I understand that CILIP was actually offered a chance to talk on Newsnight the other day. I’ve always been of the opinion that CILIP should make more effort to push itself into the media, to publicise and stand-up for the…
Phil Bradley on CILIP in 2020
Phil Bradley has written a long “a stream of thought” post on how he would like to see CILIP looking in ten years’ time. I’m not sure how much I agree with a lot of it, but it is interesting…
CILIP has RSS feed for job vacancies
Finally, CILIP has RSS feeds for its Lisjobnet library vacancies service! Hurrah! Although the RSS Jobs Feed page still has the title Temporary Librarian Jobs RSS Feed and text saying LIS Jobs Temps uses this technology to update you with…
Grappling with web 2.0 by holding a large formal meeting
The UK library world (at least online) today seems obsessed by the debate/session being held at CILIP today to discuss the organisation’s involvement with web 2.0, mostly centered on CILIP’s failure to engage with anything like Twitter, Facebook, open blogs…
Twittering about CILIP
Bob McGee (chief executive of CILIP) asks if CILIP should get involved with Twitter. Phil Bradley answers in no uncertain terms. My own comment on the matter can be found on Phil Bradley’s post (together with a further plug for…
Criticism of CILIP
There have been a number of recent posts debating, and in some cases criticising, CILIP and why one would join or become a chartered member: In CILIP: What is it good for?, Information Overlord asked if you’re a member, why…
CILIP advocacy
After using the word advocacy a lot (but being rather shy about it), it seems that CILIP are actually going to do some public advocacy of the library profession and support the quality of the public library service. They have…
CILIP on Second Life
After all my criticisms of CILIP not embracing new information technology, in particular RSS feeds, they went and opened an office in Second Life. Ian Snowley (IanSnowley Allen), CILIP president, explains how he gave the inaugural address at the office…
CILIP Lisjobnet RSS feed
I have now created an RSS feed for library jobs presented at CILIP’s Lisjobnet vacancies site: subscribe to http://www.aurochs.org/internet/blogging/ciliprss.php. As I’ve said before, I am amazed that the professional organisation representing those who are meant to be at the forefront…
Professional and non-professional librarians
Tim Coates has written a post suggesting that the distinction between professional and non-professional librarians should be abandoned, something I am whole-heartedly in favour of. He argues this from a public-library standpoint and with two main observations: That the librarians…