These are things that could be done to help people write and publish, as identified at the LILAC workshop on 26 March 2007. Participants - please add anything that is missed.

Personally

• Read more widely myself – get a feel for articles, topics, style

• Leave my desk, switch off email!!

• Schedule it into my diary

• Use techniques for getting started e.g. setting a limited number of words to write

• Apply for funding so you get some free time

• Get it seen as staff development – needing time and training

• Make a business case for writing e.g. in terms of benefit to library or students

Employer

• Make it part of job description

• Employer could set a good example!

• Providing space – a room – for people to write in; or allowing people to work from home

• Mentoring

CILIP (or other professional association)

• Grants for writing

• Information about how to get published

• Mentor system

• Facilitate a community of practice

• Networking platform for co-authoring

• Writers groups – something non threatening

• More practitioner journals to write in!

LILAC

• Inviting publishers for potential writers to talk with them

• Writers groups at the conference