Minutes of the cpd25 Steering Group

25th March 2010, 2.30pm

LSE Library: Room 300b

In attendance: Robert Atkinson, David Gee, Claire Hackshall (Administrator) and Mary Nixon (Chair). 

1. Apologies:

Coral Black, Judith Cattermole, and Sally Faith and Catherine Phillpotts.

2. Report from Chair on current Task Group Chairs’ vacancies:

MN reported that CB had agreed to become the Chair of Task Group 5. MN also reported that JC was to resign as Chair of Task Group 4 at the end of May and that SF had agreed to become the new Chair of this group. MN asked CH to send an email to the members of each of these groups informing them of the names of their new chairs.

3. Minutes of the previous meeting:

Accepted as an accurate record.

4. Matters arising:

N/A

5. Financial update:

CH reported on the current financial position of this year’s programme and also reported that she had just been given permission by the Treasurer to start sending out invoices for 2009/10 events.

6. Reports from Task Groups:

6.1 DG, Chair of Task Group 1, reported that the 2009/10 Professional Qualifications Workshops Series was going very well and that the one-day conference on Applying to Study Library and Information Science also went well. A Career Progression Day for Library Assistants was being organised to take place in May and the first of two discussion forums for SDO’s had taken place the day before and had gone very well. DG advised that with two members of his group having recently resigned he would welcome some new members.

6.2 RA, Chair of Task Group 2, reported that quite a few of the group’s events were still in the planning stage due to the current workloads of members. Each event was discussed and MN gave some suggestions for further help with these. The group had recently run an event on making libraries more accessible and this had been very popular both in terms of attendance numbers and feedback. RA reported that several visits had been organised by the group and that these had gone very well, with more visits due to run shortly.

6.3 CP, Chair of Task Group 3, had sent her apologies and a written report which was examined by the group.

6.4 JC, Chair of Task Group 4, had sent her apologies and a written report which was examined by the group.

7. Report from Chair on the recent M25 Steering Group Meeting:

MN reported back on this.

8. cpd25 Planning Day 2010:

MN reported that this would be run on the theme of ‘Hard Times/Great Expectations’ due to the straightened times which everyone was facing. It was agreed that this should be organised for either 18th or 25th May 2010. MN drew the attention of the Steering Group to the fact that traditionally cpd25 tended to run a lot of its events in April, May and June and that it might be better to balance this out better by running some of these earlier in the year. MN suggested that new topics that would make good cpd25 events could include: re-structuring from different task group angles e.g. operations management, managing meetings, project management, fundraising and income generation.

9. Any Other Business:

N/A

10. Date of next meeting:

MN suggested that each task group should try and have a meeting to discuss the 2010/11 programme between the planning day in May and late July, with the next Steering Group meeting taking place during the last week of July 2010.