October 2007 - Posts

31 October 2007
We, the people

This blog is supposed to give you an insight into what’s on my desk – and perhaps it should also tell you something about what’s on my mind (so long as it’s CILIP-related of course – otherwise that really would take me down the vanity publishing route!). Read More...

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30 October 2007
The vital thread – paint job, or sustainable future?

Reading changes lives – and libraries are central to the process of promoting and fostering reading. That was the key message, for me, of the Conference held on 24 October to presage the National Year of Reading 2008 (NYR) [see www.literacytrust.org.uk/NYR/index.html Read More...

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Filed under: reader development

 

30 October 2007
gym’n slim

I’m told (by those who know) that the idea of this blog is for me to tell you something about the stuff that crosses my desk – on the assumption, of course, that you’re interested. One thing which is currently preoccupying me at my desk and beyond is Read More...

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29 October 2007
Once upon a time ….

….. is, of course (amongst other things), the first line of Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone . There seems to be a lot of Dylan around at the moment which is fine for those of us who grew up with him and remember when he (a) was a genuinely radical poet Read More...

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Filed under: values, advocacy, principles

 

29 October 2007
what price professionalism?

When I got the job at Ridgmount Street (just over eight years ago, in September 1999), I was very keen to see professional qualifications at the centre of our professional community. Since then, we've worked hard to develop CILIP's Framework of Qualifications Read More...

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Filed under: qualifications, professionalism

 

29 October 2007
every picture tells a story

A blog needs a photo of the blogger - or so I'm told by those who know. Well, the office has a million photos of me - a splendid chap called Martin comes round from time to time to take snaps of the CILIP staff - but the question is: which one to use? Read More...

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29 October 2007
Green Ink

Is a blog just an e-form of vanity publishing? It's probably because I'm getting older but I tend to think of blogs either as the electronic version of those letters written in green ink sent by deranged or obsessed saddoes, or as the electronic equivalent Read More...

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