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 | CILIP membership | | Dear Freepinters
My CILIP membership is due for renewal and I am debating whether to renew or not; being chartered is ... |
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Judy |
08/02/06 08:50 |
37090 |
 | Re: CILIP membership | | None of the discussion on CILIP surprises me. I ceased to be a member a few years ago. I currently ... |
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Librarywebbie |
09/03/06 20:11 |
38035 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I was a student member of CILIP up to last year but I am not renewing my membership. The hike ... |
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Ceri |
24/02/06 12:07 |
37632 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Commercial sector LIS news is – and always has been – very welcome in CILIP's magazine 'Library and Information Update'.
*Please* ... |
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Matthew Mezey |
21/02/06 12:35 |
37562 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Dear All,
This discussion is for me both timely and pertinent because I am in the position of being a ... |
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Bert Washington |
20/02/06 13:25 |
37531 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I am one of the rare creatures who can no longer call myself an information professional because my CILIP membership ... |
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Christine Riley |
21/02/06 15:43 |
37570 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Let's have another go at the relocation idea, while we're at it. It is not an adequate reply to "why ... |
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Atalanta |
28/02/06 09:36 |
37736 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I really do wish people - whether in membership or no longer - would remember that this collection DID NOT ... |
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Zena |
03/03/06 12:58 |
37853 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Dear Freepinters
I'm finding the discussion about CILIP membership very insightful - my thanks for that - but also very frustrating. ... |
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bob mckee |
15/02/06 13:08 |
37361 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | An aside as much as anything else, but there is a slight irony here that CILIP is inadvertently probably doing ... |
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Gareth |
22/02/06 08:16 |
37576 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I have to admit that I find Chartership confusing. Who exactly is it aimed at? I have experience of other ... |
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Philip Sidaway |
22/02/06 11:16 |
37579 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | For many professions the chartered/professional status is a legal requirement for doing the job. In others such as engineering, it ... |
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Elaine Wintle |
22/02/06 12:24 |
37581 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I agree with Elaine that the lack on an ongoing professional development requirement makes the chartership less effective as a ... |
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Linda |
22/02/06 14:00 |
37587 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Linda, The Insurance point you make is a good one. Corporate Goverance is high on the radar. Being listed on ... |
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Philip Sidaway |
22/02/06 15:15 |
37588 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | This reply comes over as extremely arrogant. Instead of dismissing all these reactions as "JUST NOT TRUE" , why ... |
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Atalanta |
17/02/06 13:01 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Bob,
First can I say thank you for joining the debate. I was getting rather worried that the thread was in ... |
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Gareth |
16/02/06 09:12 |
37393 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Thanks Gareth - particularly for saying that you want a stronger CILIP. I do believe (and I'm saying this as ... |
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bob mckee |
16/02/06 16:27 |
37406 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Having worked as solo in a corporate information service/library for over a decade I am very keen that CILIP promotes ... |
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Sarah |
17/02/06 17:11 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Dear FreePinters
Well this thread of discussion seems to be slowing down and has probably run its course. The one new ... |
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bob mckee |
02/03/06 14:38 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Bob,
I think that to say the thread has run has "probably run its course" isn't the whole story. Whilst ... |
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Gareth |
02/03/06 17:22 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Gareth
I take your point but I think it's now time for me, as CEO of CILIP, to carry forward this ... |
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bob mckee |
03/03/06 11:59 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I have just opened an envelope received today from CILIP. It contains 'Manifestos of candidates for National Councillor' and ... |
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Sue Bishop |
03/03/06 17:38 |
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pat money |
23/02/06 23:27 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I've just been catching up with the postings made in the last few days. The thread of discussion about the ... |
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bob mckee |
22/02/06 18:37 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | It is interesting to see the discussions about CILIP. In market research we have similar issues about representation with our ... |
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Paul Hutchings |
17/02/06 12:34 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I renewed my membership of CILIP last year having let it lapse about seven years previously when the nature of ... |
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Huw Pritchard |
21/02/06 11:44 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I find all the CILIP postings very interesting.
I was a member, when I was a student, but am no ... |
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Fiona Palmar |
21/02/06 11:20 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Bob -- Forgive me, I have to say that was a strange response. Basically your position appears to be 'we ... |
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Philip Sidaway |
15/02/06 14:00 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Philip
I'm sorry you found it a strange response - what do others think? But I'm absolutely with you on the ... |
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bob mckee |
15/02/06 14:15 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Bob -- (Apologies for turning this into the Bob & Philip show!). How long has Cilip (LA) been around? Why ... |
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Philip Sidaway |
15/02/06 14:28 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Philip - you're right: any generic professional body seeking to cover a whole employment sector is likely to have a ... |
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bob mckee |
16/02/06 16:15 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Having been a student member for some years whilst completing a part-time MSc, with a view to registering for Chartership, ... |
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Chris Evans |
14/02/06 15:15 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I am stunned by the responses to this thread, but I am in agreement of much of what has been ... |
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Jane Macoustra |
10/02/06 18:05 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Good for you. I couldn't have put it better. Without CILIP we have no real status or support.
