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ILIP President, Kate Robinson, joins us as a regular contributor to Information Professional for 2022.
The theme for her Presidential year is Workforce Development and she has a longstanding commitment to this both in her career and in her voluntary activities. She is a CILIP Mentor, was an Assessor for Professional Registration (PR) for 20 years, Vice-Chair of the Professional Registration and Accreditation Board from 2011 and Chair from 2013-2020. Kate led the 2019/20 comprehensive review of PR for CILIP to ensure its best fit for member needs and value for employers and she now chairs CILIP’s newly established Sector Development Committee. Kate has worked in librarianship posts across the public, private and corporate sectors before finding her niche in academia, where she is now University Librarian at the University of Bath. She has served on a number of executive boards and has held other senior leadership positions, including Chair of Governors for a local school, lecturer and dissertation supervisor in Information and Library Management and Justice of the Peace.
Kate hopes that her Presidential year will provide a catalyst to reinforce recognition of our profession through PR and our refreshed PKSB; Expertise as we celebrate and support our profession and our professionalism; Community through our discussions and debates; Representation to ensure our work is recognised by others.
Message from the President Looking back at the January/February 2021 Information Professional I was struck by how, on the surface, we seem to be in the same situation that Paul Corney found himself in when writing his first column as President. Paul writes of his quiet Christmas and a sense of looking forward, but with uncertainty, to what the coming year may bring. He wonders what the ‘new normal’ will look like and sets out an ambitious programme of engagement with others around the profession of debates, conversations and musings. Those of you who, like me, have followed these
January-February 2022
At the heart of our profession are our ethics and these are also central to our refreshed Professional Knowledge and Skills Base.
inspiring activities will have benefited from insights and reflections about ourselves and our profession. These and other events mean we are not in the same situation. We have moved on, taking the opportunity to share, to reflect and to make plans. While we are still in a period of change and uncertainty, opportunities to talk, to debate and to consider have been invaluable and have, I think, reinforced the camaraderie of being part of a profession, where we are ‘in it together’.
It is this sense of professionalism that has been very much on my mind this last year and how who we are predicates what we do and how we adapt to the new norms, as they become an established part of life. I think CILIP’s new inclusive definition of professionalism1
moves us away
from silos and offers us an open and diversified professional community that truly values and recognises our expertise. At the heart of our profession are our ethics and these are also central to our refreshed Professional Knowledge and Skills Base. The PKSB is our sector skills standard and our updated PKSB makes our current and future skills explicit and recognises the increasing importance of skills in data, information and knowledge management and computational sense. I have been lucky enough to be involved with Professional Registration (PR) for many years, engaging with it
An information professional:
l Places ethics at the centre of their work
l Delivers quality information services
l Champions the profession and its societal benefit
l Has evidenced formally recognised knowledge
l Applies their knowledge & ethics in practice
l Is reflective about their practice l Aspires to excellence l Develops and maintains their skills l Supports their colleagues
l Engages with the professional community
l Leads at all levels and instigates positive change
Kate Robinson (
president@cilip.org.uk) is President of CILIP.
www.cilip.org.uk/
myself throughout my career and as an assessor, where I had the privilege to read truly inspiring portfolios of the professional journeys of others, from right across our profession.
As we share and reflect on the last year and look to the future, I hope we can all make use of the online PKSB tool for ourselves and within our organisations, using it to assess our skills against the standard, to identify strengths and weaknesses and create our own tailored CPD plans.
I am delighted that PR is now firmly placed within the governance and strategy of the future of CILIP, with the new Sector Development Committee creating a direct link from PR to CILIP’s Board. I was honoured to be asked to lead this Committee to bring together PR, Apprenticeships, accreditation and vocational qualifications and for the Committee to provide leadership and advice on the development of our professional standards to support a new Workforce Strategy and looking internationally where appropriate to build alliances and secure recognition of our work.
So these are the areas that will be my focus for the coming year and I hope that we will work together through events such as the Big Conversation, #WeAreCILIP and the Ideas Platform2 as a whole community to inform the overarching Strategy for the next five years, with Workforce Strategy playing a key part. I am so pleased to be taking on the role of President this year and very much looking forward to finding and creating opportunities where we can come together to think about our skills and our future and to share our professional journeys alongside our ideas and ambitions for CILIP. IP
References
1 Professionalism Definition – CILIP: the library and information association
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http://www.cilip.org.uk/wearecilip INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL 17
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