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CILIP North West Members Day 2021 by Sinead English





CILIP NW Libraries Day and AGM 2021 

A Summary by Sinead English, CILIP NW Secretary


The CILIP North West Member Network held this event on Zoom on Friday 28th May, 2021. Participants could choose to attend all day or drop in to individual sessions. It was well attended; at one point there were 44 people on the call. 

The day opened with a very interesting presentation by Steve Glover (Head of Library Services, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust) entitled 'My experiences of working at the NHS Nightingale NW Hospital during COVID 19'.

This was followed by the CILIP NW AGM.

After a break for lunch several speakers provided a great variety of food for thought with their 3 minute lighting talks:


• Victoria Treadway and Gil Young (CILIP NW Professional Registration Support Officers) 'Revalidate in a Morning using a Shut Up and Write approach'
• Ingrid Francis (NHS Librarian) 'Pronouns in the workplace'
• Emma Jambor (CILIP NW Student Representative) 'The adventures of studying 
Library and Information Management
'
• Katie Nicholas (Knowledge Specialist HEE Knowledge Management Team) 'Virtual facilitation – top tips' 

We were fortunate to be able to finish the day with two more excellent presentations: Kate Kelly (Public Health England) speaking on 'Apprenticeships in Public Health England' and Diane Scarborough, Heather Berry, Stefan Jarvis, and Maria Shellard (Lancashire County Council) 'Library Apprentices in Lancashire County Council'.

On behalf of the committee we would like to extend a huge (if belated) thank you to all speakers and attendees, and we hope that you enjoyed the day as much as we did.
 
If you have any reflections about the day or would like to write something new for the CILIP NW blog about the day then please email us at info.nw@cilip.org.uk

We would like to hear from you about any ideas for events that you would like CILIP NW facilitate in the future. If you have any suggestions, or if you would like to put yourself forward as a speaker then please email chair.nw@cilip.org.uk
 


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