL to be an important part
of what they do.
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6. Key benefits of IL project
• Increased knowledge of LIS role in IL (and
that includes digital inclusion)
• Uniting the profession across discipline,
and sector to acknowledge the public
good of information literacy
• Increasing the profile of our members
work to government
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7. Achievements of the project
• A digital participation summit in 2013 attended
by organisations from non LIS sector
• Press statements on IL issues; e-safety, GDS
(Government Digital Strategy) commented on
Cabinet Office Digital Inclusion Checklist
• Endorsed Alexandria Proclamation on IL and
adopted as CILIP statement on IL
• Draft Policy statement on digital inclusion
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8. Examples of our advocacy activities
around e-safety
• Press statements and a President’s blog
on SID (Safer Internet Day) for past two
years
• Contributed to Digital Policy Alliance
Report on recent developments on child
safety
• Blog on Government’s plans on filtering
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9. Plans for 2014
CILIP will be hosting two Roundtables:
– E-safety
– IL in the workplace - this will be a new area for
CILIP and will require some stakeholder
mapping
Outcomes
– two policy statements
– raising awareness of LIS sector in this area
– Inform resources on CILIP’s new VLE
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10. What is Policy?
The pursuit of influencing outcomes, including ..resources
allocation that directly affect people’s current lives (Cohen,
2001)
• A view taken by an organisation or
Government on a particular subject or
issue.
• Policy statements will usually set out what
the issue is, what needs to be done and
can contain sets of recommendations for
action.
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11. Why is policy important?
• Policy is closely tied to advocacy. If we
want to advocate we have to have a policy
or stance - an indication of where we are
coming from
• Policy statements allow us to see what
other organisations are working in the
same arena and can help to pinpoint
potential partners
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12. What can CILIP policy
statements do for me?
• They indicate in a clear concise way to
key decision makers your role as a library
and information professional
• They can form the basis for debate
• They can provide the basis for change if
they include recommendations for action
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13. How many Policy statements
does CILIP have?
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Ludwig Mies Van der Rhohe, Architect and designer 1886 – 1969
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14. “Less is more”
• CILIP has 9 Policy statements.
There is no point in creating lots of policy
statements if you aren’t going to support
them with some action.
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15. Contact details
Jacqueline May
Policy Officer
CILIP Policy Team
jacqueline.may@cilip.org.uk
020 7255 0624
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