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CILIP goes RSS

..or tries to. There's a press release sent to the lis-cilip list, but the page that's supposed to give details of the feeds gets this:
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CILIP Council endorses Health Executive Advisory Group report

CILIP council endorsed the Health Executive Advisory Group report Future Proofing the Profession:

• press release
• the report itself

This is very good. The only fraternal criticism I'd offer is that the tone, especially of the title, could be read as rather defensive. I, and others, are looking at some work done in the US by the Association of Academic Health Science Libraries on Charting the Future

CILIP Election

Postscript: the results are now up: CILIP | Annual Election 2005.
21% turnout seems to me quite good. I think, though I'm open to contradiction, that this is higher than usual, and pretty good when compared to turn-outs in comprable professional bodies. I may stand myself next year, on an armed struggle now platform to make things a little more exciting.

CILIP Presidential election result

Nothing on the CILIP web site yet, but I hear unofficially that Bruce Madge lost, by 34 votes. A shame, he would have made a very good president, especially with his non-standard (that is not public/academic library) background, his involvement with informatics, MLA and IFLA. I hope he stands again.

Transcript of CILIP oral evidence now up

The uncorrected version of the transcript of oral evidence given the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Inquiry into Public Libraries by CILIP, the Audit Commission and the Advisory Council on Libraries is now up on the Committee's web site.

CILIP tells MPs what's what

Press release from CILIP on their evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into public libraries.
I see it took place in the Thatcher room: a subtle revenge on that enemy of knowledge and culture.
And away with the knee breeches and secrecy: CILIP have had permission for the Clerk of the Committee to publish their evidence.
(This was controversial during the sessions of the Science and Technology Committee's Inquiry into Scientific Publications: some who gave evidence were happy to publish it on the web, others, including CILIP, feared it might be a breach of privilege and that they would be sent to the Tower by way of Traitor's Gate).

CILIP Annual Election 2005

Further to an earlier post, the election candidates' manifestos (though not photos, which might look better on the screen than in print) are now on the CILIP website. Thanks to Alan Cooper of the CILIP web team for alerting me to this.
Bruce Madge is my favoured presidential candidate.

CILIP election manifestos

My voting papers have arrived for the annual election of  CILIP's President-elect and national councillors. I and all other right-thinking people will be voting early and often for Bruce Madge as president-elect
Most of the candidates have provided photographs, but these have been miserably reproduced. If I were one of the candidates I would be livid. No chance of seeing them on the web either, as http://www.cilip.org.uk/election doesn't work.
I suppose it matters little what they look like, but if they go to the trouble to submit a photograph, it seems rather unprofessional to reproduce it in such a slovenly way.