INTERVIEW
Professional Registration: Chartership with Marlène Rak
Over the coming year we will be talking to CILIP Members who have undertaken Certification, Chartership, or Fellowship as they share their motivations and experience of Professional Registration. And in the first of our Professional Registration Journey Insight columns, Marlène Rak talks to Rob Green about her Chartership journey.
IN an increasingly competitive world, Professional Registration with CILIP can make a big difference. There are a multitude of reasons to start your professional registration journey – whether it is to help you stand out from the crowd when applying for new roles, demonstrating your knowledge and value to an employer, or as an act of self-reflection to help you plan your career.
Subject Support Librarian at the Univers- ity of the West England (UWE) Marlène Rak gained her Chartership in November 2023. She says that she was keen to look at how Professional Registration could help her develop, and signed up as soon as she took on her first professional role in a library.
She says: “I started working at UWE in March 2022; this is my first professional role in the library and information sector. A summer job as a library assistant at the Fine Art department (now the Art and Design Library) in Edinburgh is what originally attracted me to the profession. “Although I completed my library and information studies in 2009, I did not secure a professional role in this field until early 2022. I enrolled for Chartership at the same time, as I felt that it would assist my transition into this new position, whilst encouraging me to build new relationships and acquire new skills along the way.”
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Rob Green (
rob.green@
cilip.org.uk) is Editor of Information Professional
Marlène took the opportunity to explore existing training when she joined, saying: “Since joining UWE, I have attended several courses on developing my teaching skills. I particularly enjoyed the workshops on improvisation in teaching. “Showing honesty and flexibility in the classroom helps foster a more positive and inclusive approach to learning and these workshops demonstrated just that, whilst suggesting innovative ways to support this process.”
Professional Registration gave Marlène the opportunity to look at those learning opportunities and ensure they became
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