The CILIP Information Literacy Project Board was launched in 2010 to establish CILIP as a key stakeholder in information literacy. The board aims to integrate information literacy into CILIP's activities and partner with other organizations. A 2013 survey found 89% of CILIP members outside academia see information literacy as important. The board's achievements include hosting summits, issuing press statements on literacy issues, and endorsing the Alexandria Proclamation on information literacy. Moving forward, the board plans roundtables on e-safety and literacy in the workplace to inform new policy statements and resources.

1. The Policy Work of CILIP’s
Information Literacy Project
Board
What use is policy to
me?
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2. The IL Project launched in
2010
• Copyright NASA 2011
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. How many Policy statements
does CILIP have?
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14. “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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15. Contact details
Jacqueline May
Policy Officer
CILIP Policy Team
jacqueline.may@cilip.org.uk
020 7255 0624
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