I think that we all need to remember that to obtain Chartership is not the
same as educational qualifications. In order to obtain Chartered status
(MCLIP) we have to do quite an amount of work and effort to bring ourselves
up to a higher professional status. Chartership must be earned above and
beyond educational and on the job training. The fact that our professional
organization promotes Chartership by telling employers that Chartered
members are "professional qualified applicants" is a very good thing.
Kayla Tomlinson, BA, MLS, MCLIP
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Kayla Tomlinson
Acquisitions Librarian
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton
Didcot, Oxon. OX11 0QX
tel. 01235 445941
fax. 01235 446403
-----Original Message-----
From: Oriole Newgass [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 August 2002 11:40
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CILIP Draft Corporate Plan
Tim, I think you may have been misled into believing that I am the only
person
whose record/membership card was wrong. From the correspondence I have been
receiving both on the LIS-CILIP site and individually it is becoming clear
that
people who were members ONLY of the IIS all transferred quite properly as
Chartered Members/MCLIPs, and that the anomaly I pointed out has happened
only
to people who were both MIInfSs and "ordinary members" of the LA before
unification.
I have now been told that the problem arose when the two membership
databases
were merged, and that it has now been rectified. I have also been offered a
new
membership card "if I would like" one! My query now must be how diligently
have the records been combed to find out how many members have suffered the
same
apparent "downgrading" and why were replacement membership cards not sent
out as
soon as the 'administrative error' was discovered? It would be
extraordinary if
mine was the only one (and very bad luck for CILIP that it should be me,
given
the message posted by Lyndsay Rees-Jones this morning). As it happens my
assistant has had exactly the same experience - another amazing coincidence
if
two members working in the same Information Centre were the only casualties
of
this error.
The rest of your posting explaining what CILIP is planning for the future
sadly
fails to address the monstrous insult to a great many information & library
professionals contained in the last line of the URGENT REMINDER TO
EMPLOYERS:
"....if you require professionally qualified applicants". Chartership is
not
the only professional qualification as I'm sure everyone at CILIP
recognises,
and in the current economic climate nobody in this profession needs
employers
dissuaded from considering their job applications - least of all by their
own
professional organisation from which they might have expected to receive
support
and assistance.
Oriole
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