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Subject: FW: CILIP Council endorses action report on information for health
News from CILIP
Tuesday 21 December 2004
For immediate release (Please copy to online discussion lists)
CILIP Council endorses action report on information for health
Health Executive Advisory Group sets out new direction for CILIP with
implications for entire profession
The governing Council of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals has unanimously endorsed a report, specially
commissioned from its Health Executive Advisory Group (HEAG), to advise the
Institute on the role and activities it should pursue within the healthcare
sector and beyond.
'Future Proofing the Profession' warns that, if the information profession
is to survive and prosper, then a radical realignment of priorities and
activities is required in the support that CILIP gives its members as they
move into the new types of roles being created in information. "What
distinguishes health from the rest of the profession is that these
challenges and opportunities are with us now," Dr Judith Palmer, Chair of
the HEAG, comments. "Therefore their successful resolution in healthcare
would be a useful proving ground for action in the rest of the profession."
Among its ten recommendations, the Group calls on CILIP to seek partners to
engage in horizon scanning, consider giving greater emphasis to continuing
professional development in health information and other specialist sectors,
and take a lead in the development of a clear research strategy. It also
calls for strategies to support emerging leaders in the profession and
analyse the skills deployed by role models. Changes in CILIP's training and
development and course accreditation activities will be needed, the Group
suggests, and it also urges the Institute to be more aggressive in its
advocacy and leadership on the profession's behalf with a greater role for
its specialist interest groups such as the Health Libraries Group
"To support the new information professional, CILIP must... consider
different ways to influence and promote the profession to employers and the
public, and to educate and support Institute members through career
trajectories that are radically different to those of the past," the report
concludes. "On the one hand we must ensure that the knowledge base of
existing members is continually updated and on the other we must attract to
membership new and differently trained individuals."
"I am pleased that CILIP Council has endorsed the report so
enthusiastically, but now is the time for action," Judith Palmer challenges.
This point was echoed in the debate at Council and Bob McKee, Chief
Executive of CILIP, will be advising on how the recommendations in the
report can be incorporated into the new Corporate Plan that CILIP is
developing for 2005-8.
The full text of 'Future Proofing the Profession', the report of the CILIP
Health Executive Advisory Group is available on the web at:
www.cilip.org.uk/professionalguidance/health.
Contact: Tim Buckley Owen, Head of Membership, Marketing & Media.
Tel: 020 7255 0652
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Notes to Editors
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is
the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and
knowledge managers, with around 23,000 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. For more information about
CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk.
Set up early in 2003, the HEAG's core group was chaired by Dr Judith Palmer
(Keeper of Scientific Books at the Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford
University), and included Anne Brice (Specialist Libraries Development
Manager at the National electronic Library for Health), Jackie Lord (Head of
Library & Information Services at the Royal College of Nursing and Chair of
CILIP's Health Libraries Group), National Health Service Library Adviser
Veronica Fraser, and Guy Daines (Head of Policy & Governance at CILIP).
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