Librarianship student Lottie shares her thoughts about this year's CILIP conference. This year I was lucky enough to receive an iSchool bursary to attend the 2023 CILIP conference in Birmingham . The annual CILIP conference is the UK’s leading event for library and information professionals and felt like a good first conference for a new professional to visit given the breadth of topics explored and job diversity of the delegates attending. I was also curious about the theme of this year’s event which centred around issues of leadership, emerging talent and wellbeing. Day one conference timetable and my badge! This was my first conference post-pandemic and my first event in the library and information professional sphere. I was apprehensive about attending as an MA student but once I arrived and began chatting to fellow delegates, any anxiety I had about my professional status was quickly dissipated. In fact, I would go as far as to say that these informal connections that were for...
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