March 2009 - Posts

27 March 2009
Toasting our professional future

Thoughts from this week (in a few words more than 140 characters): Monday. Enjoyed facilitating a gathering at Ridgmount Street drawn from all of the 41 clusters that make up the CILIP family: Groups, Branches, Devolved Nations, Affiliates, Retired Members. Thoughts: what a marvellously kaleidoscopic... Read More...

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20 March 2009
Tell it like it is

Thanks for the comments and questions in response to my last couple of postings - and thanks to my colleagues for responding on qualifications (Mike) and training courses (John). Let me offer a few responses myself: On membership. Alan is right that there's been an increase in information roles in recent... Read More...

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15 March 2009
Tom, all alone?

Welcome Tom! I think you're the first person to post to my blog who's not a Member of CILIP - other than the interesting array of dubious postings I've had to delete over the weekend in my role as moderator! Tom's posting is attached to my "All of a Twitter" posting if you want to read it. Whoops, sorry... Read More...

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04 March 2009
Yes, let’s try that!

First, in following up All of a Twitter , let’s clear up a misunderstanding. That “simple answer” paragraph (“If it happens in a CILIP-sanctioned space, it’s official; if it happens down the pub or in someone else’s space, it isn’t.”) was intended to provoke debate, not to dismiss the value of social... Read More...

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