Shape the Future is an open, collaborative project to develop CILIP’s strategy to 2020. The consultation phase of the project closed in December 2016 and the staff, Board and Presidential Team at CILIP would like to offer their thanks to the hundreds of people that took the time to share their thoughts and ideas with us.

4. CILIP’s objective for 2020 is to put library and information
skills at the heart of a democratic, equal and prosperous
Information Society
We will develop a set of social, economic, cultural, creative,
educational and scientific outcomes and metrics to
demonstrate our progress toward this objective

5. CILIP’s Charitable Purpose (Royal Charter, 2014)
To work for the benefit of the public to promote education
and knowledge through the establishment and development
of libraries and information services and to advance
information science (being the science and practice of the
collection, collation, evaluation and organised dissemination
of information).

6. Active citizens
who can
create,
manage, use,
safeguard and
share
knowledge &
information
Information
Society &
Knowledge
Economy
In public
services
For learning
Qualified
professionals
Non-qualified
professionals
Professional
association
for library,
information
& knowledge
workers
Social
Cultural
Educational
Economic
Personal
Benefits
Impact and
outcomes
At home
At work
In business
For Government
UNITES, ADVOCATES
& DEVELOPS
WHO TRANSFORM SERVICES TO DELIVER VALUE FOR WHO ARE PART OF WHICH BENEFITS FROM

7. Our 4 priorities:
• Advocating for library & information skills & professional ethics
• Developing the library and information workforce for the future
• Delivering excellent member services
• Investing in innovation, standards and improvement

8. Our 6 enablers:
• Striving for equality and diversity in everything we do
• A modern, digital-by-default professional association
• Securing our future through an open, ethical business model
• Investing in a positive, healthy working culture
• Maintaining our commitment to partnership & collaboration
• Being an organisation that engages, listens and learns

9. Advocating for &
providing evidence of
the value and impact of
library and information
skills in the public,
private & 3rd sectors.

10. Our scope (13,000 members, UK-wide...)
Consulting/independent information professionals Prison
Further Education/Colleges Public
Government and Armed Forces Research
Health Care School
Social Care Special Collections
Higher Education (including LIS teaching staff) Industry (Extraction)*
Law Industry (Manufacturing)**
Museums, Archives, Galleries and Heritage Industry (Commercial Services)***
National Libraries Not working****
Not for profit/3rd sector/Charity Other
* Any extraction industries, for example: Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, Mining, Quarrying
** Any Manufacturing industries, for example: Pharmaceutical, Aerospace, Automotive
*** Any commercial service industries: Business, Finance, Communications, Hospitality, Retail
**** Unemployed/Retired/Full-time Student/Career Break

11. CILIP Sectors Special Interest Groups - Sector Specific
Special Interest Groups – Cross cutting
themes/specialisms
Network
Nations/
Regions
Career
stage
Government and Armed
forces
Government Information Group
CataloguingandIndexingGroup
Community,DiversityandEqualityGroup
InformationLiteracyGroup
InformationServicesGroup
InternationalLibraryandInformationGroup
LibraryandInformationHistoryGroup
LibraryandInformationResearchGroup
MultimediaInformationandTechnologyGroup
PublicityandPublicRelationsGroup
UKeInformationGroup
RegionalMemberNetworksacrossEnglandandScottishBranches
CILIPinIreland,CILIPinScotland,CILIPinWales
RetiredMembersGuild
Health Care
Health Libraries Group
Social Care
Consulting/Independent
Information Professional
Commercial, Legal and
Scientific Information
Group
Patent and
Trademark Group
Industry (Extraction)
Industry (Manufacturing)
Industry (Commercial
Services)
Law
Not for Profit/Third
Sector/Charity
Prison Prison Libraries Group
Special Collections
Rare Books
and Special
Collections
Group
Local
Studies
Group
Museums, Archives, Galleries
and Heritage
Public
Public and
Mobile
Libraries
Group
Youth
Librarie
s
GroupSchool
School Libraries
Group
Further Education
Academic and
Research Libraries
Group
Higher Education (inc LIS
teaching staff)
Rare Books
and Special
Collections
Group
National Libraries
Research
Not working
Other

12. Professional values:
1. Public good
2. Reputation of the information profession
3. Defence & advancement of access to information
4. Best possible service within available resources
5. Balancing needs of users and employers
6. Equitable treatment of all information users
7. Impartiality & the avoidance of bias
8. Respect for confidentiality and privacy
9. Conservation and preservation of information heritage
10. Respect for the integrity of information
11. Improving professional knowledge & skills
12. Respect for the skills of others

13. Business objectives:
• CILIP has set the objective to achieve 5-10% annual growth in
revenues over the next 4 years, while maintaining growth in
expenditure at between 2-3%
• Generating revenues on a full-cost recovery basis;
• Maintaining a positive balance of income over expenditure;
• Investing surpluses in a balanced-risk portfolio;
• Maintaining the schedule of contributions to the defined-benefit
pension scheme
• Maintaining a positive cashflow
• Making active use of reserves to support business development

14. CILIP’s objective for 2020 is to put library and information
skills at the heart of a democratic, equal and prosperous
Information Society

15. Next steps
• Draft Action Plan 2016-2020 reviewed by CILIP Board Jan 2016
• Draft Action Plan 2016-2020 published for comment to March
18th
• Final Action Plan 2016-2020 signed off by Board April 2016
• Action Plan in place from April 2016