This week has flown - with no time for blogging or tweeting at all!  So a quick run through.

Monday was a chance to talk to the School Library Publishers meeting of the EPC at the Publishers Association - about the Primary School Library Charter and how publishers can also promote it to schools.  This was followed by a round table session at the School Library Commission, chaired by Baroness Morris.  There were all the library organisations around the table at the National Literacy Trust spelling out the current situation in school libraries and also doing some crystal ball gazing on what the future might look like.  Alan Gibbons and Bob McKee of CILIP have both blogged the meeting in detail.  SLA also had to make sure its written submission to the commission got in on time!

Wednesday was a calmer day at the office - filled with all the usual necessities that arise on a day of admin, phone calls etc.  Thursday and off to Manchester to meet a group of members who are keen to start a new branch there - a really enthusiastic meeting and hopefully the group is off to a flying start.  Dinner afterwards with a group from the meeting was a very convivial affair - it is lovely to meet members and have the chance to talk through some of the issues that are exercising us all.

Thursday also saw the launch of the CILIP Manifesto which also includes a further call to the next government to make school libraries statutory - a major campaign we are supporting.

Friday - travelled back to Northants for a couple of brief local meetings with possible sponsors and partners for the future.

Off to Ireland next week - to meet members in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic before attending the LILAC conference in Limerick - hope I may see some of you there!

Tricia Adams