Dear CPDWL colleagues,

The year and the work within our section is well in progress. Ongoing projects and actions we planned when we met in Cape Town are developing, and the new year has also brought interesting new contexts for CPDWL to take part in. Here is a short overview of CPDWL activities this spring:

The revised Quality Guidelines document Continuing Professional Development:Principles and Best Practices has been sent to the IFLA Head Quarters for final formatting and after that it will go to the Professional Committee for endorsement to be published as an IFLA guideline document. The IFLA CPD guidelines will be published in May, indeed something to celebrate!

The IFLA HQ was, as you may know, approached by Public Libraries 2020 in Brussels early this year to partner with them and others on an EU funding application around skill gaps in librarianship. An Erasmus project on this topic has started and the CPDWL Section is presenting IFLA in the project. Susan Schnuer is in lead for the CPDWL participation in this project. The Erasmus project involvement is a new way to work for CPDWL and strategically very interesting.

The Satellite Meeting 2016 in Cleveland is being prepared and the Satellite Committee is doing a great job with all that has to be done to get a conference like this together. Ulrike Lang has the lead together with Cindy Lombardo as the local organizer and Matilde Fontanin as responsible for the program together with Holly Hubenschmidt. Read more on the Satellite website https://transforminglibraries.wordpress.com/about/. CPDWL has a reputation for running excellent satellite meetings! Over the years committee members have acquired a lot of experience and documents about running a successful satellite meeting. The CPDWL Satellite Guide published on our IFLA website gathers that experience, and the documents, in an easy-to-use format for future satellite conveners. The hope is that this guide will be a living document, edited as needed, and with additional documents added by committee members to chronicle their work on future CPDWL satellite meetings. Check out the guide here http://www.ifla.org/publications/node/10044?og=82

At the WLIC in Columbus the CPDWL will be conducting a workshop on the updated IFLA Guidelines for CPD. CPDWL will collaborate with SET on a session about Online education and training and give a Knowledge café in collaboration with KM and IFLAPARL.

In the CPDWL Action plan 2016 we state that we want to make CPD part of the Building Strong Library Associations program. IFLA Head Quarters has noted this and contacted us for input about the growing trend of registration councils or registration for librarians. This is a topic related to professional development that is of importance and we find that it aligns with CPDWL’s interest, so we will follow this up with HQ. A collaboration with the Management of Library Associations Section has also been initiated to support the BSLA program to move forward by focusing on strategic continuing professional development and staff development plans.

The much appreciated and well attended webinars hosted by CPDWL together with the New Professionals Special Interests Group (NPSIG) continue. The date for next webinar is March 31 and the topic is library services to immigrants and refugees including models and best practices from different regions of the world. Join this topical webinar! http://www.ifla.org/node/10260?og=82.

If you want to be on the work group for any of these activities, please contact us. It is fun to be involved and you will find that the work and contact with CPDWL colleagues is very inspiring.

To all of you already participating in the CPDWL activities – thank you so much for your engagement and wonderful work!

Kind regards,

Ewa Stenberg and Catharina Isberg, co-chairs of CPDWL

BUS HIRE FOR CPDWL DELEGATES: SOLOMONS BUSES,

Adderley Street is the main street in Cape Town, running down from The Gardens. Many hotels are in the area to the left of Adderley, and to the right are the Civic centre and other public buildings. GET A MAP!

ADDERLEY STREET becomes the HEERENGRACHT at the FIRST OF TWO LARGE TRAFFIC CIRCLES. The PARK INN RADISSON HOTEL is then on your left, and at this point, turning right from the HEERENGRACHT a street cuts across the large central divide and leads to the right into HERTZOG BOULEVARD. Walking further along HERTZOG BOULEVARD you will find the central bus terminus for My CiTi buses

The HEERENGRACHT continues down to the SECOND LARGE TRAFFIC CIRCLE, and at the far left curve of the circle, is the corner of the CT ICC (the Convention Centre where IFLA WLIC is taking place). One of the MAIN ENTRANCES OF THE CT ICC, the HEERENGRACHT ENTRANCE, is here on your left.

THE CPDWL SOLOMONS BUS WILL DEPART FROM & RETURN TO OUTSIDE THE HEERENGRACHT ICC ENTRANCE. There will be one 60-seater bus clearly visible as SOLOMONS BUS.

1. THE BUS WILL DEPART FROM THE ICC HEERENGRACHT ENTRANCE AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES (NON-STOP JOURNEY) TO MILNERTON (only one bus departure per day):

WEDNESDAY 12^th AUGUST FOR REGISTRATION PLUS AFTERNOON EVENTS

DEPARTS ICC AT 12:00 noon to ARRIVE AT MILNERTON 12:45pm for Registration, snack lunch and Nature Reserve tour

ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SOLOMONS BUS WILL TOUR BLAAUWBERG NATURE RESERVE 14:00-16:00, from Milnerton and returning to Milnerton.

