Autumn 2009

Autumn 2009 Volume 12 Number 3

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CONTENTSELENI ZAZANIMaking connections under the sameUMBRELLA: Report on the 2009 conference

TRACEY AINSLEYCDG and ILIG Hosts Directory

VINCENT MCDONALDUpdate from India

CDG: NOTICE OF ANNUAL ELECTIONS

KATE HALABURAA passion for libraries and reading

CDG HONORARY FELLOWSHIP AWARDCall for nominations

DANIEL PARKFocus on outreach: Surveys to engage with‘hard to reach’ groups

LAURA ASHFORD & MARIA COTERAThe Career Development Group Network forNew Professionals

SARA WEINTRAUBUnusual Libraries: The Queen Mary 2

ZEN MUMFORDDeveloping projects: CPD whilst you work

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Welcome to the autumn editionof Impact.

In this edition we bring you a fantasticreport from Eleni Zazani, the winner of theCareer Development Group sponsored placeat this year’s UMBRELLA conference. Thereis also plenty of news on the new profes-sionals front, so if that’s you and you wantto get involved with CDG, make sure thatyou read the inspiring article from LauraAshford and President Maria Cotera.

Kate Halabura has written an article on herlove for reading and libraries which I thinkreminds us all why public libraries are soimportant. Plus you will also get a lot ofgreat tips from Daniel Park’s article onconducting surveys to engage with ‘hard toreach’ groups.

Please don’t forget to read VincentMcDonald’s update from India where CDG issponsoring his VSO work. Vincent’s experi-ences in the slums show just how importanthis work is.

We also have an interesting take on usingprojects to add to your CPD repertoire fromZen Mumford and a piece about the libraryon the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship!

We hope our readers enjoy the articles inthis edition and wish you all the best.

Cheney Gardner and Victoria McAra

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Ithaca, C.P. Cavafy, The Canon.Translated from the Greek by Ilia Daoussi, 2009

My own journey to Ithaca started ayear ago, when I decided to leavethe academic library post I had

been in for 11 years in Athens, and travel allthe way to London to seek new careerprospects. Moving to another country just toexpand professional awareness and ac-quire new skills may seem radical, but forme it was nothing more than the need toquench my thirst for knowledge and seek aprofessionally meaningful life.

The UMBRELLA conference proved to bethe perfect gateway for me to increase myawareness of the British library world andbecome more familiar with ideas andtrends. Most importantly, it served as anunmatched opportunity to regain my pas-sion for my profession, network with dele-gates and gain a sense of belonging. Thetheme ‘Making connections’ expressed ex-actly what I needed. I feel particularly hon-oured and grateful to have been sponsoredby the Career Development Group to attendthe ‘event of the year’. I would not have hadthe opportunity to benefit from it if it weren’tfor the CDG.

After the end of the event, it took me morethan a week to filter all the concepts and

different shades of the conference. I believeit is almost impossible to fit them all in thisarticle but I would like to seize the opportu-nity to share some of them.

The sessionsOf the 54 inspiring, creative and hard toselect sessions, spread over nine subjectstreams, I finally managed to pick presenta-tions from five main streams.

1. The shock of the new - Technology

Libraries coping with Technology: Wav-ing or drowning?As we are still trying to become familiar withand adopt Web 2.0 related technologies,Richard Wallis outlined the next ‘wave oftechnology’, paving our way towards theWeb 3.0 era. His impressive presentation,with live examples of linking data in nextgeneration OPAC interfaces, illustratedhow libraries will provide enriched, linkedcontent to their users. I left the lecture-room

‘When you set out on your way toIthaca, pray that your journey islong, full of adventures, full of

knowing.’

Making connections under the sameUMBRELLA: Report on the 2009 conference

Eleni ZazaniSponsored as a delegate by the Career Development Group

UMBRELLA 2009


· With knowledge of web-based trendsand Web 3.0 philosophy

· With the assurance of staying safe onthe surface of the ‘technological ocean’

· Trusting in our natural ability to beflexible and ‘reframe our thinking’

· Assured that people and technologywalk together

· Overwhelmed by the rapid changes

2. Our skills

Weaselling your way into your students’hearts: Screenwriting and movies foreducation and trainingGareth Johnson provided a powerfulhands-on workshop, initiating us into themysteries of video making as a fun andmemorable medium for training users andstaff. He demystified the difficulties ofscreen writing and filming for the purposesof ‘edutainment’. I left the lecture-room

· With information on creating education-al and promotional videos, along withtemplates for plotting scenarios andfilming

· With practical tips on writing screen-plays

· Thinking like Woody Allen or Mel Brooks· Aware of the educational power of hu-

mour· Smiling!

3. The value of libraries: advocacy andfunding

Passport to success: The value ofcollaborations and partnershipsThe two speakers provided case studies onbuilding exemplary collaborations and part-nerships with librarians in third world coun-tries. Maria Cotera in particular, infused uswith her enthusiasm for fostering partner-ships with African prison librarians, high-lighting the main aspects of the AAP (1).Shane Godbolt (2) shared her passion andexperience in supporting partnerships be-tween health libraries in the UK, Africa andAsia. Both speakers presented a highlyinfluential and passionate session, high-lighting the main aspects of a successfulpartnership along with the skills we maycultivate as active partners. I left the lec-ture-room

· Aware of the value of professional ac-tivism

· With a long list of transferable skills toimplement in my working environment

· With a sense of the big picture· Aware of the power of cross-sectoral

networks· Knowing how I can help· Recognising how activism enriches

our professional lives and increasesour sense of achievement

Demonstrating our contribution: usingevidence to illustrate how libraries sup-port learning, teaching, and researchPhilip Payne and Dr Angela Conyers (3)highlighted the importance of collecting evi-dence on our performance and demonstrat-ed the value and impact of the library withinan institution. I left the lecture-room

· Aware that measuring our contributiongives proof of our value and influenceand is essential for representing valuefor money

Libraries Change Lives Awards


· Knowing SCONUL’s top concerns(from the 2009 survey), which arefunding and financial management,E-environment, space and buildings(4)

4. Information skills for life

Creative integration: InformationLiteracy and the CurriculumChris Powis explored the prejudices onengaging with academics ‘on their ground’.Librarians as teachers need to

· Build high-trust relationships· Feel emotionally comfortable· Market ourselves as educators· Contribute in Teaching and Learning

committees· Be visible in our institutions· Obtain accredited teaching qualifica-

tions and awards to be able to speak‘the academics’ language

· Raise our credibility through CPD,scholarships and research

· Identify opportunities for collaboratingwith lecturers (e.g. Combating plagia-rism)

Creative integration of informationliteracy (IL)Carol Webb shared her experience of work-ing with teachers in her school to help pu-pils gain transferable IL skills, and ofmanaging to be visible and build endorsingrelationships.

