All the correspondence on the benefits or not of chartering surely underline
ever more clearly that there is an apparently unbridgeable gulf between the
perceptions of the world of academic & public librarianship and that of
commercial information acience. Yes, we are all one organisation now, and yes,
we are all (we hope) working towards a common goal of excellence in information
& library science - but we simply can't pretend these two disparate stances do
not exist. I very much hope that CILIP will be brave enough to meet this
head-on, and work towards offering members (and employers) the qualifications
appropriate to their elective areas of work - even if it should prove necessary
to offer two separate types of qualification for the commercial and the
non-commercial worlds. It takes a lot of courage - I hope CILIP has the will to
face this reality.
Oriole
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