The document outlines opportunities for libraries and information professionals in the near future, including opportunities for learning, equality, celebrating older populations, creating jobs, and connecting society through trust, privacy and safety. It discusses priorities like supporting members, having an influential national voice for the profession, helping people build careers in libraries and information management, and working with partners to further common interests. The overall goals are to ensure every person has access to libraries and the chance to read, learn, and build skills through library resources and professionals.

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

4. Beautiful places

5. Creative ideas

6. http://www.ned-potter.com/blog/visiting-libraries-is-the-most-popular-activity-in-the-uk-spread-these-resources-far-and-wide
Engaged customers

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

12. An inclusive profession
Librarianship
Information
Management
Information
Literacy
Learning

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

14. National Libraries Day – 6th February 2016

16. www.cilip.org.uk/strategy2020