I don't understand what you think chartership is- it seems like you're
comparing it to an exam in "librarianship" that we have to pass? All being
chartered is is a recognition that we have done enough CPD to satisfy our
professional body- the actual courses I go on and articles I read will
probably be very different to a law librarian but as long as we reflect on
our own practice enough, etc, we get the qualification. It's pretty much the
opposite of "revalidation of the same", it *depends* on us changing (for the
better)!
Jennifer
E. J. Rees wrote:
Rowena :
This is why I said in prev. emails we should have different STRANDS for
chartership - I have very clear ideas of what I want to achieve (whether I
get there or not is a different matter) but I know by now that, given the
choice, I have no interest in public libraries, in law or health (as a
whole) and I am leaning heavily towards new media -
We are all bundled into a bag and labelled "chartership" candidates, when
the disparity seems to me each month more obvious - and now the movement to
"requalify" seems to be gathering momentum, even when there are serious
complaints it seems about the relevance of chartersing in the first place.
I am a total qualification junkie but even I see that there is no point in
revalidation of the SAME !!! It seems to be a life sentence !!!
Read the first hundred years of the LA - the same topics are recursive with
the exception that in the past there was some dialogue LA > AUT > University
of London -
I don't CARE if it goes now CILIP > BILL GATES > UUK - as long as we are
not all the time so inward looking !!!
Emilce
>From: Rowena Macrae-Gibson
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: consume
>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:14:34 +0100
>
>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"
>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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