Tag: chartership

  • CILIP’s draft Body of Professional Knowledge and Skills

    As part of their Future Skills Project, CILIP has recently invited members to feed back on the first draft of the revised Body of Professional Knowledge and Skills. I have already submitted my comments using the online form, but I thought it would be useful to spend a little longer reviewing the document. The proposed…

  • Collaborating on creative work

    Last month I spent some time working on a creative project, with the aim of producing promotional materials to publicise the library at an upcoming Plymouth University event. Nothing particularly unusual there – this was within the realms of my fairly open role. What is interesting about it is that despite a really tight deadline…

  • Reflections of an analytic mind

    Some months ago I blogged about my take on reflective practice. Since then I have been doing a lot of thinking around the topic, mostly because I have started to put together my CILIP Chartership portfolio and demonstrating that I am a reflective practitioner is a key part of the process. After staring at several…

  • CILIP Career Development Group National Conference: ‘The Practical Professional’

    Today I attended the CDG National Conference in Bristol. It was a small but very well organised event, which mostly ran like clockwork. Congratulations to the organisers! Apparently the presentations will be available from the event website at the end of the week so, rather than doing a session-by-session review,  I thought I’d focus on…