The near future...

• Opportunities to read & learn

• Equality of opportunity

• Celebrating an aging population

• Creating jobs

• A mature connected society – trust, authority, privacy & safety

Beautiful places

Creative ideas

http://www.ned-potter.com/blog/visiting-libraries-is-the-most-popular-activity-in-the-uk-spread-these-resources-far-and-wide

Engaged customers

“To be librarian or information professional is to be someone who believes that they can change the world through knowledge”

R.D LankesCILIP Conference

“CILIP’s purpose is to unite, represent and grow the library and information profession”

What do we want?

1. Every boy & girl has the opportunity to read, develop their information literacy and critical thinking skills

2. Every school with a library and a library and information professional at its heart

3. Every community supported by & benefitting from the skills of a library & information professional

4. Every business investing in the skills to value and managing knowledge & information as an asset

5. Every University, enterprise, charity, hospital or organisation with the skills to create, manage and re-use knowledge and information to benefit their users

An inclusive profession

LibrarianshipInformation ManagementInformation LiteracyLearning

Core priorities

• Supporting, nurturing & celebrating our membership

• Providing an effective & influential national voice for our profession

• Helping people plan & build their career in libraries & information management

• Working in partnership to further our common interests

National Libraries Day – 6th February 2016

www.cilip.org.uk/strategy2020