The 'Inspector Morse factor'Andy Priestner employed the fictional char-acter of ‘Inspector Morse’ to illustrate hisengagement in teaching IL in Oxford &Cambridge Universities’ libraries. I left thelecture-room

· Inspired by ideas about teaching ILskills

· Aware of tested approaches on in-

creasing credibility while engaging withacademics

· with the invitation to link the message ofour mission in every occasion

5. Our professional futureSpeakers were Tom Forrest, Helen Dahlke,(‘Librarians: the next generation’) andCheney Gardner, (‘Making your own luck:Looking ahead and getting involved’).

The last session led us to the pinnacle ofthe conference. The speakers presentedtheir personal experiences as case studiesto inspire and lead us towards a more satis-fying career development. I left the lecture-room

· Aware of the key aspects of a flourish-ing and developing career

· Confident that I am on the right path· Confident in my choice of practices

Plenary and AwardsI could go on writing innumerable pages onthe plenary sessions and awards but as thisis not possible, I will only refer to my overallsense. Charles M. Brown opened the con-ference and his inspired talk was a preludeof what was to follow. His vision of creatingnot just the best but ‘the very best’ librarygave me a clear message; there is alwaysroom for improvement even if we have al-ready reached a point of excellence.

A spectacular lesson learnt is that some-times it takes only a single occasion for achance to offer new services. I was deeplymoved at the Libraries Change Lives Awardceremony, when the Leeds Library andInformation Service was rewarded for com-bating inequality and ‘enabling parents andautistic children to communicate with eachother’. The message put across by theproject ‘Across the Board: Autism supportfor families’ was utterly influential.


Calling all hosts! The Career Development Group (CDG) and the International Library &Information Group (ILIG) jointly share responsibility for maintaining the Hosts directory. Iwould like to thank all of you who have been hosts. The directory has been invaluable and

I am currently updating our records for the 150 hosts who are already registered. You will shortlyreceive a letter from me to check the details we have are still current. Have you moved house orchanged jobs? If so we may need to amend our records. If you have not received a letter by theend of September please contact me on [email protected].

For those of you who don’t know what the directory is, it is a list of people who are willing to actas host to international library and information workers on short visits to the UK.If you would like to find out more or become a host see http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/careerdevelopment/whatwedo/hostsdirectory.htm.

Tracey AinsleyHonorary International Officer

Looking Back…The amount of information that stayed withme after each session, demonstrates howmy understanding was enhanced. ThePosters are also worth mentioning, as theygave me a panoramic view of the kind ofprojects run by institutions around the sec-tor, along with the Exhibition where cuttingedge products and services were demon-strated.

The conference was quite overwhelming asall the new information generated manynew ideas. It provided me with the startingpoint to think ahead. My questioning mindwas recharged and the inspiring atmos-phere stirred my passion.

As I arrived a day before the official start ofthe conference, I had the chance to have achat with CILIP’s governors after attendingthe Council meeting as an observer. Thefirst-timers’ lunch, the Gala dinner, thebreaks between sessions, and the karaokenight not only proved entertaining, but alsoan undeniable networking opportunity forme. Moreover, on my way to the venue andback and through all the social events, I metmany fellow librarians. I know I will meetwith some at a future conference but withsome others I have established a channel

of regular communication. As a result, theobjective of increasing my sense of belong-ing was not only fulfilled but I also feelprivileged to be part of the CILIP community.

My career was taken forward...The sponsorship announcement brought animmense change to my life. The entire uni-verse conspired to my advantage and aprofessional job offer came soon after,which I happily accepted. Furthermore, Ijoined the CDG London and South EastDivisions committee as the Website Officerand I am about to start my chartership thismonth. There is no doubt that I am lookingforward to UMBRELLA 2011!

Eleni [email protected]

N.B.: To facilitate any further reading on the confer-ence concepts, I gathered links which can be foundunder the username Umbrella2009, onhttp://delicious.com/Umbrella2009

1) African Prisons Project (APP),http://www.africanprisons.org/2) Actively involved with Partnerships in Health Information(Phi), http://www.partnershipsinhealthinformation.org.uk/3) Members of the Value and Impact Measurement Pro-grammehttp://vamp.diglib.shrivenham.cranfield.ac.uk/performance4) More about the SCONUL survey onhttp://www.sconul.ac.uk/members/topconcerns/focus46_article.pdf


I am now in the second year of my VSOplacement as Communications Adviserto the Network of Maharashtra People

with HIV, based in Pune, Maharashtra, In-dia.

I spent a morning with staff from a fellownon-governmental organisation (NGO)called Deep Griha (Lighthouse) who oper-ate in one of Pune’s biggest slums. It has18,000 houses and a population of 40,000.I went with two young women social work-ers, one of whom was born in the slum. Thehouses are more solid than in many slums,mainly brick or concrete, with corrugatediron roofs. In places two people walking inopposite directions need to pass sideways,and the twists in the little passagewayssoon left me completely disorientated.

One of the women we visited was HIV pos-itive. Fortunately, although her husbandhad died of AIDS a couple of years ago, herthree children are negative. She was mak-ing chapattis, flat Indian breads, when wearrived, rolling out the mix and cookingthem on a flat griddle heated by a bottledgas burner. She earns her living by cookingtiffin lunches.

