It's more likely that the employer isn't aware of what a fully qualified
information professional can do. A professional standard should give a
guarantee that a qualified person can perform to that standard, and
therefore give better value for money. That is the advantage for the
employer.
Regards
Margaret
Margaret Rowley
Head of Knowledge Management
Worcestershire Health ICT Services
Rowlands Library
Charles Hastings Education Centre
Worcestershire Royal Hospital
Charles Hastings Way
WORCESTER
WR7 1DD
-----Original Message-----
From: Chartered Library and Information Professionals
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kevin Symonds
Sent: 15 August 2006 14:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: what makes a professional?
Katharine Schopflin
>I think this underlines one of the failures of professional
representation in library and information work. Why do so many employers
feel comfortable hiring people to do information work who aren't
qualified,
never mind not members of CILIP? Why don't they know about it? Who isn't
doing enough to tell them?<
Well it could be said that if the 'unqualified' people are doing the job
that they were hired to do what difference does it make to the employer
if
they are a member of CILIP?
After all it's not like they'd have to pay them anymore if they were or
less if they weren't, it could just be based on experience and ability
in
the job at hand. And that could be achieved totally separately from
CILIP
and it's structure of continuing development.
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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