1. Scottish Library and Information Council Sharing Vision Planning Practice: Information Professionals in FE Annual Event Rising to the Challenge Ivor Lloyd, CILIPS President 27 th November 2006

2. Challenges facing your Services – You are not alone! Reduced book issues? Reduced footfall? Impact of electronic resources? Reduced funding? Threatened by external standards? Single Status/Framework Agreement? Redundancies? Not sure what the punters want anymore? Staff losing will to live? So where are we going?

3. Challenges facing you as a Professional - Themes of my Presidential year Our relevance and value as a Profession Customer care Information literacy Partnership and collaboration Corporate information

4. The Advent of the Cybrarian! Fusion of our traditional skills with digital environments –new opportunities for us and the profession in new information environments

5. The Advent of the Cybrarian! Information architecture –applying classification, indexing, thesauri building techniques to improving the organisation and retrieval of information from on-line environments

6. The Advent of the Cybrarian! Education and working with educational technologies –helping others makes sense of cyberspace and accompanying issues of information overload –using educational technology to enhance information literacy skills teaching

7. The Advent of the Cybrarian! Helping organisations make sense of their corporate information –information retrieval –records management –knowledge management

8. Challenges facing you as a Professional Our relevance and value as a Profession Customer care Information literacy Partnership & collaboration Corporate information Information & knowledge strategy Continuing professional development Engagement with CILIPS

9. The Role of CILIPS and SLIC Advocacy and Persuasion Changing political environment CILIP (London) financial situation

10. Huge Potential, Often Not Realised Change is required - and is achievable! Impact! Fun! Passion! Rising to the Challenge – Are you up for it?