Category: CILIP
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CILIP and the Führerprinzip
There’s a great deal of guff talked about leadership these days. It’s an epidemic. Even a shift supervisor in a fast-food restaurant these days is a leader, it seems. Whether or not one subscribes to the modern cult of leadership, the proposal that goes to an Extraordinary General Meeting of CILIP on Thursday 23rd March…
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Setting the record straight
The paper for Agenda item 8 at tomorrow's CILIP AGM factually inaccurate. It states, 'Council took a vote and decided by a majority of eleven to one to present the amended proposals to members for vote at the AGM. The Trustee who abstained on this decision, Tom Roper, then took the decision to resign from Council citing the…
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Was the CILIP Governance Review conducted ‘in plain sight’?
Nick Poole, CILIP Council member and former Tresurer, has made the assertion at Public Libraries News that CILIP’s Governance Review, on which we vote at Saturday’s AGM, was conducted ‘in plain sight’. Not so. I have commented as follows, ‘I am afraid that Nick Poole is simply wrong when he says that the discussions on…
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Public Libraries News: Two past presidents on the CILIP governance proposals
The influential Public Libraries News site has published statement from two past Presidents on the CILIP governance review. Tom Featherstone and Bob Usherwood. ‘CILIP members are rightly proud of the part they play in maintaining democracy and want their professional body to reflect democratic principles. For many members, the governance proposals under discussion do not…
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CILIP and the cobbler’s children
I commend to any reader interested in the affairs of our professional association this blog post by Brian Kelly on his UK Web Focus blog, Wikipedia, Librarians and CILIP. Brian has been encouraging library and information professionals to get involved in editing Wikipedia. He pointed out that CILIP’s Wikipedia page contained membership information from 2012…
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Tony Benn’s five questions for the powerful and the CILIP Governance Review
The late Tony Benn in the years when he left parliament in order to devote his time to politics devised five questions to ask anyone who exercises power. They were these: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And…
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CILIP governance: a reply to Martyn Wade
I promised I’d reply to Martyn’s comments on my post about CILIP’s governance review. I’m grateful for the reply. I think Martyn is a good Chair of Council, and is trying to move Council in the right direction, towards more openness. 1. On democracy: Martyn says that to have a third of the seats on…
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Farewell to CILIP Council
Today I e-mailed Martyn Wade, Chair of CILIP Council, to say I was resigning from CILIP Council. At the Council meeting on 8 July we debated, for the first time since I was elected to Council, the Governance Review proposals. I have written before about the Governance Review, and once more here: http://www.roper.org.uk/tr/2013/07/cilips-governance-review-update.html This review has been…
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Why is there only one Monopolies Commission? A reply to Leon Bolton
Why is there only one Monopolies Commission, wits used to write on lavatory walls. In a similar vein, Leon Bolton, in a thoughtful blog post, suggests that the lack of competition may be a cause of CILIP's difficulties. I'm not sure I agree. There is competition. To take my own case, I am a member…
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My first CILIP Council: Peace and Progress?
What did I expect? My view of CILIP Council, and of the LA before it, is strongly coloured by Edward Dudley’s sketches, latterly appearing under as his Clip Board column. Edward’s Runyonesque prose evoked a world of Determined Ladies and Retired Layabouts. I was particularly disappointed that the toast to Peace and Progress, drunk, according…