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  • Friends in high places

    We all need them and luckily we’ve got friends at the National Library of Scotland. They’re hosting our portfolio building session for Chartership, Certification and Revalidation candidates and their mentors (thanks Chris Taylor and Paul Hambelton). The Candidate Support Officers who normally run these events are all volunteers so sometimes there can be gaps while new volunteers put themselves...

  • Who needs a swingometer?

    With the promise of sandwiches, I joined my colleagues for the great Trustee election count. There's no story-line tension here, the results have been posted and you can see the successful candidates here . The counters, made up of CILIP staff, sit down at tables piled high with unopened envelopes. Scrutineers check our counting and make sure we follow laid down process. First we count in tens...
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  • The new look website

    We’ve got a new look website. What do you think? The Web Team (and all the departments’ web editors) have worked hard on this project. New versions of anything can take getting used to, but I think the immediate benefits are that the left hand navigation is very clear, allowing writers to de-clutter the body of the text of links. And I like the fact that we’ve got more landscape type...

  • Mentors get together

    Arranged by Ferelith Hordon and Catherine Phillpotts, this evening was a chance for mentors in London and the South East (or at least anyone who could get to Ridgmount Street) to talk about how best to mentor CILIP candidates. Catherine had prepared a sheet with some topics which had come up on discussion lists: word count – keep it to 1,000 words not counting headings and footnotes—; what...

  • CILIP Wales Annual General Meeting

    Familiar faces at the Wales AGM on Wednesday: Mandy Powell, the CILIP Wales Development Officer, Pat Duxbury who is the Candidate Support Officer in South Wales (whose successful event I blogged about earlier in the year) and our very own Edwina Smart (soon to be CILIP Councillor and very active member of the Chartership Board). The other face I recognized was from Ridgmount St, Bob McKee , the CILIP...
 
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