'Creating collaborative CPD opportunities - a CILIP sub-branch perspective' - Suzanne Tatham and Joseph Norwood, both of the University of Sussex, at the CDG National Conference in Birmingham on 18 July 2012, described the collaborative opportunities that can be created within an active CILIP sub-branch.

1. Creating Collaborative CPD
Opportunities
A CILIP sub-branch perspective

2. Sussex sub-branch
Representing the interests of CILIP
members across the region

3. Communities
of practice
“learning and
participating in
a practice we
negotiate an
identity”
(Cox 2012)

4. Communities
of practice
“continuous
reinvention of
practice as
learning;
communal
possibilities in
practice and
practice-as-a-
perspective”
(Cox 2012)

5. Communities
of practice
A shift of focus from
professional
development to
“Continual
Professional
Learning”
(Webster-Wright
2012)

6. CILIP is currently
looking at ways to
update its CPD
programme

7. Brighton Library TeachMeet
We create opportunities for
collaboration

9. We support online networking

10. We help people develop a broader
view of the profession
“Becoming a CILIP sub-branch member… enabled me
to meet a number of local professionals who have
offered valuable insight into the profession”

11. Working within a
sub-branch team is valuable
experience in itself

12. “My ACLIP application was my main reason for
joining the committee... It has helped my
professional development in ways I had not
anticipated and I now have more to offer to my
employers.”

13. Thank you for listening
Images from
Suzanne Tatham • Pete Hogan
Teaching & Learning Support • Zilverbat
Librarian • Enokson
s.tatham@sussex.ac.uk • Mathieu Struck
• Kelp1966
Joseph Norwood • See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Careers Information Assistant Via Flickr
j.norwood@sussex.ac.uk
• Cox, A. M. (2012). An exploration of the practice
approach and its place in information science.
Quotes from:
Journal of Information Science, 38(2), 176.
Ed Boyden
• Webster-Wright, A. (2009). Reframing professional
Clair Muller development through understanding authentic
Janneke Lie professional learning. Review of Educational
Audrey Marshall Research, 79(2), 702-739.