About 20 of the tin stacks were waiting to befilled with the standard 3 or 4 chapattis, rice,dahl, and subzhi, vegetable curry. Shecharges 25 Rs, about 30p, for a substantialmeal. Many of the organisations that workwith the poor or with people infected withHIV try to set them up in businesses like thisso that they can survive. It is important thatthey have an income as they need a goodlevel of nutrition to keep AIDS at bay.

The house was typical of most of those wevisited, a single room downstairs which iskitchen and dining and living room. Thesingle bedroom is upstairs. A number ofhouses have small balconies upstairs thatprotrude over the alleyways. Many haveflower pots. The washroom in the housewas a cubicle built into the downstairs livingspace. The slum is well off as it has toiletsin public blocks, provided by the‘corporation’, the local council. People carrysmall buckets of water with them when theyvisit these for their ablutions. There were anumber of outside taps visible, so I waspuzzled by the constant passage of womenand children carrying containers of water.‘Why don’t they use the taps?’ ‘The wateronly comes on at 2 pm’.

We went past one house where a man ofperhaps 30 lay on some bedding in a cor-ner. The room was completely bare exceptfor the bedroll. This was a single storyhouse, just a single room, and the ironsheets covered only half of the roof, the restbeing open sky. The women stopped to

Update from IndiaVincent McDonald

‘The slum is well off as it has toi-lets in public blocks, provided by

the ‘corporation’, the local council’


greet him. ‘Do you want to see?’ Theyasked me. ‘See what?’ But before theycould answer, the man pulled back thesheet which covered him and revealed thatboth his legs were cut off above the knee. Ifelt totally at loss for a response. As wewalked away they told me he was a drinkerwho had fallen under a train. ‘Who looksafter him?’ ‘His sister, she lives nearby’.

One couple invited us in. When we hadbeen there about 10 minutes, and our fresh-ly boiled tea had been served to us, ayounger couple arrived. I think they musthave been summoned by our hosts as theyoung man, who worked in computers asan engineer, spoke English. I realised thiswhen after a few minutes he turned to meand said in decent English ‘so you arehaving a tour of the slums. You want to seethe real India?’ There was an unmistakabletouch of resentment. Who could blame him,to see a strange foreigner coming to gawpat the place he grew up in? He softenedwhen I said I was working for an HIV NGO.

As we walked on we came across a protestmarch of women, in what were probablytheir best saris, carrying placards andchanting. There must have been a hundredof them, but not a single man. They wereprotesting about the lack of adequate provi-sion of services like water and electricity.Many of the women grinned good naturedlyat me as they passed.

I thought of something I had read in thepaper a few days earlier. Some women in avillage in rural Maharashtra used to have towalk 4 kms to collect water from the nearestwell. The women of the village were knownfor having bald patches. The daily hoursspent carrying water wore away their hair.

A few years ago the women decided thattheir daughters would not have bald patch-es. They raised money from various chari-ties and councils, enough to pay for thewell, but also for pumps and internal plumb-ing in each house. A small sum wascharged monthly to each family to pay forthe running and maintenance of the system.

When all was running smoothly, they hand-ed over to the men to run the system. Aftera year or so things started to fall apart.Money went missing from the accounts,and the routine maintenance failed to hap-pen. The women got so fed up they tookcontrol back from the men and are runningit themselves again.

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On the 6th August 2009 a judge in the Bom-bay High Court ordered the State AIDSControl Society for Maharashtra to providesecond line treatment to a list of people withAIDS.

The state provides first line treatment toanyone in Maharashtra who needs it free ofcharge, once their CD4 count, which is anindicator of the disease, reaches a certainlevel. Once they start on first line, they needto follow the treatment guidelines strictly. Inparticular, they need to take their medicineevery day. Any casualness about this al-lows the virus to develop an immunity to thefirst line drugs. Once that happens, the firstline drugs are useless, and second linedrugs are their only hope. It isn’t only thecareless (or uninformed) that need secondline. There can be other reasons why thefirst line drugs are not suitable for a positiveperson.

The problem is that second line drugs arevery expensive, ten times the price of firstline, and much more toxic than first line. So

‘Who could blame him, to see astrange foreigner coming to gawp

at the place he grew up in?’


they require much more skilled medicalsupervision, and present a budgetary chal-lenge to the state to afford them from theirHIV budget.

The state requires people to meet certaincriteria before they will give second line.These criteria seemed to my organisation tobe less about assessing clinical need andmore about putting barriers in the way ofpeople needing treatment so they couldsave money.

We have been campaigning for a year to tryand force the state to provide second linedrugs to anyone who needs them. It hasbeen our major campaign and one that Ihave been working on with a colleague,

Pravin. We have had the help of an organi-sation called the Human Rights Law Net-work, an organisation of lawyers who fightfree of charge for human rights. It was theirlawyer, Kranti, who faced the judge with ourcase. The state argued that they could notafford the treatment but the judge had nosympathy with this argument. He told themto find the money and start the treatment ofall who are waiting immediately.

It is a huge victory for us. The only restrainton our jubilation is the thought of the sixwho have died awaiting second line duringthe course of our campaign.

Vincent [email protected]

Career Development GroupNOTICE OF ANNUAL ELECTIONS

1. Honorary Officers of the CareerDevelopment GroupNominations are invited for the posts ofVice President, Honorary Website Coordi-nator, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Sec-retary, Honorary Publications Officer,Honorary New Professionals Coordinator,Honorary Membership & Marketing Officer,Honorary Learning Coordinator, HonoraryInternational Relations Officer, HonoraryEvents Coordinator, Honorary Editor andHonorary Advertising Officer of the CareerDevelopment Group to serve from 1st Jan-uary – 31st December 2010.

If there is only one nominee for a post, thatperson will be declared elected. If morethan one nomination for the same post isreceived, we will look at the possibility ofrole-sharing. In case of several nomina-

tions, or in roles where sharing may not bepractical, a public election will be held. Thecandidate with the highest number of votesshall be elected. Job descriptions for all theabove posts are available athttp://www.cilip.org.uk/cdg.

