Annual review 2011/12 - CILIP
Annual review 2011/12 - CILIP
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Our year<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Review <strong>2011</strong>/<strong>12</strong><br />
Highlights from the last twelve months<br />
and what to expect in the year ahead
1<br />
Welcome to our <strong>Annual</strong> Review<br />
and thank you<br />
Welcome to <strong>CILIP</strong>’s first <strong>Annual</strong> Review, which includes highlights from the last<br />
twelve months and what you can expect in the year ahead.<br />
First of all I would like to thank you for your continuing support. Without your<br />
membership and without many of you giving your time and energy to get<br />
involved, we couldn’t have achieved any of this.<br />
It’s been an incredibly busy twelve months. In 2010 a big consultation exercise<br />
with members and non-members about the future of the profession and <strong>CILIP</strong><br />
called Defining Our Professional Future led us to create a new organisation<br />
structure and new Vision and Mission to make sure we are focused on members’<br />
priorities. Since 2010 we have continued carrying out research and changing<br />
what we do and how we do it; to make sure that <strong>CILIP</strong> is the best professional<br />
body it can be.<br />
We know that professional recognition, skills development and Continuous<br />
Professional Development are at the heart of what we offer. That is why we have<br />
revised the Professional Knowledge and Skills Base; a map of the skills required<br />
to work in this sector and a valuable self-assessment tool. Over the next twelve<br />
months you will see this tool develop into a useful, interactive app.<br />
Over the last year we have increased our advocacy activities and grown our<br />
media profile on your behalf. We are improving our communications, refreshing<br />
our website, <strong>review</strong>ing how we can most effectively work with regional branches<br />
and special interest groups. We are working to introduce a Virtual Learning<br />
Environment, focusing on the policy priority areas that matter most to members,<br />
we have introduced online renewal and will soon introduce online joining.<br />
A lot has changed and there are many more innovations and improvements to<br />
come. I hope you enjoy our <strong>Annual</strong> Review.<br />
Contents<br />
Annie Mauger<br />
Chief Executive, <strong>CILIP</strong><br />
Welcome from the Chief Executive ............................ 1<br />
Professional Knowledge and Skills Base ................... 2<br />
Highlights from the past year ................................. 3-4<br />
Looking to the year ahead ........................................ 5<br />
Finances ................................................................... 6
BRAND NEW<br />
Professional Knowledge and Skills Base<br />
Through the Future Skills project, <strong>CILIP</strong> has engaged with members,<br />
non-members, employers and key stakeholders to develop our skills offer.<br />
You can use the Professional Knowledge Skills Base to:<br />
l Identify the broad range of knowledge and skills required across the library,<br />
information and knowledge profession<br />
l Use the self assessment tool to identify your level of knowledge and skills<br />
l Demonstrate to your employer or colleagues your unique knowledge<br />
and skill set<br />
l Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills<br />
l Think about training and other Continuing Professional Development<br />
opportunities to help you progress your career<br />
You can access the PKSB and find out more at www.cilip.org.uk/pksb<br />
During the end of 20<strong>12</strong> and into 2013 the Future Skills project will launch a<br />
revised accreditation process for academic and vocational qualifications<br />
and develop a revised model for <strong>CILIP</strong> Qualifications.<br />
We are now<br />
launching the first<br />
of three revised<br />
offers to come<br />
out of the Future<br />
Skills project:<br />
the Professional<br />
Knowledge and<br />
Skills Base (PKSB)<br />
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3<br />
HIGHLIGHTS from the past year<br />
It’s been an incredibly busy year for <strong>CILIP</strong>. Sadly we<br />
can’t fit everything in, but here are some highlights<br />
from the last year…<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> took a lead role<br />
supporting National<br />
Libraries Day. Over<br />
400 events across the<br />
UK and overseas took<br />
place celebrating all<br />
types of libraries, staff,<br />
users and supporters.<br />
The new-look Libraries All Party Parliamentary Group was launched. It is a<br />
useful way for <strong>CILIP</strong> to engage with MPs and Lords about a variety of library and<br />
information issues and provides opportunities for discussions and debates. The<br />
group has over 65 members and growing.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> reaffirmed its commitment to Information Literacy.<br />
A new Information Literacy special interest group was created<br />
and <strong>CILIP</strong> supported the Alexandria Proclamation – which<br />
states that Information Literacy and lifelong learning are basic<br />
human rights.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> CEO<br />
Annie Mauger gave<br />
evidence to the Westminster<br />
government’s Culture, Media<br />
and Sport Inquiry into library<br />
closures. In his evidence<br />
Libraries Minister Ed Vaizey<br />
committed to meeting with<br />
Annie about the role of<br />
library staff.<br />
Community Services and<br />
Diversity groups merged<br />
to form the Community,<br />
Diversity and Equality<br />
special interest group.<br />
Colleges of Further and<br />
Higher Education and<br />
University, College and<br />
Research groups merged<br />
to form the Academic and<br />
Research Libraries Group.<br />
Social media expert Phil<br />
Bradley was elected<br />
President. He later agreed<br />
to serve for an extra year<br />
to see through a <strong>review</strong> of<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> governance.
