The increase in % of new members recruited and decrease in % of loss of
members struck me as an example of "dead cat bounce". I suspect lapsed
members have rejoined and disillusioned members stayed in membership for
now, fearing redundancy as employers cut back library & information service
provision. The post-nominals do help to furnish a CV ...
John Dolan's quotation of selected % figures out of context does look
rather old-school Soviet Union to me.
Keith Patterson
Operations Manager
Libraries Management Team
Chester Lane Library
Four Acre Lane
St Helens WA9 4DE
tel: (01744) 677487
fax: (01744) 677114
From: CHARLES OPPENHEIM <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 21/06/2013 10:50
Subject: Re: CILIP re-brand: 'guest' entry on President's Blog claims
motion denies members choice
Sent by: Library and Information Professionals
<[log in to unmask]>
Seems to me that you, Caroline, should offer to write a guest blog in
response to Mr Dolan's.
Mr Dolan offers us various selected statistics from the survey, but without
seeing the full results one cannot comment on them.
An increase in the % of new members recruited, and a decrease in the % of
loss of members is meaningless without the actual figures being supplied.
I suspect that membership continues to decline.
Charles
Professor Charles Oppenheim
From: Caroline Moss-Gibbons <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, 21 June 2013, 10:39
Subject: CILIP re-brand: 'guest' entry on President's Blog claims motion
denies members choice
Dear All,
I am rather surprised by the negative tone of the 'guest' entry by John
Dolan on the CILIP President's Blog, and the conclusion he draws:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/news-media/Pages/news130620.aspx
Do read the whole thing (link above), but here are some extracts for
flavour.
[extract]
Vote for choice
...Motion to halt the rebrand will deny members choice
Over 100 members have signed in support of holding a General Meeting to
halt the rebrand, so this meeting will take place on the 8 July. I and
Council completely respect the members’ rights to call for this meeting.
But if a majority of members vote in favour of the motion, in favour of
halting the rebrand, then the right of all members to vote on a new brand
or keep CILIP will be lost. Members will be denied their right to decide on
this very important issue.
...I urge you to vote against the motion. If you vote for the motion you
will not get the choice of seeing the outcome of the work that has already
been done and deciding if it reflects your ambition for you as a member and
for the future of CILIP.
Vote against the motion and vote for choice.
[end extract]
I rather thought that by calling for the General Meeting the membership
have already 'voted for choice' rather than accept the expensive fait
accompli of a re-brand. The Motion calls for a halt to the re-brand in
order to focus on "the urgent tasks of advocacy for the profession."
A reminder of the Motion in full, with meeting details:
GENERAL MEETING:
[extract]
A General Meeting of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals will be held in the Ewart Room at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street,
London WC1E 7AE on Monday 8 July at 1.00 pm to discuss the motion:
“This General Meeting believes the current rebranding exercise should be
halted, believing it to be a distraction from the urgent tasks of advocacy
for the profession, and a waste of scarce resources.”
This meeting has been called and the motion submitted under Bye-law 22 by a
requisition of Individual Members of CILIP.
[end extract]
Full details of the meeting, and the online proxy form for those of you who
cannot attend in person are available on the CILIP website at:
http://www.cilip.org.uk/about-us/governance/pages/2013generalmeeting.aspx
Tom Roper, who kicked off the call for a General Meeting has already stated
that he is happy to be nominated as a proxy by members who cannot attend.
He posted his address details (needed for the proxy form) on this list,
and here they are again, for your ready reference:
Tom Roper
Clontarf
49 Southdown Road
Seaford
East Sussex
BN25 4PG
Best regards,
Caroline Moss-Gibbons
[Former Leader of Council]
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