Would anyone from CILIP be able to confirm whether CILIP benefits
financially from the inserts?
While I am an active proponent of waste reduction and recycling, I don't
believe that CILIP should refuse revenue from such sources given the
precarious financial position of the organisation. This is with the
caveat that such inserts should not be advertising goods and services
that are considered generally unethical, and/or detrimental to our
profession by the CILIP membership. And in all seriousness I don't think
the David Nieper inserts come into these categories.
As for the idea of all CILIP communications becoming electronic, I still
find it preferable and more practical to read a paper copy of Update
(portability, easier on the eye etc.) Home internet access and PC
ownership is still far from universal. I wonder which has the greatest
environmental impact: the paper used for magazines or the electricity
used in keeping a computer switched on?
Andy Zelinger
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chartered Library and Information Professionals
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kevin Symonds
Sent: 13 May 2005 11:26
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Subject: Re: Why the David Nieper thread is relevant to this list
Jenny Delasalle
>I would like to see CILIP help us to reduce the waste. After all, that
>is the government's prefered way for us to deal with our waste!! <
If we want to get serious about reducing waste maybe all CILIP
communications should be electronic only? We would already have the
computers, monitors etc anyway so theres no need to buy extra equipment
and use up extra resources that way. Make them pdf's with the printing
option disabled to stop people printing pages off and using up paper.
Why add the jobs section in the paper version when we have
LisJobsnet.com? And anyway just how much paper are we all in this
profession responsible for? In my library I get a range of nearly 80
journals, weekly, monthly and quarterly, not to mention books,
newsletters, press cuttings etc. If we need to stand by a principle on
the environment maybe it's where the biggest usage is that needs
addressing, but I can't see that happening as only a very picky person
would say that is a solution (as there are so many cost, access and
archiving problems) but it's a point to be made.
As to making a decision on how choosy or not CILIP marketing has been
with inserts I'd say we have to wait to see what else might be coming
up, one swallow does not a summer make.
Kevin
Kevin Symonds
Librarian
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge
CB2 2EF
Tel: 01223 355294 ext 110
Fax: 01223 359062
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