It seems a number of people are making a point of leaving the ALA (via and including Dorothea Salo). I have compiled a summary of the reasons why below. Apologies for any unintentional misrepresentation: Michael Gorman and the anti-technology, anti-progress…
Job advert
I saw the following job advertised by Bedfordshire County Council: Ref: EBCC940/EB/int Vacancy: Resources Assistant (Cataloguing) – Library Resources, County Hall Scale 1/2 �10,872 – �14,106 pa (provisional grade) Job Description: Bedfordshire Libraries Required to work 37 hours per week…
CILIP RSS feed working
It seems the CILIP RSS feed is working, although it seems this has been said before.
CILIP RSS feed
CILIP has a new RSS feed (via Library Stuff). It seems to be for news, although it is hard to tell as i) it isn’t working and ii) there is no link from the news pages. For an organisation whose…
Mr Quiet
I’ve just read Mr Quiet by Roger Hargreaves. The plot goes as follows (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS.): Mr Quiet lives in Loudland, where everyone shouts and bangs and no-one can hear Mr Quiet’s whispers. The unhappy Mr Quiet is invited to…
NHS recruitment
Librarywebbie makes the interesting point that librarians have been left out of the recent NHS recruitment campaign on TV and wonders if CILIP should be doing anything about it. On a vaguely related note, CILIP have released a report (summary…
Where is CILIP?
Librarywebbie comments on the Guardian article about Bangor University proposing to sack most of its professional library staff: Question is, why is there no mention on CILIP’s website? I hope they are lobbying strongly. I had the same thought last…
Why is CILIP?
I’ve always been intrigued as to why CILIP, the result of an act of union between the Library Association and the Institute of Information Scientists, is needed. I have never been a member and have no intention of becoming one.…
Libraries at number 50 in Best of British poll
Viz (no. 136, June/July 2004) has put Libraries at number 50 in its poll of every single person on the electoral roll of reasons to be proud to be British: Once dull, dusty, silent places full of boring books, libraries…
Specialised training for librarians
CILIP, aka the Library Association (LA), has a webpage detailing training available to its members and others on its lovely pink website. These ‘forthcoming workshops’ are divided into seven categories. What would you expect these to be, coming as they…