> From: Tim Buckley Owen
> Sent: 15 April 2003 17:53
> Subject: CILIP BACKS INFORMATION AND LEARNING AS WAY FORWARD FOR SKILLS TRAINING
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> MEDIA RELEASE
> Tuesday 15 April 2003
> For immediate release
> CILIP BACKS INFORMATION AND LEARNING AS WAY FORWARD FOR SKILLS TRAINING
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> Information & Learning Communities Skills Council proposal overwhelmingly preferred over Creative and Cultural Industries alternative
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> By a large majority, the governing Council of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals voted today to support proposals for an Information & Learning Communities Skills Council to encompass the skills and training needs of the whole library and information sector. Most Council members showed a clear preference to this approach over one that would have aligned the library and information profession with the cultural and creative industries.
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> Under Government plans, more than 70 National Training Organisations will be replaced by a much smaller number of new Sector Skills Councils. They will produce labour market and skills intelligence, to help identify workforce development needs and to influence the supply of skills education and training.
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> CILIP will now make its support for the information and learning approach known to the Government> '> s Sector Skills Development Agency, the body responsible for implementing the new infrastructure.
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> In a debate that recognised shortcomings in both the rival proposals, most speakers believed that the interests not only of CILIP but also of the library and information profession as a whole would be better served by not being associated exclusively with arts, crafts, design, museums, galleries and heritage. In the view of Council, this represented an unacceptably narrow definition of the library and information community.
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> Some Councillors highlighted the synergy that existed between public libraries and cultural services in many areas of the country, but the majority view was that the information and learning approach would serve the needs of actual and potential CILIP members working in industry and commerce, education, government or health information much better. The proposed Information and Learning Communities Skills Council will cover the UK workforce in the areas of: information and knowledge management; information support to formal learning; community and workforce learning and development; and informal lifelong learning.
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> Contact: Tim Buckley Owen, Head of External Relations.
> Tel: 020 7255 0652. Email: [log in to unmask]
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> Notes to Editors
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> CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers, with over 23,500 members working in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries.
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> CILIP> '> s goals are to: position the profession at the heart of the information revolution; develop and enhance the role and skills of all its Members; present and champion those skills, together with new ones which will be acquired through continuing professional development; and ensure that individuals, enterprises and not for profit organisations have ready and timely access to the information they need.
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> Tim Buckley Owen, Head of External Relations
> CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
> 7 Ridgmount St, London WC1E 7AE.
> Direct line: +44 (0)20 7255 0652
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> Looking for library and information consultants? Contact CILIP Consultancy Services for experienced consultants who understand information - > www.cilip.org.uk/consultancy <http://www.cilip.org.uk/consultancy>.
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> CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE, UK.
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0677
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