I agree with there ones! I was going to write a vast email debating the
whole thing, but on second thoughts, I think the whole things been pretty
much covered by now...
..but enough of that. Do we have to fork out for CPD as well?
I'm beginning to wonder whether CILIP is going to do anything other than
run us through an increasingly time-consuming/expensive set of tasks to
prove our worthiness for membership...
Charged (quite a lot) for membership, charged to charter... now charged to
remain chartered?
Martin Kelleher
--On 19 June 2002 10:54 +0100 Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I work in a law school where one of the courses taught is a conversion
> law degree for those whose first degree was in a subject other than law.
> Many lawyers come from backgrounds other than law and as far as I know
> employers prefer this since these people are more rounded individuals
> with awareness of a wider number of issues.
>
> I know we information professionals are not lawyers or doctors but I
> think all professions benefit equally from having people with different
> backgrounds. I have a lot of admiration for those who did undergraduate
> library and information studies degrees but I guess not all of us knew
> that we wanted to work in this sector when we first entered university.
>
>
> I think having a combination of 'hardcore' information professionals
> and converts from sociology, archaeology, science, history, english,
> etc. can only make us a richer and more interesting group.
>
>
> Dunia García-Ontiveros
> Assistant Librarian
> The College of Law
> 14 Store St.
> London
> WC1E 7DE
>
> Tel: 020 72911285
> Fax: 020 7291 1305
>
>>>> <[log in to unmask]> 06/19/02 10:18am >>>
> Unless specifically vocation-related, a first degree merely teaches you
> to
> conduct research in your own time and to meet deadlines. Post-grad
> degrees
> are "easy" because in order for Universities to continue to receive
> funding
> they have to be successful, especially in today's 'mature student'
> society.
>
> CPD at leastproves that you know about your profession and have
> developed
> your professional knowledge and awareness....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rowena Macrae-Gibson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 19 June 2002 10:15
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: consume
>
>
> Well for Library posts in academia or special libraries, your first
> degree
> may very well be relevant or required. Although not everyone will end
> up
> working with subjects that directly match their first degrees, subject
> knowledge is useful in many areas of the job, such as answering
> enquiries,
> liaising with academics, developing user education or managing stock.
>
> Besides, I didn't know that I was destined for the excitement that is
> Librarianship when I was filling in my UCCA form. ;-)
>
> Rowena
>
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:57:06 +0000 "E.S. Rees"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Rowena Macrae-Gibson
> Subject Liaison Librarian
> Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
> Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex. UB8 3PH
> tel: 01895 274000 ext2788
> fax: 01895 203264
> email: [log in to unmask]
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