Minutes of the cpd25 Steering Group

6th December 2011, 2pm

LSE Library: Room 301

Present: Robert Atkinson, Sally Faith, Claire Hackshall (Administrator), Antony Loveland (Chair), Catherine Phillpotts and Pat Simons. 

1. Apologies:

Martin Carbonell sent his apologies.

2. Minutes of the previous meeting:

Accepted as an accurate record.

3. Matters arising:

N/A

4. Financial update:

CH reported that the majority of cpd25 invoices for the last academic year had now been paid and that the remaining few were being chased up. CH also reported that the annual audit was currently taking place and due to the fact that SageOne is now going to be used for all financial record keeping, this year’s audit process would take a bit longer than usual. 

5. Chair’s update:

AL reported that directors training needs are currently being investigated. AL also reported that he had participated in an interview with CILIP and that as a result of this an article on cpd25 would be published in CILIP magazine in due course. He also reported that CILIP has offered cpd25 the opportunity to write a monthly column for twelve months for the magazine and he asked the Chairs to talk to their groups about how this could be carried out and then to report back to him with their findings. In the meantime AL agreed to find out further details regarding what is required for this e.g. the monthly date deadlines, how many words would need to be written etc.

6. Reports from Task Groups:

Task Group 1:

This group submitted an electronic report in advance of the meeting (see attached). After discussion, it was agreed that Task Group 1 would drop the organising of a visit to the RNIB as Task Group 2 had already arranged a visit there.  

Task Group 2:

This group submitted an electronic report in advance of the meeting (see attached). No additional notes to these.  

Task Group 3:

This group submitted an electronic report in advance of the meeting (see attached). After discussion, it was agreed that Task Group 5 would drop the organising of an event on ‘Acquiring a new Library Management System’, as Task Group 3 hoped to run this. It was also agreed that Task Group 5 would run a ‘Collections Showcase’ and not Task Group 3.

Task Group 4:

SF gave a verbal update on the events that Task Group 4 were to run.  SF also requested that one or two more people join Task Group 4, as there had been a few resignations recently.  

Task Group 5:

PS gave a verbal update on the events that Task Group 5 were to run and reported that the Shared Services event was to be moved to January 2012 due to work commitments.

7. Any Other Business

N/A

8. Date of next meeting:

It was agreed that this would take place on 21st March 2012 at 11am, with the annual lunch to follow afterwards.