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New Professionals Conference 2011 - Debrief!!
On Monday 20th June 2011, the University of Manchester played host to the third annual New Professionals Conference, the theme; Professionalism and Activism in a Time of Downturn, and what a great conference it was.
Lots of tweets (#npc2011) were sent before, during and after the event and many blog posts have been written which is give a fantastic range of perspectives of the day from both presenters and participants. Here are just a few of the blog posts:
Oxford Libraries Graduate Trainee Programme, Sarah Stewart
CILIP Career Development Group New Professionals Conference 2011
The Hobbit Hole, Annie Johnson
New Professionals Conference 2011
Pailey Loitering, Laura Steel
New Professionals Conference 2011
Alice in Libraryland
New Professionals Conference 2011: a conference virgin-virgin speaks
Rise of the Inforgs, a collective, for this post Ka-Ming Pang
New Professionals Conference 2011
Rise of the Inforgs, a collective, for this post Joseph Norwood
NPC Conference Hourlies Part one
NPC 2011: part 2
Rachel's Big Adventure, Rachel Bickley
The CILIP CDG New Professionals Conference 2011
Twinset and Purls, Samantha Halford
New Professionals Conference 2011: What happened
Undaimonia, Simon Barron
What does 'professionalism' mean? CILIP New Professionals Conference 2011
missrachelsmith, Rachel Smith
Thoughts on the 2011 New Professionals Conference
Ben's Library Blog
New Professionals Conference
Life in the Fair-Middling Library Lane, Michael Cook
#npc2011 Talking Point: Are New Professionals too Cliquey? One Perspective
The day
As well as workshops participants were treated to 6 fantastic presentations from a range of wonderful speakers. There was a vote for the 'best paper' of the day and that went to Naomi Herbert and Katie Birkwood for Teaching old books new tricks: how special collections outreach can help you, your career, and your library. They received and a bottle of champagne kindly sponsored by
Sue Hill Recruitment and CILIP Past President Biddy Fisher presenting the prize.
Run ner up Megan Wiley was also recognised for For your eyes only: The need to develop professionalism in a careers information team
All of the presentations will eventually be available on the Career Development Group Slideshare.
@sarahjison took some fantastic photos throughout the day and they are available on Flickr.
What next?
With the success of the conference over the last three years the Career Development Group is hoping this will continue for the future, so keep an eye out here and on the Career Development Group pages on CILIP website and Twitter for details of what will be happening for the New Professionals Conference 2012! If you've any ideas of what you would like to see included as workshops or a possible theme or potential venues then get in touch eillingworth@googlemail.com or add your ideas in the comments box below. Hurray!
Thanks everyone that came and participated for making the day a real success.
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