Pat |
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Pat Money |
15/02/06 00:02 |
37338 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I am not convinced with the thesis that Cilip should continue because there is nothing to replace it. Is Chartership ... |
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Philip Sidaway |
14/02/06 12:52 |
37306 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | My name (as the editor of Update) has come up a number of times, and I have been following last ... |
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Elspeth Hyams |
13/02/06 10:44 |
37252 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Glad you have come out battling for CILIP. It gives us an accaepted status- based of course on becoming chartered. ... |
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Pat Money |
15/02/06 00:10 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I guess two of the fundemental questions underlying this debate are: 1) does chartership mean anything? 2) do CILIP give ... |
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Gareth |
15/02/06 08:23 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Elspeth. I read many articles, like the ones you say you cannot obtain, in other information journals. 'The Truth is ... |
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Philip Sidaway |
14/02/06 10:17 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I have to say that the point Philip makes did occur to me. Whilst I don't doubt that it isn't ... |
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Gareth |
14/02/06 11:41 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | |
Gareth is right. You would have expected a robust defence from CILIP senior managers to what is a quite fundamental ... |
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Allan Foster |
14/02/06 12:04 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | How interesting to see this discussion here. Every year I debate whether to renew, and almost certainly wouldn’t if my ... |
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Mary |
10/02/06 16:57 |
37180 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | As a member of the LA & IIS, and now CILIP, over a long professional career (though never involved in ... |
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Allan Foster |
08/02/06 17:05 |
37108 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Good to see some old familiar names responding to this debate, and also good to see Bob in print. Little ... |
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Frances hendrix |
19/02/06 17:03 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Folks,
I note with interest the latest copy of Update (Jan/Feb 2006, p16-19) relates the financial difficulties facing CILIP as a ... |
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Rob |
08/02/06 13:38 |
37103 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | On the specific issue of demography: Many workplace information professionals have taken early retirement or left the profession because their ... |
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Katharine Schopflin |
10/02/06 18:03 |
37184 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | If CILIP has to save money, it should not be by redundancies. That way, CILIP risks providing for fewer ... |
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Atalanta |
09/02/06 09:38 |
37130 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | There is another point to be made here, Cilip doesn't do anything for public librarians either - except provide some ... |
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Mary Bradley |
13/02/06 08:46 |
37249 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I stopped being a member when IIS was merged in, (I opposed the merger originally) anticipating that the new CILIP ... |
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Gareth |
08/02/06 13:30 |
37102 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | I don't know whether to renew either. I used to think membership was useful because of the jobs listing, but ... |
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Hilary K |
08/02/06 12:37 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I also wonder each year whether to renew. I think I only do so for altruistic motives, believing that there ... |
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Elaine Wintle |
08/02/06 11:41 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | I have never been a member of CILIP, though I was a student member of the LA (I was young ... |
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Philip Sidaway |
08/02/06 10:45 |
37093 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | Many thanks for such a timely discussion ! I am a qualified librarian (pg dip) of 25 years and , ... |
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Gail Rogers |
16/02/06 08:23 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Tempting, isn't it, to save the money? Depends on your plans for the future, I suppose.
If you are sure ... |
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Atalanta |
08/02/06 09:29 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | 3 cheers for CILIP
What an interesting thread! I've been observing for days and I am still taken aback by some ... |
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Shaun |
25/02/06 11:16 |
37673 |
| | Re: CILIP membership | | On the question of moving out of London: a sure-fire way of becoming more relevant to members and engaging with ... |
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Lyndon Pugh |
06/03/06 17:24 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership Attn: Shaun | | Shaun,
I'd be very grateful if you'd contact me at rachel.middleton@cilip.org.uk (something I'd like to discuss with you).
Many apologies for responding ... |
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Rachel Middleton |
03/03/06 16:07 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Australia and New Zealand have a very explicit way of appreciation:- "Good on yer mate"
Pat |
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Pat Money |
01/03/06 04:41 |
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| | Re: CILIP membership | | Oh dear. I was going to stay out of this debate, because I'm tired of beating my head against the ... |
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Diana Nutting |
08/02/06 13:08 |
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