I'll happily comply with that request Liz. In the interests of full disclosure I've met John Dolan and Phil Bradley and they came across as having great personal integrity and commitment, I haven't met Tom or Frances. This doesn't necessarily make my comments biassed but it more points out the fact that CILIP now makes an effort to connect with early career librarians.
I've been in the profession for 6 years and can see real progress in CILIP. It urgently needed change and change is happening. Mistakes have been made but I feel they've been honest mistakes and have no reason to believe that people who give up their own time to advance the profession would have some kind of Machiavellian intent. I think some people have a problem with authority and it appears to be important to their make-up to set themselves up as rebels kicking against "the old guard" (whoever that might be). While I'm about it, Frances - please don't post so much, you have some interesting things to say but this is not your personal RSS feed.
Kind regards
Phil Jones
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