Your path to success – CILIP benefits at-a-glance As an individual member of CILIP, you benefit from:
l Being part of a thriving professional community l A platform to get involved and shape change in the profession l Representation by the sector’s leading independent voice l Nation-specific representation in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland l Opportunities for networking with senior leaders l World-leading professional recognition l 40+ specialist networks offering authoritative advice and expertise l Skills and career planning tools l Opportunities for leadership & career progression l Quality-assured training and CPD l Information Professional Jobs, the leading platform for sector vacancies l A regular high-quality magazine l Online and in-person events and activities l Grants and bursaries to cover your costs l The assurance of access to the CILIP Benevolent Fund
Our support helps thousands of information professionals every year to earn more, develop their skills and find their next opportunity. Visit
www.cilip.org.uk/page/BecomeaMember to find out what we can do for you.
landscape, developing the right portfo- lio of skills, evidence and experience to demonstrate your value to current and future employers while retaining a sense of ‘who you are’ as a professional.
Many sectors, one profession Information professionals are increas- ingly an ‘embedded’ workforce, in much the same way as finance or IT specialists. Our members work across every industry sector, from local government to schools, colleges and universities, from private enterprise to specialist historical collec- tions.
What unites our professional communi- ty is the skills and values we bring to our work – captured in a sector skills stand- ard called the ‘Professional Knowledge and Skills Base’ (PKSB –
www.cilip.org.uk/ PKSB), which CILIP maintains on behalf of the profession.
As an ‘umbrella’ professional associa- tion representing members in more than 20 industry sectors, CILIP can offer our members unparalleled access to insight and opportunities across the whole profession. Interested in making a career move into a new sector? Want to develop your skills, for example in digital or data? Got a question to put to the community? We can help!
Be part of our CILIP Community When you become a member of CILIP, you join the information profession’s biggest and most active professional community of practice.
Members in Scotland, Wales and North- ern Ireland benefit from representation
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and support uniquely tailored to their national context. Through our partnership with CILIP in Scotland and our National Committees, CILIP Cymru Wales and CILIP Ireland, we can ensure that you are able to access a professional network, advice, training and support that is relevant to your circumstances.
In England, our Regional Member Networks ensure that wherever you work you’re never far from an inclusive, welcom- ing community of professional practitioners that understand your local and regional context.
Across the UK, CILIP supports more than 20 Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) repre- senting different industry sectors, areas of professional practice or subject disciplines. These SIG’s are the ‘powerhouse’ of our community, ensuring that whatever your question, we can connect you to an experi- ence professional who is willing to help. Even outside the UK, CILIP has an incredibly active community of 900+ members working overseas. We aim to represent and support our international members through our engagement with IFLA and bi-lateral partnerships with library organisations in their country or region.
Maintaining professional standards CILIP is proud to be the only Chartered Institute representing information profes- sionals in all sectors since 1898. Our Charter gives us a mandate to main- tain professional standards, scrutinise and improve information-related legislation and to recognise information professionals via our public Register of Practitioners.
It’s a role we take very seriously. Our work as a professional standards body is overseen by a Sector Development Committee (SDC), which reports directly to the CILIP Board. Recently, under the leadership of the SDC, we have introduced a new Apprenticeship Pathway and accompanying standard for sector employers (
www.cilip.org.uk/Appren- ticeships), helping us to do more than ever to open the profession to new and diverse talent.
Advance your career with Professional Registration
CILIP is the leading provider of professional recognition and certification through our ‘Professional Registration’ scheme. We offer three levels of professional regis- tration – Certification, Chartership and Fellowship – tailored to your needs and career stage. The process involves an evi- dence-based portfolio that you can submit online and you do not need to hold a LIS qualification (or any qualification) to apply. Find out how becoming a Registered Professional can help you in your career at
www.cilip.org.uk/ProfessionalRegistration, and on p. 42 of this issue.
We have also taken the additional step of validating our professional services with the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), ensuring parity with other credit-bearing recognition schemes.
Professional Registration with CILIP is an excellent way to evidence your profession- alism, your ethics and your commitment to maintaining your skills. Time and again, our Professional Registration Scheme has been selected by employers as the ‘gold standard’ in professional certification, with a proven impact on salary and career progression.
Tackling the structural challenges in our profession CILIP is a Charity under the terms of our Royal Charter, which means we are com- mitted to the advancement of society and the public benefit – including addressing some of the structural and systemic chal- lenges for our profession. The 2015 Workforce Mapping (
www.cilip.
org.uk/WorkforceMapping) which CILIP led with the Archives and Records Association (ARA) found evidence of deep inequalities in our profession. In addition to a signifi- cant under-representation of people from BAME and other marginalised communities in our profession, we highlighted the lack of women in senior leadership roles (despite being a predominantly female profession) and serious gender pay disparity. Since then, we have organised ourselves through our Changing Lives manifesto (
www.cilip.org.uk/ChangingLives) to take action to change this picture. We want to become a platform that empowers and amplifies the work of our members in
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