CILIP - a professional network - its special interest and regional groups

CILIP is the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

It has a number of special interest groups, including the Academic and Research Libraries Group.

There are also regional groups, including one for the Southern area of the UK.  Through their section of CILIP's website I discovered that there is a local training day for Library Assistants on 16 July 2013 which looks very relevant to my work. 

Reviews of previous events such as the 2013 ARLG Southern AGM and CPD day "We need to talk about ARLG" held on 1st May gave valuable information.  For example, there was a link to the powerpoint presentation given by the President of CILIP, Phil Bradley, entitled "Google, search engines and social media".  There was also a reference to a website - www.eduapps.org - where useful software collections that can be used to support teaching and learning are available to download.