For the first time ever the <strong>CILIP</strong> Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s<br />
Book Awards went to the same book, A Monster Calls written by Patrick<br />
Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay. Over 90,000 children in over 4,400 reading<br />
groups shadowed the awards in library-based reading groups and posted<br />
over 14,500 <strong>review</strong>s.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> Cymru Wales and<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> in Scotland hosted<br />
two hugely successful<br />
conferences focusing on<br />
leadership, learning and<br />
digital participation.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> launched<br />
a new campaign<br />
encouraging<br />
everybody to Shout<br />
About School Libraries.<br />
The campaign will run<br />
well into 2013. Having<br />
already met with key decisionmakers<br />
including the Department<br />
for Education and Ofsted, we are<br />
working hard to advocate the<br />
positive impact a good school<br />
and school librarian can have<br />
on a child’s life chances. Visit<br />
www.schoollibraries.org for<br />
more information and to<br />
get involved.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> advocated for faster<br />
copyright reform and published<br />
guidelines for members about the<br />
implications of the Digital<br />
Economy Act.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> Mentor<br />
of the Year award<br />
was launched. The award<br />
celebrates the great work done by some of the<br />
amazing un-sung heroes of the library and<br />
information profession. It will toast those who<br />
give their time and knowledge to help others<br />
develop and grow.<br />
Over 100 new professionals, students and<br />
graduate trainees came to <strong>CILIP</strong>’s New<br />
Professionals Day to find out more about<br />
starting out and progressing in the library<br />
and information profession.<br />
Some things we couldn’t fit in: Music and song writing initiative<br />
from Skipton won the 21st <strong>CILIP</strong> Libraries Change Lives Award.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> surveyed public library authorities, the results were widely<br />
quoted in the press and Parliament. Annie Mauger addressed<br />
the Westminster Education Forum about key role librarians<br />
play improving children’s life chances. Former President Biddy<br />
Fisher received an OBE. ACLIP was recognised by the Scottish<br />
Credit and Qualifications Framework. <strong>CILIP</strong> staff went ‘back to<br />
the floor’ and each spent a day shadowing a member at work.<br />
For the first time <strong>CILIP</strong>’s Big Day and AGM took place outside<br />
London – in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. <strong>CILIP</strong> Cymru Wales held<br />
a special Love Your Library event with the Women’s Institute<br />
at the Welsh Assembly. Hundreds of events took place across<br />
the country organised by <strong>CILIP</strong>, <strong>CILIP</strong> in Wales, <strong>CILIP</strong> in Ireland,<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> in Scotland, regional branches and special interest groups.<br />
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5<br />
LOOKING to the year ahead<br />
A lot of change will take place over the next twelve months.<br />
This is a taste of what you can expect…<br />
E-voting in<br />
elections for<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> Trustees<br />
and Vice President<br />
Refreshed <strong>CILIP</strong> website with cleaner<br />
design and improved functionality<br />
New members benefit: free Encyclopaedia<br />
Britannica app for iPad, iPhone and<br />
iPod Touch<br />
Support for your learning, knowledge sharing and skills<br />
development through a new Virtual Learning Environment<br />
Revised skills and qualifications<br />
