Shape the Future - developing CILIP's Strategy to 2020
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3. The near future...
• Opportunities to read & learn
• Equality of opportunity
• Celebrating an aging population
• Creating jobs
• A mature connected society – trust, authority, privacy & safety
7. “To be librarian or
information professional
is to be someone who
believes that they can
change the world
through knowledge”
R.D Lankes
CILIP Conference
8. “CILIP’s purpose is to
unite, represent and
grow the library and
information profession”
9. What do we want?
1. Every boy & girl has the opportunity to read, develop their information literacy
and critical thinking skills
2. Every school with a library and a library and information professional at its heart
3. Every community supported by & benefitting from the skills of a library &
information professional
4. Every business investing in the skills to value and managing knowledge &
information as an asset
5. Every University, enterprise, charity, hospital or organisation with the skills to
create, manage and re-use knowledge and information to benefit their users
13. Core priorities
• Supporting, nurturing & celebrating our membership
• Providing an effective & influential national voice for our profession
• Helping people plan & build their career in libraries & information
management
• Working in partnership to further our common interests