THURSDAY 13^th AUGUST FOR OPENING & ALL DAY1 OF SATELLITE CONFERENCE

DEPARTS ICC AT 8:00 am TO ARRIVE AT MILNERTON 08:45 am

FRIDAY 14th AUGUST FOR DAY 2 OF SATELLITE

DEPARTS ICC AT 08:30 am TO ARRIVE AT MILNERTON 09:15 am

2. THE BUS WILL RETURN FROM MILNERTON TO THE ICC HEERENGRACHT AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES (NON STOP JOURNEY)

WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 18:45/19:00 (6:45 / 7.00 pm) after the Welcome Reception at Milnerton PL

THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 17:30 (5:30 pm) after the end of the last session

FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 16:15 (4:15 pm) after Closure of the conference

FOR ALTERNATIVE, MYCITI BUS PUBLIC TRANSPORT, in the event of wishing to travel between the Cape Town city centre and Milnerton at more flexible times (or if you miss the morning bus!) please see detailed instructions below

General:

The Public Bus Service in Cape Town is called MyCiti. You will find a link on the City’s website www.capetown.gov.za (When you click on this website you are asked for a password but it does in fact open. The MyCiti link is midway down on the right side, above the calendar!). If it won’t open, Google MyCiti CapeTown

PLEASE NOTE THAT MyCiti BUSES DO NOT TAKE CASH. IT IS NECESSARY FIRST TO BUY A MyCiti card – at bus stations or other vendors – ask the Hotel if necessary)

PUBLIC TRANSPORT ALTERNATIVE: MYCITI BUS ROUTE T 01 CITY CENTRE TO MILNERTON

There is a bus from the City to Milnerton every 15/20 minutes, with the first bus departure from 05:45. The route you will take is the Dunoon/Table View route, MyCiti bus number T 01. If you need to connect from another route, please access a MyCiti app or busmap on line.

The main MyCiti bus terminus is located in Hertzog Boulevard (see below). This stop is walking distance from the CTICC and major hotels.   Bus T 01 is the bus you will need to take, on the Dunoon/Table View route.

The MyCiti T 01 starting point is ADDERLEY STREET/ Thibault M6 , the street just to the left of a large traffic circle. The bus route goes down Adderley street into Heerengracht, to Hertzog Boulevard and out to Milnerton on the West Coast Road. The bus trip is scheduled to take 33 minutes – allow 40 min if you are using it to travel to Milnerton.

Adderley Street is the main street running down from The Gardens and becomes the HEERENGRACHT at the FIRST OF TWO LARGE TRAFFIC CIRCLES.

The PARK INN RADISSON HOTEL is then on your left, and at this point, turning right from the HEERENGRACHT a street cuts across the large central divide and leads to the right into HERTZOG BOULEVARD. Walking further along HERTZOG BOULEVARD you will find the central bus terminus.

You need to get off at the Milnerton bus terminus at the Milnerton High School.

Take the short walk to the library: walk towards the corner at Broad Rd and turn left. At the circle, turn left again in to Pienaar Rd. Walk down the road, pass the Milnerton High School and you will find the library on the left.

Contact number at Milnerton Library: +27 21 444 0815 or contact the local contacts Flippie van der Walt +27 82 5492227 or Carmen Holtzman +27 84 225 2038

Registration for the IFLA Continuing Professional Development & Workplace Learning CPDWL satellite conference, 12 – 14 August in Milnerton, Cape Town, is now extended to 4 August. See our website https://iflasatellitemilnerton2015.wordpress.com/registration/ for Registration and payment. Please note there is NO late registration fee but there are NO WALK-IN! Registrations and payment MUST close on 4th August.

TRANSPORT AND TOUR: For delegates already booked into Cape Town city centre hotels, bus transport will be provided from the City Centre (exact pick up point to be announced) to Milnerton and return at the start and end of each day’s programme, plus a bus tour to the City of Cape Town Blaauwberg Nature Reserve on Wednesday 12th August prior to the Welcome Reception at Milnerton Public Library.

ACCOMMODATION: We have been asked about accommodation that is not a city centre hotel.

Check out www.booking.com for accommodation houses at Milnerton, but check reviews and particularly do inquire about closeness or public transport to MILNERTON PUBLIC LIBRARY on PIENAAR ROAD MILNERTON.

Our local Milnerton Library contact has also identified the following accommodations close to the Library, but cannot make any personal comment or recommendation: We recommend you google each of the guest house names and check booking and review information. CPDWL cannot assist with accommodation booking or advice about individual guest houses.

1) HAJO’S LODGE   www.hajo-sa.com, 83 Ascot Road Milnerton

2) All three of the following are on Balers Way, Sunset Beach Milnerton — google the name of the guesthouse and open various booking links, especially www.booking.com and www.tripadvisor.co.za and

BALERS WAY GUEST HOUSE

SAFFRON HOUSE GUEST HOUSE

AUBERGINE GUEST HOUSE

3) COLORS OF CAPE TOWN LODGE – google the name but be sure to add Milnerton as there is more than one Cape Town Lodge!

For questions about the Satellite Meeting, please contact Ewa Stenberg, ewa.stenberg@mah.se.

We look forward to receive your registrations and to meet with you all in Milnerton. Together we will make a great conference!