offer, and more engagement with<br />
employers about the value of <strong>CILIP</strong><br />
qualifications and membership<br />
Review of how <strong>CILIP</strong> governance works<br />
to provide the organisation with the best<br />
leadership possible<br />
Programme of activity to engage with<br />
politicians, influencers and<br />
decision-makers, including<br />
meetings, briefings and debates<br />
More campaigning, more<br />
advocacy and more work to<br />
raise our profile with the<br />
media<br />
Online joining to help drive<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> membership<br />
Improved Umbrella conference: more<br />
focused, more relevant and with<br />
higher profile speakers than ever
FINANCES<br />
The major organisational restructure in <strong>2011</strong> not only refocused <strong>CILIP</strong> on<br />
what members told us they wanted, it also streamlined activities and cut our<br />
cost base dramatically. In a tough economic climate, income was down on<br />
2010 by £780,000 but we made savings of £865,000 by closing loss-making<br />
enterprises, reducing staff costs and generally becoming a more efficient<br />
operation. This was demonstrated by our end of year operational results<br />
which showed a surplus of nearly £110,000 against a deficit of almost<br />
£500,000 in 2010.<br />
Total income for central operations<br />
in <strong>2011</strong> was £4,162,000, made up of:<br />
Total expenditure on central<br />
operations in <strong>2011</strong> was<br />
£4,693,000. The pie chart<br />
shows our continuing<br />
emphasis on strengthening<br />
advocacy for the professions<br />
and focusing on the provision<br />
of services to members:<br />
Commercial<br />
Income<br />
35%<br />
Rental Income<br />
9%<br />
Investment Income<br />
2% Other Income<br />
5%<br />
Governance<br />
3%<br />
Services<br />
to Tenants<br />
2%<br />
Net return on<br />
Pension Fund*<br />
Advocacy,<br />
International Work,<br />
Member Services<br />
55%<br />
*notional negative net return on <strong>CILIP</strong>’s<br />
defined benefit pension scheme which was closed in <strong>2011</strong><br />
Members can download detailed financial information for <strong>2011</strong> from<br />
http://tinyurl.com/csj3t5h<br />
8%<br />
Members’<br />
Subscriptions<br />
55%<br />
Training, Events,<br />
Conferences<br />
14%<br />
Publications<br />
11%<br />
Qualifications,<br />
Accreditation, CPD,<br />
Workforce Development<br />
7%<br />
One of <strong>CILIP</strong>’s<br />
key business plan<br />
objectives is to<br />
become a more<br />
sustainable<br />
organisation and<br />
we continue<br />
towards this in<br />
20<strong>12</strong> which will<br />
be the first full year<br />
to show the full<br />
financial benefits<br />
of last year’s<br />
reorganisation<br />
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About us<br />
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the<br />
leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and<br />
knowledge managers.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong>’s vision is a fair and economically prosperous society underpinned<br />
by literacy, access to information and the transfer of knowledge. <strong>CILIP</strong><br />
provides support for members throughout their careers and speaks<br />
out on behalf of the profession.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> is a UK-wide organisation. There is representation across the<br />
devolved nations through <strong>CILIP</strong> Cymru Wales, <strong>CILIP</strong> Ireland and<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> in Scotland.<br />
<strong>CILIP</strong> is a registered charity, no. 313014.<br />
Contact us<br />
Twitter: @<strong>CILIP</strong>info • Email: info@cilip.org.uk • Phone: (+44)20 7255 0500<br />
www.cilip.org.uk<br />
7 Ridgmount Street London WC1E 7AE UK<br />
Published September 20<strong>12</strong>