Minutes of the cpd25 Quality Standards and Legal Frameworks Task Group 2

30th July 2009

Room 624, Malet Street Building, Birkbeck College

In attendance:

Robert Atkinson (Chair), Lise Foster, Claire Hackshall (Administrator), Ruth Harrison, Matthew Lawson, Kristy Widdicombe.

1. Apologies

Louise Hughes, Vicky Robertson. 

1. Minutes of the last meeting

1.1 The Task Group wanted a note to be made that the group size for the next visit to the British Film Institute Library needs to be less than 30 people, as the venue is quite small.

1.2 KW requested that it was recorded that the visit to the Tate Library and Archives went well.

2. Report on the cpd25 Steering Group meeting held on the 15th May 2009

RA reported back to the TG on the details of the above meeting and was delighted to announce that KW had won the cpd25 Travel Award for 2009.

3. Recent Events

ML reported that the visit to the Society of Antiquaries has been moved to the Autumn.

4. Future Events

4.1 Contract and Supplier Management

LF reported back to the Group that the plans for this event were going well and that it would be taking place in November. This would be a full day, with one part of the day concentrating on negotiating and networking experiences and the other part looking at supplier and consortia issues. The quote that LF and LH have been given includes trainer costs and venue hire and seems reasonable.

4.2 Managing Management Information

ML reported that with starting his new job he hadn’t been able to work on this event for a while. The Group discussed the event and felt that it should cover the interpretation of statistics and that it should be interactive, perhaps with delegates supplying statistics beforehand. It was agreed that this event would be useful for user feedback statistics.  ML said that he needed to identify a suitable person for the interactive part and a discussion took place on this. A date would be confirmed once the details of the day have been explored. RH agreed to help with the organising of this event.

5. Possible Future Events

RA and LF agreed to organise an event on employment law, to include part-time working and flexible contracts. The Group suggested a possible name to help them with this. The date would be confirmed once some investigation has been carried out.

LF agreed to investigate quality standards/chartermark/IIP, in order to run these topics as part of a larger event with a customer service focus.

KW agreed to arrange an event on supporting students diagnosed with mental health difficulties and gave the Group some information on this. It is envisaged that this will be a half-day event and that it will take place during the autumn term. A discussion took place regarding possible speakers for this.

KW agreed to investigate a possible event on assisted technology and report back to the Group on this. The event could be run in the Spring.

RH and ML agreed to organise an event/s on copyright in practice and the Group discussed subject areas and ideas for this, including the need to make it/them interactive and not just a series of talks. Dates would be confirmed once some investigation has been carried out.

6. Possible Future Visits

ML reported that the visit to the Society of Antiquaries will be taking place in the Autumn. It has provisionally been booked for 13 October, but it might be moved to November, as library staff tend to be very busy during October. ML agreed to confirm this date to CH when he knows more on this.

RH agreed to organise a visit to the Horniman Museum, a new member of the M25 Consortium. CH agreed to send RH the contact person details for this. 

KW agreed to investigate a visit to the Tate [subsequent to the meeting however CH found out that two other Task Groups are arranging art visits to: a) The Tate and b) the National] .

ML and KW agreed to organise a visit to the British Film Institute Library.

RA agreed to organise a visit to the London Library.

RA agreed to organise a visit to Wandsworth Prison.

ML agreed to investigate a visit to the Law Society in November.

RA agreed to investigate a visit to one of the Inns of Court.

LF agreed to investigate a library architecture visit.

LF and RH agreed to investigate a visit to Imperial’s Library in November or December.

7. AOB

N/A

8. Date of Next Meeting

It was agreed that the next meeting would be in early November, with a short follow-up meeting and Task Group lunch in December. RA agreed to circulate possible dates for these and RH agreed to look into booking a meeting room at Imperial for the November meeting.