Meeting of Career Development Group at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 3rd June 2003 2pm to 4pm

Present:

David Gee (Chair), Janet Westcott, Elspeth Keith, Diana Herman, Antony Loveland, Chris Launder and Caroline Holebrook

Vivien Robertson & Cathy Parr

2. Welcome to new members

David welcomed Chris Launder from the Courtauld Institute and Antony Loveland from the University of London.

3. Chartership & Seminar Programme 2003/2004

Proposed programme for the Chartership Workshop programme 2003/2004

The group aim to offer nine two-hour workshops for Route "A" Chartership candidates. These will be usually scheduled from 4.00pm to 6.00pm on a Wednesday afternoon. David will ask Jean Yeoh if we can have money for drinks for the first and last workshops. ACTION: David to contact Jean Yeoh re: drinks money.

OCTOBER 2003: Chartership: what's it about?(Co-ordinator: Antony Loveland)
Location: University of London Library Training Room Speaker: Susan Kay? (CILIP) Start of programme after-session drinks

NOVEMBER 2003: Collection Development (Including electronic materials) (Co-ordinator: Vivien Robertson)
Location: King's College? Speaker: Astrid Wissenberg

DECEMBER 2003: Copyright law or Disability discrimination law (Co-ordinator: Antony Loveland)
Location: University of London Library Training Room Speaker:

JANUARY 2004: Selling yourself (includes interview techniques) (Co-ordinator: Janet Westcott)
Location: SOAS? Speaker: Keith Webster?

FEBRUARY 2004: Financial Planning and budgets (Co-ordinator: David Gee)
Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies? Speaker: Jules Winterton?

MARCH 2004: Presentation and teaching skills (Co-ordinator: Chris Launder)
Location: St George's Medical School Library? Speakers: Sue David and colleagues?

APRIL 2004 (avoiding Easter): Supervisory skills (Co-ordinator: David Gee)
Location: University College? Speaker: Judith Cattermole?

MAY 2004: Customer care (Co-ordinator: Diana Herman)
Location: Speaker:

JUNE 2004: Current issue (Co-ordinator: Elspeth Keith)
Location: Liz Davies (Imperial College)? Speaker: Camden Campus of the Royal Veterinary College? End of programme after-session drinks

Proposed programme for the Seminar Programme 2003/2004

The group agreed to offer four seminar events.

Applying to Study LIS (Library and Information Services)
It was agreed that the cohort of graduate trainees that make up the audience for this event was consistent. This sessions bookings had reached 30 delegates so the group felt it was well worth running the event again. However, there is no restriction on the types of staff who may wish to attend. Anyone with an interest in making an application to study LIS will be very welcome.

Chris Launder will convene this event. The group decided that Chartership candidates should be encouraged to get involved with organising events.

This event will be held in October 2003

Action: Caroline to find Chris a Chartership partner.

Enriching your graduate trainee year.
As with the LIS seminar the group felt that this event was worth running. The event will be aimed at graduate trainees but again library assistants can fill any surplus places.

Diana Herman will convene this event.

This event will be held in November 2003

Career Pathways
This event is a reprise of this year's successful event that is aimed at non-graduate library assistants. This time the remit will be wider and will look at other forms of non-graduate, non-traditional routes to career development that result in a qualification. As before the event will look at NVQ's and City & Guilds courses. New aspects will include the ECDL programme and the Distance Learning programmes offered by Aberystwyth among others.

Janet Westcott & Elspeth Keith will convene this event.

This event will be held in February 2004

Staff Development Projects
Aimed at staff development officers in the first instance, the event will include sessions on Personal Development Plans, summarising competencies, evaluating training benefits etc. Janet Westcott & Diana Herman will convene this event.

This event will be held in March 2004

These four events will comprise the main programme. An additional event was discussed.

Staff Development Officers Event
A reprise of the successful event held in April 2003. However, the format will be very different. We hope to have discussion groups covering the pro's and con's of the post, what can be achieved, what can't. We hope to use the feedback to create a sharing of experience and best practice. The group decided that some extra help would be needed. Caroline would try to find a willing partner to "co-opt" to the group for this single event. It was also clear we would need a strong facilitator/chair figure.

Event to be convened by David Gee + others.

To be held in April/May 2004 - again possibly part of cpd25 review session. ACTION: Caroline to find a co-opt member.

Proposed visit programme for 2003/2004

FEBRUARY 2004: Courtauld Institute of Art Library x 2 visits
(Co-ordinator: Chris Launder)

JULY 2004: Open University - new library x 2visits
(Co-ordinator: Janet Westcott)

The group agreed to try to get provisional dates by July where possible.

4. Any other business

Caroline was able to confirm that a web re-design of the CPD25 pages would be happening over the summer. The aim was to have a much slicker and more interactive site. The site will offer much more functionality such as online booking forms and links to event details.

5. Date of next meeting

None as yet - maybe in September if required.