Nominees for the post of Vice Presidentmust have previous experience as CDGNational Councillors. Nominees for the postof Honorary Learning Coordinator are re-quired to be Chartered members of CILIP.

Nominations must be submitted in writingby 30th October 2009 at the latest to thePast President, Amanda Quick, 6 ClairWood Place, Cupar, Fife KY15 4GZ, signedby two or more members of the CareerDevelopment Group, and countersigned bythe nominee. Please include details of serv-


ice to the Career Development Group as anHonorary or Divisional Officer or Divisionalcommittee member; any active involvementwithin CILIP, its Branches and other SpecialInterest Groups; CILIP membershipnumber; and a statement of not more than200 words indicating what you could bringto the role. Please note that the 200 wordstatement is not required from currentlyserving Honorary Officers who are seekingre-election to the same role.

Honorary Officer nomination forms areavailable from: http://www.cilip.org.uk/cdg

As part of its Equal Opportunities policy, theCareer Development Group welcomesnominations from all members, and in par-ticular from currently under-representedgroups such as members from diverse eth-nic backgrounds and new professionals.We will respect and affirm diversity of allkinds and will challenge and confront dis-crimination and prejudice.

2. Divisional electionsNominations are invited for Divisional Offic-ers to serve from 1st January – 31st De-cember 2010 for each of the followingDivisions: Devon and Cornwall, East Mid-lands, East of England, London & SouthEast Divisions, North West, Northeastern,Northern Ireland, Scottish, Wales, WestCountry, West Midlands, Yorkshire andHumberside. For a complete list of posts,please visit: http://www.cilip.org.uk/cdg.

If there is only one nominee for a post, thatperson will be declared elected. If morethan one nomination for the same post isreceived, we will look at the possibility ofrole-sharing. In case of several nomina-tions, or in roles where sharing may not bepractical, a public election will be held. Thecandidate with the highest number of votesshall be elected.

Nominations must be submitted in writingby 30th October 2009 at the latest to theHonorary Secretary, Kerry Benstead, Infor-mation Manager, LG75, Library Services,KAI Strategic Analysis & Coordination, HM-RC, 100 Parliament Street, London SW1A2BQ, signed by two or more members andcountersigned by the nominee. Please in-clude details of service to the Career Devel-opment Group as an Honorary or DivisionalOfficer or Divisional committee member,and any active involvement within CILIP, itsBranches and other Special InterestGroups; CILIP membership number; and astatement of not more than 200 words indi-cating what you could bring to the role.Please note that the 200 word statement isnot required from currently serving Division-al Officers who are seeking re-election tothe same role.

Please note that Candidate Support Offic-ers are required to be Chartered membersof CILIP.

Divisional Officer nomination forms areavailable from: http://www.cilip.org.uk/cdg.

As part of its Equal Opportunities policy, theCareer Development Group welcomesnominations from all members, and in par-ticular from currently under-representedgroups such as members from diverse eth-nic backgrounds and new professionals.We will respect and affirm diversity of allkinds and will challenge and confront dis-crimination and prejudice.

Kerry BensteadCDG Honorary Secretary

‘The Career Development Groupwelcomes nominations from all

members’


A passion for libraries and readingKate Halabura

I believe this quote is about me. I am atrue and proper bookworm, someonewho devours books every day, and my

scariest nightmare would be to wake up oneday and have nothing to read. I am notsaying that I am an academic, I do notspend time analysing every page and forev-er wondering about the real meaning of aparticular phrase, but I read books, enjoythem and then read more.

This is probably why I love working in publiclibraries. Not only I am the first one to dis-cover new titles to read, I can also recom-mend purchases to my manager and, inwhat is the most satisfying part of my job, Ican recommend books to our customers. Infact there is nothing more satisfying thanthe reader returning the book and sayinghow grateful they are, and how much theyenjoyed a book they would not otherwisehave read. I have recommended holidayreads, books for reluctant teenagers,children’s books, chilling thrillers and ro-mances.

The other day I spent half an hour discuss-ing crime novels I had read with one of ourregular customers, browsing the shelveslooking for titles I thought she might enjoyreading and promising myself to read allthose great books she said were good (afterI cleared my two years worth book backlog,that is). I have discovered many new au-thors I enjoy through recommendations

from other customers and, although I haveno time to read them all, I remember themfor future reference.

I always try to be on top of the literary news,such as book prize nominations (OrangePrize, Costa Awards, Man Booker Prizeetc), and newly published titles. I follownews on book prize websites to make surethat our library stocks shortlisted books. Iregularly browse available websites tocheck what new titles have been publishedrecently and read book reviews. I subscribeto Newbooks magazine, which is a goodsource of information about recent publica-tions that are not necessarily best sellers.

I like to know about books that are popularnow, those that everyone is talking about,and those which haven’t been publishedyet, but already are creating an interest.One of the most important things I have

‘The one thing that I regret is that Iwill never have time to read all the

books I want to read’

F Sagal


learnt through my job is knowledge of li-brary stock, and also – perhaps even moreimportantly - knowledge of current readingtrends, reading development matters andinitiatives. Passing on the love of reading,encouraging people to try new books andrecommending good reads are in my opin-ion the core responsibilities of anyone work-ing in a public library. That’s why I believe inthe importance of professional develop-ment. I have many opportunities for improv-ing my knowledge and skills to benefitcustomers: through learning on the job, bytalking to library customers, through net-working with other professionals and ex-changing good ideas and best practiceexamples.

I take an immense pride in my knowledgeand the fact that sometimes I am able to finda book in the library following only the vagu-est clues. Some time ago I managed todiscover the title and author of the bookwhen my only clues were: “It is a bookabout a Jewish lady. I think she married arabbi. It is non-fiction.” (The answer was:The Rabbi’s daughter by Reva Mann by theway!)

