BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:914@m25lib.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221209T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221209T160000 DTSTAMP:20221207T135832Z URL:https://www.m25lib.org.uk/events/directors-briefing-diversity-in-the-m 25-consortium/ SUMMARY:Directors' Briefing: Diversity in the M25 Consortium: challenging o urselves and our institutions DESCRIPTION:Directors and Heads of Service (from both within and without th e M25 Consortium) are invited to attend a Directors’ Briefing on Diversi ty in the M25 Consortium: challenging ourselves and our institutions. Dire ctors are invited to send a deputy if unable to attend themselves.\n\nOur speakers will present on their experiences of how the M25 Consortium has w orked to develop equity\, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives within and across member libraries so far. The event will also include reflectio ns from the lived experience of Consortium member staff.\n\nThis Briefing has a particular focus on Directors’ engaging their staff and colleagues within and across their institutions. The focus will be on practical acti on which foster equity\, diversity and inclusion in their services\, with recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce a key concern. The event will include an opportunity to feed back to the Consortium on initiatives M25 could take forward to better support members with this important work. \n\nAhead of the briefing\, attendees are requested to read and reflect on the results of a recent Staff Survey of M25 institutions.\n\nProgramme\n\ n13:00 Arrival\, refreshments and networking\n\n13:30 Welcome (Anna Semmen s\, Head of Library: Royal College of Nursing\, and Sponsor of the M25 Div ersity Group)\n\n13:45 Katie Winter (University of Surrey\, and Chair of M 25 Diversity Group) and Cliff van Dort (The National Archives): Diversity in M25 Institutions: findings of a recent survey\n\n14:15 Questions\, disc ussion\, and actions from the report\n\n15:00 Comfort break\n\n15:15 Helen Rimmer (University of Westminster): Changing recruitment and retention pr actices: a case study\n\n15:30 Two members of Fair Library Jobs - Darren F lynn and Kirsten Elliott speak about will speak about their work and how t hey are encouraging fair recruitment in the Library sector.\n\n15:45 Quest ions and discussion\n\n16:00 Close\, and opportunity to view facilities an d exhibition at the RCN\n\n \;\n\nSpeaker biographies\n\nKatie Winter: Katie has been working in HE libraries since completing her Master’s in Librarianship in 2017. Starting as a Trainee Liaison Librarian at the Uni versity of Reading\, she moved on to the University of Surrey as a Learnin g Development Librarian in 2019\, pursuing an interest in teaching and lea rning. In the same year\, Katie joined the M25 Diversity group and served as Chair from summer 2020 to autumn 2022. On a local level\, she is Chair of the Library EDI group at Surrey and has specific interests in inclusive teaching and inclusive recruitment practices.\n\nCliff Van Dort: Cliff ha s been a Library Professional since 1999\, working predominantly within go vernment for Ministry of Agriculture\, Fisheries and Food and then Departm ent of Environment\, Food and Rural Affairs running and managing enquiry s ervices\, collections and marketing as the only person of colour in a mana gerial position with Civil service.  He spent two years in Shanghai\, as a stay-at-home dad and then working for Dulwich College International scho ol at 6th form and Nursery.  On return to the UK he continued to work as a school librarian for international schools for a further year before ret urning to Government libraries as a manager of a small and ever dwindling team.  Cliff Joined The National Archives as Head of Library in 2017 and in the last four years has become more actively involved in diversity and inclusiveness. He joined TNA’s Racial Equality Network in 2019 becoming a co-Chair in 2020\, presenting a paper to the Exec team on issues of dive rsity and inclusiveness in 2021. He joined the M25 Diversity group in 2020 after seeing a request to M25 for members from ethnic minority background to join the group and was selected as the new Chair of the group in autum n 2022.\n\nHe has seen little diversity in Libraries except at Library Ass istant level and as far as he is aware\, is the only person of colour in a managerial position in Civil service\, Archive and Museum libraries\, sin ce he started over twenty years ago and is still only aware of 2 or 3 othe r PoCs at a managerial level in the Civil Service and HE Libraries. He see s Libraries as neutral\, unbiased spaces that should provide access to all stories and voices\, allowing users to learn\, gain knowledge and form th eir own opinions. Whilst with the TNA he hopes to decolonize and balance t he collection with histories from marginalised and previously unheard stor ies from British history and works closely with Diversity and ethnic minor ity research specialists to achieve this.\n\nHelen Rimmer: Helen Rimmer is Head of Library and Archives Service at the University of Westminster\, h aving previously held roles at different levels at Royal Holloway\, City U niversity\, INTO UEA and the University of Brighton. She is passionate abo ut compassionate leadership\, inclusive recruitment\, kindness and wellbei ng at work\, data driven management\, and Flexible Working.\n\nDarren Flyn n: Darren Flynn is one of the founding members of Fair Library Jobs. He i s Academic Liaison Manager at the University of Northampton and a PhD stud ent in the Department of Information Studies at University College London. He has previously working as an academic liaison librarian for allied hea lth professions and a teaching and learning librarian.\n\nKirsten Elliott:  Kirsten Elliott is one of the founding members of Fair Library Jobs. She is a medical librarian at Imperial College London\, working primarily wit h NHS staff. She has previously worked as a library assistant in college l ibraries at the University of Cambridge and as an Information Specialist A ssistant for the Royal College of Physicians.\n\n \;\n\nCost:\n\n M25 Consortium members receive one free Directors’ Briefing place per insti tution per year (this is the first briefing of the year for 2022-23). Addi tional places cost £75\n Non-M25 Consortium members £112.50\n\nTo book a place please use our online booking form\, remembering to include your P O number if applicable.\n\n*Please note that bookings will close at 5pm on Thursday 8th December.*\n\nCancellation Policy\n\nCancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50% cancellation fee.\nIn the event of a ‘no-show’ on the day\, the full fee will be charged.\n\nIn formation for joining this session\n\nThis session is offered in-person to facilitate networking\, though if you prefer to join online only\, please indicate when you book using the 'special requests' field on the booking form. If your booking has been confirmed\, joining instructions will be em ailed to you on the 8 December.\n\n*Please note that bookings will close a t 5pm on Thursday 8th December.* CATEGORIES:M25 Events LOCATION:Royal College of Nursing\, 20 Cavendish Square\, London\, W1G ORN\ , United Kingdom GEO:51.516046;-0.145766 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=20 Cavendish Square\, Londo n\, W1G ORN\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Royal College of N ursing:geo:51.516046,-0.145766 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR