Ooops! I meant 'these ones!'
Any other spelling mistakes are there to test you....
--On 19 June 2002 11:49 +0100 Martin David Kelleher
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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