| 27th January 2010 |
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Minutes of cpd25 Task Group 2: Quality Standards and Legal Frameworks 10.30am, 27th January 2010
In attendance: Robert Atkinson, Claire Hackshall, Louise Hughes, Matthew Lawson, Anne Pietsch, Vicky Robertson, Kristy Widdicombe.
1. Apologies Lise Foster, Ruth Harrison.
2. Membership of the Group Anne Pietsch was welcomed and introduced to the Group.
3. Minutes of the last meeting Accepted as an accurate record.
4. Report from the cpd25 Steering Group meeting held on 25th November 2009 RA reported back to the Task Group the details of the above meeting.
5. Review of current training events
5.1 Contract and Supply Management LH reported that she has organised the negotiating skills part of this course and is waiting to hear back from LF regarding the other part. LH confirmed that they hoped to be able to set a date for this event very soon.
5.2 Employment Law RA reported that 15th April has now been set as the date for this event. A venue would be booked as soon as he has more details from the trainer e.g. the number of delegates that he can take, and that he would be meeting him shortly to do this. RA mentioned that he needed to obtain copies of contracts for specific types of jobs and that this was proving difficult.
5.3 Basic Copyright ML reported that he had met with RH recently in order to progress this event and would be doing again very soon.
5.4 Managing Management Information ML explained that this course was aimed at understanding statistics, how they are collated and co-ordinated and how they are used. Programme plans were progressing well and ML was given the name of a possible speaker for this event by a member of the Group.
5.5 Quality Standards It was reported that some possible speakers for this event were currently being approached and the Group also suggested another possible speaker’s name.
5.6 Making Libraries More Accessible: Supporting Students with Mental Health Difficulties) KW reported that this event was set to take place on 19th March and that she was currently trying to get someone from the Samaritans to come along and speak at this.
5.7 Assistive Technology KW passed on the organising of this event to AP and VR, with the aim of running it in the Summer.
6. Review of visits
6.1 RH wasn’t able to attend the meeting and so an update on this visit wasn’t available.
6.2 Tate Gallery KW reported that this visit has been organised for 12th March and that it would be advertised very soon.
6.3 Society of Antiquaries ML confirmed that this visit went ahead on 8th December and that it was well attended and went very well.
6.4 BFI ML confirmed that this visit has been organised for 5th May.
6.5 RA reported that he was very optimistic that this visit would be able to take place and was currently investigating this.
6.6 A LH reported that it was now more likely to be a visit to either Wormwood Scrubs or Pentonville Library in May, rather than Wandsworth Prison and that it looked likely that two visits could be organised with six people in each group. She hoped to have further details on these shortly.
6.7 The Law Society ML reported that the Law Society had told him that they were not open to visits from outside people and so this visit would have to be taken off the programme.
6.8 RA reported that this visit was taking place on 4th February and that it was fully booked.
6.9 Library and VR reported that the date for this visit has been set for 22nd March.
6.10 Imperial RH wasn’t able to attend the meeting and so an update on this visit wasn’t available.
7. Any other business
7.1 VR suggested that it might be a good idea to have a central cpd25 Excel sheet giving the details of trainers that are used regularly. RA agreed to mention this idea at the next Steering Group Meeting.
7.2 AP said that a visit to a political party, NGO or a ‘think-tank’ library would be very interesting for library staff and that she would carry out some research into this.
8. Date of next meeting It was agreed that the group would next meet on Thursday, 29th April 2010 at 2.30pm and that RA would book a meeting room at Birkbeck for this.
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