I currently work as a Senior Library Assist-ant for Wandsworth Libraries. I am one ofthe frontline staff, and although I am quali-fied, and naturally would like to work in aprofessional post, I sometimes wonder ifthat would mean I would have to compro-mise – some of the professional posts onlyallow limited contact with members of thepublic. So much emphasis is put on theinformation services the library provides, somuch paperwork is involved in running thelibrary on a daily basis that less time is leftto talk to readers about what they came tothe library for in the first place - books. Ihope that I will be lucky enough to find apost which will allow me to combine myprofessional knowledge and my enthusi-

asm for reading. Frontline staff might not beengaged in particularly ambitious projects,but our work plays a significant role in pro-moting library services in the local commu-nity. I hope that my current contribution tothe service will help me to keep in touchwith the ‘human’ side of my job in my futurecareer!

My professional life revolves around booksand libraries. As for my personal life – it isdominated by books as well. I have recentlyjoined The Home Visits Service team inMerton Library and Heritage Service as avolunteer. (Some people would call me mad– I work in a library and volunteer in a libraryon my day off – but I just love books andpeople who read them). Because the serv-ice is run exclusively by volunteers, andnone of them works in a library, I decided tohelp with keeping the place in order – tidy-ing books regularly, making sure that booksare shelved in appropriate categories etc,and produced a list of websites useful forchoosing books for their customers. Thisway, I feel I can help the community bydoing what I do best and what gives megreat satisfaction.

I am lucky enough to have a job that Iabsolutely love, and also I work in a profes-sion that enables me to use my passion forbooks and reading to help others - I canonly repeat Thomas Jefferson who said “Icannot live without books”. Luckily, I don'tneed to!

Kate HalaburaSenior Library Assistant

Wandsworth [email protected]

‘Some people would call me mad - Iwork in a library and volunteer in a

library on my day off’


The Career Development Group is the only Group of CILIP which awards its ownHonorary Fellowship award to individuals who have rendered distinguished serviceto the group. New Honorary Fellows receive a certificate and are entitled to use the

postnominals Hon FCDG. They are also invited to the Presidential Reception each year.

Previous recipients have included Sue Hill (regular sponsor and loyal promoter of theGroup), Paula Younger (former Web Officer, Secretary and developer of the popularDeep Web course), Bob McKee (CILIP Chief Executive and former President of theGroup), Mandy Hicken (long time compiler of the Group’s publication Adult Sequels), KateWood (long term CILIP Liaison Officer for the Group), Dr. Mike Freeman (former Interna-tional Officer and long time supporter of our international projects) and Timothy Marshall(for services as the Group’s Journal Editor in the 1980s).

We are now seeking nominations from members for individuals whom they considersuitable for a Fellowship Award.

The criteria are:

1. Significant support for the Group enabling us to meet our aims and objectives.2. Evidence of their own continued professional development.3. Supporting the professional development of others.4. Helping the Group achieve its aims in the area of learning opportunities.5. Contributions to debate and professional developments by bringing about positive

changes, focusing on particular issues or campaigns.

The award will be given to one or more persons, at the discretion of the Hon FellowshipAwards Panel, who have offered exceptional and significant service to the CareerDevelopment Group. The Panel will consist of the Vice President, President and PastPresident. The President will make recommendations to the Career Development GroupNational Council in February 2010. The decision of Council will be final. The Panelreserves the right not to make an award if no suitable nomination is received.

Awards will be announced following Council and will be published in Impact and on theGroup’s website. In order to make your nomination, download the form fromhttp://www.cilip.org.uk/cdg, complete it and email or post it by 13th November to:

Amanda Quick, CDG Past President, 6 Clair Wood Place, Cupar, Fife KY15 [email protected]

Alternatively, blank nomination forms may be obtained on request from Amanda andreturned by email or post as above.

CDG Honorary Fellowship Award:Call for nominations


Whichever kind of library or informa-tion unit you are working within, ifyou have any form of public face

whatsoever, you will undoubtedly be asked(if you haven’t already) to carry out somekind of quality survey asking how well ‘hardto reach groups’ are using your services.

This situation is nothing new. Any kind ofpublicly accessible service dependent onpublic funding needs to provide equal ac-cess to those members of the public.

So far, so good, I doubt anyone will decrythe principle behind carrying out such sur-veys. The method, however, is open tomuch more active debate. In this short arti-cle I’d like to briefly discuss a survey I’verecently undertaken on behalf of the localinvolvement network (LINk) in Bradford,West Yorkshire, and what I learned from theprocess which may be useful for you whenyou’re called to test your services againstequality and diversity targets.

The background behind the survey can besummarised by saying that a hospital trustcarried out a survey last year and wasdisappointed by the quality and quantity offindings it received over their very generousfour month consultation period. BradfordLINks was asked to assist by repeating thesurvey process.

To begin this process I read the originalsurvey questions and spoke to some of the

people who had contributed, and more in-terestingly, failed to contribute to it.

Two major problems stood out head andshoulders above the others:

· Firstly, a number of ‘consultationevents’ were held, but these were eitherheld in the middle of the day – whenworking people could not attend - orelse held during the evening in venueswhich were either inaccessible or down-right dangerous to reach on foot, withno public transport links, meaning thatonly relatively affluent car owners couldattend.

· Secondly, the paper-based consultationquestionnaire, which accompanied theevents, was based on a very strictchoice. You could elect to choose be-tween three options, and if you wanteda mix of these options, or wanted tosuggest a different option, then therewas nowhere on the questionnaire toreflect this. As a result, many people feltthat their voice was not being heard,and binned the questionnaire ratherthan returning it.

As one person who had tried, and failed, tocontribute to the original questionnaire said:

Following these comments, I went on toredesign the questions so that they weremuch more general in nature, allowing con-tributors to be as imaginative as theywished. I found it really useful to write these

‘A librarian or a spaceman - eitheris equally unlikely here’

Focus on outreach: Surveys to engage with‘hard to reach’ groups

Daniel Park

“I want to tell people what I think,not what they think I should think”


questions with the active involvement of thepeople who had tried to contribute previous-ly, to ensure they were happy with the wayI had written out the questions, and alsowith the ‘easy read’ style which I purpose-fully adopted to ensure as many people aspossible could understand these questions.

