Minutes of the cpd25 Steering Group

29th July 2010, 10.30am

LSE Library: Room 301

In attendance: Robert Atkinson, Coral Black, David Gee, Claire Hackshall (Administrator), Antony Loveland, Mary Nixon (Chair) and Catherine Phillpotts. 

1. Apologies:

Sally Faith.

2. Minutes of the previous meeting:

Accepted as an accurate record.

3. Matters arising:

It was noted that this was DG’s last Steering Group meeting as Chair of Task Group 1 and that AL would be taking over from him.

4. Financial update:

CH reported on the financial position of the 2009-10 cpd25 programme. The group agreed that this was good and much better than had originally been expected, given the present economic situation. MN warned that attendance numbers may go down next year and that events should be advertised to wider audiences as much as possible.

A discussion regarding other advertising routes took place and the following was suggested: the JISC UC & R list might be able to be used [RA is a member of their committee and agreed to investigate this]; cpd25 could set up a group presence on LinkedIn, as CILIP has done and MN agreed to investigate this along with the possible use of Twitter and to check with the M25 Marketing Committee if this would be allowed. 

5. Reports from Task Groups:

5.1 CB, the new Chair of Task Group 5, reported that she had now had a meeting with the group and this had gone very well. The events that had been run during 2009-10 had all had good feedback and a programme of events for 2010-11 had also been agreed. CB supplied a detailed table of Task Group 5’s forthcoming events and visits.

At the end of the discussion about the Group’s events, it was agreed that as Task Group 5’s table was in a very clear format, each Task Group Chair would also supply their own table based on Task Group 5’s table, giving a list of their prospective events and visits. This would help to form the basis of the annual letter that MN writes to Consortium members each Autumn and would also enable each Chair to see what other Task Groups are organising.

It was agreed that each Chair would send their completed table to CH by the end of August and that these would be put on the cpd25 website under the Steering Group Minutes section.

It was also agreed that due to some of Task Group 5’s visits overlapping with other Task Group’s visits, greater emphasis should be made in these adverts of the different perspectives that each visit would take.

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

In view of the fact that Task group 4 were planning a second visit to the House of Commons  the Chair of Task Group 2 agreed to tell his group not to go ahead with a similar visit that they were planning.

It was felt that the event on ‘marketing yourself and your library’ would need to be sufficiently distinguished from an event that Task Group 1 run each year on Career Progression. It was also felt that a re-run of the popular transferable skills course run last year would be an excellent idea.

There was some concern that a ‘customer care in a retail environment’ event would conflict with Task Group 3 who will be doing a follow-up event to their event last year on this topic. CP agreed to ask her member of the group who was organising this event to speak to SF about this. It was also felt that this doesn’t really replace CATC and MN agreed to talk to SF about this.

It was agreed that AL would talk to SF about the possible ‘training the trainer’ event that they were hoping to organise. Normally Task Group 1 covers this topic at its SDO Discussion Forums, but they might be able to use other topics for this instead.

Re the ‘managing budgets’ event, Task Group 2 had planned to run this too but they will now take this off their list.

The events on Senior Library Assistants, Emotional Intelligence, Time Management and Leadership Development (to be done as a complete programme and separately to the Influencing event) sounded very good.

5.3 RA, Chair of Task Group 2, reported on the events and visits that they were planning for the 2010-11 programme. Apart from the overlapping events that are mentioned in Task Group 4’s section above, it was also agreed that Task Group 3 would stay away from organising an event on copyright so that Task Group 2 can take their event on this topic forward.

It was also agreed that as Task Group 1 was also planning a visit to a commercial law firm library, that the Chairs of these two groups would put their relevant members in touch with each other to possibly run this visit jointly. 

5.4 DG, Chair of Task Group 1, reported that there had been some changes to the membership of this group and that it would be good to have another new member. MN agreed to look into this.

Task Group 1’s outlined programme for 2010-11 was thought to be fine, with the exception of the above (please see Task Group 2’s section) and also the May customer care session for the Professional Qualifications Series, where it was felt that it might be an idea to have a change of speaker for this topic.  AL agreed to brief the appropriate member of the Task Group on this. 

5.5 CP, Chair of Task Group 3, reported that the Group had been unable to meet since the Planning Day in May but hoped to do so very soon. It was felt that the Group would benefit from the addition of a new member and MN agreed to look into this.

CP presented a list of events that the Group were hoping to organise next academic year. Regarding the library access for non-traditional learners event, it was agreed that the Chairs of Task Group 2 and 3 would put their relevant members in touch with each other to decide who should run this.

It was agreed that Task Group 3 would drop events planned on business continuity planning, reward structures and challenges of supporting disabled students.

6. Update from the Chair

MN reported that this would be her last year as Chair of cpd25 and that interviews would be taking place next year for her replacement.

7. Any Other Business

MN thanked DG very much for all his hard work as Chair of Task Group 1 and wished him well for the future.

8. Date of next meeting:

It was agreed that this should take place in early November with the annual lunch taking place after this.

It was also agreed that Chairs would have a think about how they could widen the pool of speakers at future cpd25 events and that this would then be discussed at the next Steering Group Meeting.