Having finally looked at the press release for the "proposed new name",
the thing that leapt out at me was that the strapline:

The Chartered Institute for the Knowledge Professions

would make a decent name, and the new name:

Information & Library Professionals UK

would make a decent strapline!

Has anyone seriously suggested this? (Robert Clayton, below, came close
with his suggestion of a working name.)

Would it be worth putting forward such an amendment to the AGM motion?

John Briggs

On 02/08/2013 11:06, Tom Roper wrote:
> Though our North American medical library colleagues have no problem
> with calling themselves the Medical Library Association.
> Has anyone else noted the puzzling plural in the proposed strapline,
> /The Chartered Institute for the knowledge professions/
> Surely we are one profession, though we may manifest variously as
> librarians, knowledge managers, etc etc.
>
>
> On 2 August 2013 10:45, Frances Hendrix <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>  > You are right, and one can think of many more examples., it’s a good
> idea,
>  > but our colleges who are not public librarians but work in Law firms,
>  > Medical associations etc could do with a better name than LA, but not
> ILPUK!
>  >
>  > f
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > From: Library and Information Professionals
>  > [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Robert Clayton
>  > Sent: 02 August 2013 10:28
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>  > Subject: Re: New name for CILIP
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>  >
>  >
>  > Organisations can have working names for aspects of their activities.
>  Comic
>  > Relief isn't a charity, for example, it is the trading name of an
>  > organisation called Charity Projects.  English Heritage is actually the
>  > Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England.  We (yes, I am a
>  > member) could use the Library Association as a working name if we wished,
>  > regardless of the title of the organisation.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > I don't think ILPUK is any significant improvement over CILIP.  It
> certainly
>  > isn't easier to say, which is supposed to have been one of the
> reasons for a
>  > change.
>  >
>  >
>  >
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