The really big decision I took, however, wasin creating an ‘interview’ sheet rather than aquestionnaire. Having located the ‘hard toreach’ groups in the area with the help ofthe LINks team, we decided to visit thegroups directly in the places where theyregularly met, rather than holding an eventand finding that people could not attendeither due to the time, venue, or a feeling ofbeing uncomfortable outside an area theywere used to visiting regularly. The venueswe visited included homeless shelters,South East Asian women’s support groups,mental health support groups and refugeeand asylum seeker centres.

Reaction to us varied widely, but was gen-erally one of shock followed by greatamusement. It helped to tell people that Iwas a librarian - it was a great tool fordisarming individuals who were nervous ofpeople asking questions. As one man froma homeless shelter observed, “a librarian ora spaceman – either is equally unlikely inhere”.

The process of asking questions to individ-uals was slow and painstaking, but a greatdeal of qualitative information was generat-ed as a result, and people were really ap-preciative of being properly engaged andasked their views. I received a number ofcomments to this effect. The one that affect-ed me most came from a former asylumseeker, “Sometimes you don’t feel verybrave having to go places and answer

questions. Sometimes you feel like givingup. Having you come here and do the sameas I have had to do for all these months,without hiding behind a desk, has given methe courage to keep going”.

After an engagement process which lastedjust over a month, we had interviewed 100people and recently the views of individualsfrom these ‘hard to reach’ groups havebeen presented to the hospital trust in theform of a major report for them to consider.

The process was not a complete success.If I had the chance to do it over again, thenI would have spent more time finding all the‘hard to reach’ groups, as I only picked aselection that were easy to reach within thetime limit. I also would have made some ofthe questions less completely ‘open’, assome of the suggestions returned weresimply not realistic in terms of resources.Nevertheless, I think that two importantlearning points did come from this survey,and I think they have direct relevance to thelibrary and information sector.

Firstly, don’t ‘hide behind your desk’. Toaccess ‘hard to reach’ groups. It is impor-tant to talk to people who currently do notuse your services – and this means going tothem. Sometimes it can be difficult to arguethis to management, but libraries and infor-mation units have all the resources to findsupport centres and venues that thesegroups access.

Secondly, try and make your questionsopen. Perhaps not quite so open as I did(!)but certainly beyond a very strict series ofchoices. Trust people enough to give youtheir true thoughts on any subject, andyou’ll get a more truthful and sincere reply.

Daniel ParkInformation and Research Officer

Bradford LINks

‘Don’t ‘hide’ behind your desk’


The Career Development Group(CDG) has established a new net-work of support for our New Profes-

sional members. We define a NewProfessional as anyone who has enteredthe profession, either through work orstudy, within approximately the last 5 yrs.

The network, which has been runningsince January, is being coordinated atnational level by Christopher Rhodes, theCDG Honorary New Professionals Coordi-nator, and runs in most CDG divisions viaNew Professionals Support Officers(NPSOs), with plans to roll it out to alldivisions by the end of the year.

The first careers event run by the newNew Professional Support Officers wasorganised by the Yorkshire & HumbersideDivision. It successfully took place on 11thFebruary at Sheffield University, under thetitle ‘Tales from the Job Market’.

Nine speakers from different sectors of thelibrary and information profession - includ-ing public and academic libraries, informa-tion specialists and those still in academia -shared their experiences of work and apply-ing for jobs, including tips for students whowill start looking at job applications in thenext few months. Each speaker had a fiveto ten minute presentation on their experi-ences within the profession, before a finalQ&A session.

‘Tales from the Job Market’ gave new pro-fessionals a chance to network with otherprofessionals in the field, giving them useful

contacts for after the completion of theirMAs and, as many of the speakers werealumni of the University of Sheffield, it alsogave the students added confidence thatthey would in turn find jobs after graduation.The audience reaction was that the eventgave helpful insights and advice into the jobmarket and set a lot of unsure minds at rest

about their future in the profession.The running of the event was smooth andvery successful due to the forward planningof the Yorkshire & Humberside NPSOs giv-ing both their time and energy to this causeover the previous five months. The informalatmosphere of the evening contributed to itssuccess as speakers were openly availableto approach for those who had more specif-ic questions and all gave their time readilyat the promise of a free drink at the end ofthe evening.

In the past few months there has also beena lot of activity at national level on the NewProfessionals’ front. CDG, in associationwith the Diversity Group - one of the

The Career Development Group Networkfor New Professionals

Laura Ashford & Maria Cotera


smallest, but more active groups amongCILIP’s Special Interest Groups – and theDepartment of Applied and Social Sciencesat London Metropolitan University (as partof their consultation for the Library Skills fora Globalised World Project, funded by theLinking London Lifelong Learning Network)organised a highly successful one dayconference which ran in London in July.

This Conference was not only unique be-cause of the diverse backgrounds and per-spectives of the organisers but, moreimportantly, because it offered the first everopportunity for LIS New Professionals to betruly protagonists of the day; by writing andpresenting their own papers, delivering theirpersonal views to their peers, asking ques-tions, and sharing their knowledge, techni-cal skills and passion for the profession.

The call for conference proposals attracted28 papers from New Professionals in theUK and internationally; after peer-review,ten papers (all by first time presenters) wereselected to be included in the final pro-gramme, titled ‘What is it like to be a Library& Information Professional in the 21st Cen-tury? Forum and Debate from a New Pro-fessionals’ Perspective’.

After a really good introductory paper fromKatie Hill on the consumer generation andhow it is changing the library and informa-tion profession, the debate really took offduring the rest of the day, which was divid-ed into three segments - Meeting the Chal-lenges, Marketing Ourselves and CareerProfiles – each segment featuring threespeakers, plus one very lively virtual contri-bution, followed by a panel discussion withquestions from the floor.

The emerging themes throughout the daywere marketing ourselves (Jo Alcock),managing the expectations of what we canprovide and proving our value (KathAitken), the social contribution librariansmake to society (Lydia Major) and the skillsnew professionals bring to the workplace(Emma Illingworth & Sarah Ison).

