CILIP changes

Published by Audrey Marshall | Filed under Announcements

From the beginning of 2008, it’s all change at CILIP and a lot of change with my own involvement with CILIP. There is a new CILIP Council, as part of the new governannce structure, and the changes recommended by the New Business Model Working Group will start to bite. As a member of the New Business Model Working Group, I have been involved over the last 18 months in some heated discussions about the future of CILIP and been party to some difficult decisions. It was hard work, but if it means that CILIP’s future is secure for a number of years yet, then extremely worthwhile. I have also been South East Branch Councillor since 2003, which meant representing the SE Branch interests on Council. But, no longer. The new Council is leaner and fitter - 12 trustees, elected nationally, and the hope is that this new streamlined Council will be more flexible and responsive to the world in which we now operate. You can see who was elected on to Council on the CILIP website. Policy, meanwhile, will be debated and decided by means of a Policy Forum, consisting of representatives of Branches and Special Interest Groups. The hope with the Policy Forum is that it will not duplicate the old Council but will use innovative techniques to involve representatives from the grass-roots organisation in order to make meaningful decisions about pertinent policy issues. I’m still very much active in the SE Branch and its Sussex sub-branch, the voice of CILIP locally. I plan to be involved in the Policy Forum and to continue to get students and former students involved in CILIP in Sussex and the South East.