The Policy Work of CILIP’s Information Literacy Project

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What use is policy to me?

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The IL Project launched in 2010

• Copyright NASA 2011

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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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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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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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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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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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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 home internet access as default option

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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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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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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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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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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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“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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Contact details

Jacqueline May

Policy Officer

CILIP Policy Team

jacqueline.may@cilip.org.uk

020 7255 0624

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