There was also lots of talk about socialmedia and new technologies (Jo Al-cock, Nicolas Robison) and about theneed to stop perpetuating thelibrarian’s stereotype myth - there is anew generation of dynamic and inter-esting professionals already here. NedPotter’s paper injected a great spiritinto the audience, and the message tohis peers was clear: let’s prove it! …Perhaps that’s why he won the £100cheque and the bottle of champagneawarded to the best paper, generouslydonated by Sue Hill Recruitment?!

The Conference attracted a huge inter-est from delegates, bringing togetheraround 100 new professionals who dis-cussed their vision of the 21st century li-brary and information professional and,interestingly, also a few non-new profes-sionals who also felt the need to be there tofind out what the new professionals had tosay.


The whole day provided a fresh perspectiveon the profession as well as an amazinglearning experience for everyone involved:the delegates, the presenters themselves,the chairs of the panels, the London Metro-politan LIS students who worked as helperson the day, and last by not least, the confer-ence organisers; so much so that some ofus left feeling really inspired and keen toorganise another New Professionals Con-ference for next year.

However, support for our new professionalmembers has not finished there: CDG hasalso fully sponsored a new professional toattend Umbrella, CILIP’s National Confer-ence. 13 applications, all of high quality,were received. The winner was Eleni Zaza-ni, who since then has already shown greatenthusiasm and commitment to her profes-sional development and to CDG by takingup an officer’s position within her local divi-sional committee.

We firmly believe that, by investing in ournew professional members, the Group isalso investing in its own future; as such, weare planning to support more new profes-sionals with grants to attend professionaldevelopment events, both at national anddivisional level, and will keep you posted asand when new opportunities become avail-able.

And while on the issue of professional de-velopment, we would like to stress thatbecoming a New Professional Support Of-ficer and working as part of a CDG division-al committee in your region is one of thebest development opportunities one cangrab – not only will you be able to networkwith and learn from other like-minded pro-

fessionals in different sectors and at differ-ent stages of their careers, but there is alsoaccess to exclusive (and free) training op-portunities, including a new one-day eventfor New Professional Support Officersaround the country, being developed byCILIP’s Membership Support Unit, in liaisonwith CDG. The programme is currently be-ing finalised, with the event taking placesometime between 26th October and 5thNovember. This training day will prepareour New Professional Support Officers toassist CILIP in the roll out of the popularGraduate Day around the country. The ex-citing idea is to hold Graduate Days in fourcities outside London, including Manches-ter and Sheffield, from February to April2010. Do you want to be part of it?

For further information about the New Pro-fessionals Network and activities, and a listof contacts in your area go to our website:http://www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/careerdevelopment/whatwedo/newprofessionals.htm

If you are interested in New ProfessionalSupport Officers’ opportunities in your re-gion, or any other New Professional relatedqueries, please contact the New Profes-sionals Co-ordinator Chris Rhodes:[email protected] or the Career De-velopment Group President, Maria Cotera:[email protected]

Laura Ashford MA Librarianship Student and

New Professional Support OfficerYorkshire & Humberside Division

Maria CoteraRetrospective Cataloguer

University College London andPresident

Career Development Group

‘There is a new generation ofdynamic and interesting

professionals already here’


Unusual libraries: The Queen Mary 2Sara Weintraub

In June my family decided to take theunprecedented step of going on a trans-atlantic cruise, from New York to the UK.

When the day finally came, we boarded theQueen Mary 2 for our trip.

Obviously as a librarian I had to look overthe library facilities on board and there wasa large computer centre and library for pas-sengers. The library contained over 8,000books on subjects of all kinds, both fictionand non-fiction, including large print edi-tions. It was very big and luxurious, withcomputers and space to sit down on couch-es and to browse magazines and books. Inoted how the books in the library weregenerally the latest editions and I evenborrowed a book that was brand new andhot off the press.

The bookshop was adjacent to the libraryand contained a wide variety of books ongeneral subjects, travel,shipping and QueenMary 2 memorabilia.There seemed to be nodedicated librarians forthe library and insteadthe bookshop staffseemed to man the li-brary as well. They werevery helpful althoughmore people were prob-

ably buying books than using the library asyou could only borrow two library books ata time.

The ‘cultural enrichment programme’ on-board was free and I attended lecturesranging from the history of cruising and theTitanic story to a brief tour through thehistory of art. I attended workshops onShakespeare from RADA, representativesof which were on board and there were twoplays performed. There was also an author,Amy Bloom on board giving advice aboutbecoming a reader and becoming a writer,and there was a book group, discussingbooks by this author.

For those intending to learn more aboutcomputing, there was a whole programmeof computer courses ranging from hands oncourses for Absolute beginners to demon-strations of Photoshop and Word, Excel

and PowerPoint, all free.These all took place forone hour slots on differ-ent days in the ComputerLearning Centre.

Sara WeintraubJoint EventsCoordinator

CDG London andSouth East Divisions

The QM2 is:· 147 feet longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall (984 ft.)· More than 3½ times as long as Big Ben is high (310 ft.)· More than three times as long as St. Paul's Cathedral is tall (366 ft.)· As long as 41 double-decker London buses (31½ ft. each)

It has 14 decks and a 3,056 maximum capacity for guests, plus 1,253 crew (www.cunard.co.uk)


When I began my post in 2006 asmall programme of Local History(LH) class visits for Primary Fives

had been established by my job share part-ner. The schools visit either East KilbrideLibrary or St Leonard’s Library to attendtheir session. I commenced my post withthe understanding that delivering the LHprogramme would be one of the main de-velopmental tasks of my job. The pro-gramme initially covered two topics on “TheNew Town of East Kilbride” and “The OldVillage of East Kilbride” and I expanded thisby developing a new topic on “The HunterBrothers”. I believe our LH programme hashelped establish the link between LocalHistory and libraries and has done so in afun and accessible way for young people.

Personal DevelopmentThe process of CILIP chartership began mypractice of self evaluation. I benefited fromevaluative learning through writing up mytraining and identifying any skills gaps. Toinitially acquire LH skills and knowledge Idevised a personal training plan in partner-ship with my supervisor, this entailed:

· Tour of LH archives by my J/S partner· Personal Research on LH resources

in library collection· Personal study of current LH presen-

tations and archives· Shadowing J/S partner and assist at

LH talks to build up confidence· Achieve ECDL modules via SLC train-

ing course, becoming skilled at Micro-soft PowerPoint in order to develop LHpresentations.

