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Andy

1. You are exceptional in having your sub paid. Some of us are squeaking ‘cause we can’t afford it from the household budget after years of professional practice.

2. The argument that “if we don’t do it someone else will” can be used to justify anything. The question is what message the professional body doing it sends out (broadly, I think, “treat graduates in our profession as badly as you like, we don’t mind”). You have to make a lot of noise in these situations to get a message across about professionalism. We don’t hear very much from CILIP.

 

Mike Morris, Librarian, ISCA

51 Banbury Rd., Oxford OX2 6PE 01865 274671

 

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From: Chartered Library and Information Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of ZELINGER, Andy
Sent: 15 February 2005 12:53
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Subject: Re: Gazette Feb 11th

 

I think this is an excellent suggestion. 

 

CILIP should be doing its utmost to encourage employers to offer decent salaries, but I think it is highly questionable as to whether refusing job advertisements would have any positive effect.  As Tony McSeán has pointed out, CILIP does not have a monopoly on advertising library posts - what is to stop the employers advertising elsewhere, thus reducing revenue that could be used for campaigning and member services?

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