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Minutes of the cpd25 Steering Group 16th July 2009, 2.30pm
LSE Library
In attendance: Helen Alper, David Gee, Claire Hackshall (Administrator), Mary Nixon (Chair), Catherine Phillpotts.
1. Apologies: Robert Atkinson, Judith Cattermole.
2. Minutes of the previous meeting: Accepted as an accurate record.
3. Matters arising: N/A
4. Financial update: 4.1 CH reported that, overall, cpd25 will make a small surplus on the events programme. 4.2 MN reported that the cpd25 bank account will be transferred later this year to HSBC, the bank that the M25 Consortium use. A meeting will be held in August to discuss the arrangements for this. 4.3 MN told the SG that she thought it likely that there would be less bookings in the next academic year due to the current economic climate.
5. Reports from Task Groups: 5.1 DG, Chair of Task Group 1, reported that the Professional Qualifications Workshops have now finished, that they had gone very well and that offering each workshop as a stand-alone session as well had helped to maintain numbers. This successful format will be repeated next year. The Library Assistants’ Career Development Day on the 19th May and the second of the SDO Discussion Forums on the 1st June had also gone very well. DG reported that they were hoping to run the ‘Applying to study Library and Information Science’ event as a one-day conference next academic year and that the Group hoped to invite some current library students to this, to talk about the Cilip application process to delegates. MN mentioned two possible student names for this. The Group are also going to run the Career Progression Day for Library Assistants again and two Discussion Forums for SDO’s. The SG discussed possible topics for the latter two events e.g. change management, team awaydays and training on a shoestring. Two visits are also being arranged to the National Art Library and Senate House Library. 5.2 RA, Chair of Task Group 2, had sent his apologies for the meeting and a written report. The Group are arranging a Contract and Supplier Management event for October/November 2009 and a Managing Management Information event for October 2009. Further events will be scheduled after their next meeting on 30th July. The SG said that it is really useful to have some discussion time at these events and hoped that the supplier event would cover built-in contracts. The SG wondered if it might be better to run the managing information event in November or early December instead i.e. before the SCONUL statistics need to be in.
5.3 CP, Chair of Task Group 3, reported that they had
last met in May and were meeting next on 4th August. TG3 are arranging a
Collection Development event, dealing with the operational side of things, to
run on 20th January 2010. They are
hoping to get some book dealers along to this. An event on customer service is
being arranged for early 2010 and an event catering for non-traditional
learners a bit later in 2010. The latter event would cover current policies and
what it is reasonable to offer. An event on working patterns is currently being
arranged to run before Christmas, with 24/7 to now be run as a separate event.
MN suggested to CP that TG3 could arrange an event on Business Process
Re-Engineering and a discussion took place on this topic. CP agreed to
investigate this further and then discuss it with TG3 at their next meeting. A
number of visits are being arranged by the Group but these will be put on a
‘back-burner’ for a bit until the events are organised. The exception to this
would be the National Monuments Record Centre at
5.4 JC, Chair of Task Group 4, had sent her apologies for the meeting and a
written report. This year’s events and
visits have gone very well and from these the Group have devised next year’s
programme. The Group are arranging a new event called ‘The Leadership Journey’
to replace the New Managers course. This will include motivation and moving
from a specialist job into management, and also negotiation and influencing
skills. The SG felt that the latter event would be better run as a one-day
event rather than a half-day. Time Management, Emotional Intelligence, Coping
at the Counter, Coping even Better are all being re-run, as are the
5.5 HA, Chair of Task Group 5, reported that the Collaborative Software
event run on 8th May was very well received and that they will be running it
again next year. HA reported that TG5 would be producing events on two topics
next year: Counter Cultures & Customer Care, and Technology. Through
discussion, it emerged that the former topic could be run as a joint conference
with TG3. An event was also being investigated to look at using special
collections to support teaching. This would be a one-day event linked with a
visit. On the technology side of things, areas being investigated include
reading lists and digitisation, VLE’s, single search and access management, and
the next stage on re Web2. Possible visits to be arranged include an
6. Report from Chair on the recent M25 Steering Group Meeting 6.1 MN reported that on the 23rd September the M25 Consortium’s annual networking event would be taking place, together with a talk and a demonstration/official launch of the ‘Director’s Room’. Members of all cpd25’s Task Groups would be invited to this. 6.2 MN discussed with the SG future plans to introduce some senior management staff training and how this might best be achieved.
7. Any Other Business: HA, Chair of Task Group 5, announced that she was being made redundant at the end of July. MN agreed to investigate what the Consortium’s rules are with regard to HA continuing to be a Chair of a Task Group.
8. Date of next meeting: CH to circulate possible dates for a meeting in October.
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