· Delivering LH talks unaided, with feed-back given from J/S partner

By shadowing my job share partner and byconducting research I soon gained theskills and confidence to present topics.One particular exercise which helped meimprove presentation skills was asking myJ/S partner for feedback on my personalperformance. I used a brief questionnairefor the purpose. I was then able to imple-ment changes to my style and also to theformat of my LH presentations by usingmore interactive Q and A sessions.

Developing projects: CPD whilst you workZen Mumford

IntroductionAs a fairly recent graduate I am in my first professional post as Librarian (InformationServices) at East Kilbride Public Library. Though the term Information Services is inten-tionally very broad, in essence I cover all Reference and Information Enquiries via thefrontline Enquiry desk or via email/ phone queries. I normally spend half of my time serv-ing the public with the other half devoted to pro-active development tasks. I specificallydevelop and implement reference, local history and family history services.

St Leonard’s Primary children try out the microfilmmachines. Picture courtesy of East Kilbride News


‘I benefited from evaluative learningthrough writing up my training and

identifying any skills gaps’

As the LH project developed I was able toadd my own creative ideas to it through theslideshow visuals. I partly chose “The Hunt-er Brothers” topic for its great gory subjectmatter from 18th century instruments ofmedical torture through to John Hunter’sbizarre experiments to reanimate the dead!All of which proved very popular with prima-ry school children.

Local History ProgrammeFrom a consultation across local schoolsand with input from the Literacy Develop-ment Co-ordinator the topics were selectedto target a Primary Five level audience. Thesessions are currently offered to all 23 EastKilbride Primary Schools via annual book-ing forms; schools indicate the desired topicand date. The topics are researched anddelivered by myself or my J/S partner aspart of our remit to improve LH serviceswithin the post of Information Services Li-brarian. The material is presented as aMicrosoft PowerPoint slideshow, with relat-ed source maps and books from our LHarchive. After each talk there is a work-sheet to complete and a Q&A session.

EvaluationThe programme is evaluated by feedbackforms completed by teachers after eachsession. At the end of the school year I writeup a report evaluating the programme usingthe feedback data and comments. This re-port is submitted to the Literacy Develop-ment co-ordinator and the results inform thenext year’s service aims.

Development2007: I expanded our range of topics toinclude a third presentation on “The HunterBrothers”.

2008: To develop the project further I liaisedwith my J/S partner and the Literacy Devel-opment Co-ordinator to define the followingaims for the LH programme:

· Utilise our Local History resources for ayounger audience

· Stimulate an interest in the history ofthe local area and its current relevancefrom an early age

· Consolidate the connection betweenschool work and public libraries

· Widen knowledge and experience ofthe different types of reference resourc-es available, especially in the internetage

· Expand understanding of the role ofpublic libraries beyond book lending toits role as guardian of local archives

· Expand on the current programme ofP5 library class visits undertaken by thechildren’s assistants

In 2008 we diversified and became moreresponsive to the demands from schools forrelevant topics. We were approached byHeatheryknowe Primary school to provideresources on the history of their school. Iput together a range of reference resourcesusing East Kilbride committee papers, pho-tocopies from our newspaper archive ofEast Kilbride News and LH referencebooks. To make the resources easy to useI tagged them with simple labels such as‘Local Newspapers’, ‘Reference books’ etc.I saw the session as a great opportunity toillustrate to children the range and the spe-cific differences between reference re-sources.

This one off session paved the way foranother specialised project with anotherprimary school. St Leonards Primary wasplanning a week of activities to celebratethe 40 year anniversary of its opening so wewere approached to run some local history


sessions. By liasing with the teachers wedeveloped a series of sessions looking ateach changing decade in East Kilbride his-tory since the school opened. We planned5 sessions on 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s and2000s. In consultation with the teachers thesessions were tailored to a range of agegroups from P5s to P7s. To lend focus tothe project we limited the reference re-sources used to the East Kilbride newsarchive and library books. I created simplelabels to organise the articles into SocialHistory, Adverts, Entertainments, Fashionand School History.

Service PerformanceThis series of LH sessions were document-ed in the local paper ‘East Kilbride News’with photos of the classes visiting the libraryreference archives. I see this as a greatvisual way to promote the resources weoffer to a wider audience.

There were many positive outcomes fromthe project:

· The project was an opportunity for chil-dren to access direct sources ratherthan through a slide presentation

· It was an example of how we could usethe East Kilbride News archive activelyin LH services

· The article and photos taken whichappeared in the East Kilbride Newswere able to publicise the resource to awider audience

· We received positive teacher feed-back, including comments such as:

� The success illustrated the fact thatchildren could be engaged with LHarchives, generating excitement

Future DevelopmentAlthough the St Leonards programme wasvery involved and specific there were bene-fits which could be applied to future LHtopics for schools. Learning from this modelwe are now considering how to use our LHcollections in a similar way to develop anew topic on the East Kilbride News Ar-chives. We can also improve our currentprogramme of LH talks to include directhands on Archive sessions to complementthe slideshow format. Another idea is to useitems or props from the local museums forpeople to handle during each session. At-tending training at the 2008 South Lanark-shire Libraries Staff Development Dayincreased my awareness of how LH re-sources could be used in future. Materialscan be uploaded to a central online reposi-tory which can be shared by schools acrossScotland.

I continue to evaluate the needs of theaudience through teacher feedback formsand liaison with local schools. As well ashelping my service to find new ways ofpresenting LH topics to young people I wasable to expand my own range of skills toimprove my presentation techniques andLH knowledge. The LH programme hasgiven me a great opportunity to demon-strate my own personality through creatinga new topic and through using news ar-chives. This in turn has stimulated manyideas for future development.

Zen MumfordLibrarian (Information Services)

East Kilbride Public Library

“The children enjoyed the visit andcompleted a lot of research. Usingarchive material was a new experi-ence for them. Advance preparation

by the librarians made the visit arewarding experience”


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