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Chartership

04 May

Posted at 11:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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On completion of my Chartership, having had such an excellent mentor (a CILIP Mentor of the Year no less!), I knew I wanted to mentor other candidates myself. I completed the CILIP mentor training, which I found really interesting (I particularly welcomed the focus on a coaching approach to mentoring rather than a focus on the CILIP Professional Registration process), and soon found myself with some willing mentees. Everyone works at a different pace, so some of my mentees are taking a longer term approach, but my first mentee submitted her portfolio last month so I thought I'd share my...

21 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. The final stage in the Revalidation process is to put together your CPD log and supporting statement, and submit it. This is all done via the CILIP VLE. If you've been recording your CPD throughout the year in the CPD log in CILIP Portfolio (see my post on Recording your CPD), and have your supporting statement written (see my post on Writing your supporting statement) this stage won't take long at all.

20 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. There are two parts to CILIP Revalidation; your log of CPD activities, and your supporting statement. The supporting statement is your opportunity to explain and reflect on your CPD activities. You only have 250 words, so you have to be fairly concise.

19 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. The first part of Revalidation is completing 20 hours of professional development, or CPD (Continuing Professional Development) as it's commonly referred to. The guidelines suggest that this would be on a roughly annual basis, though it may take slightly longer (or a lot less!).

18 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="aligncenter" width="575"] CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips[/caption] Earlier this year I successfully revalidated my CILIP Chartership. Having been involved in developing the new scheme for CILIP Professional Registration (which incorporates Certification, Chartership, Fellowship, and Revalidation) during my part-time secondment at CILIP last year, I was keen to put what I had learnt into practice and test whether Revalidation was as straight forward as we'd hoped. I spent quite a bit of time examining Revalidation in other professional organisations, and it was evident that the previous version of CILIP Revalidation was much more involved than comparators. The message from member feedback (which also...

31 Dec

Posted at 17:00h in Chartership, Productivity, Professional Organisations, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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It's that time of year again - time to reflect on the activities of the previous 12 months (see 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 posts). Here are some of my highlights from 2012: [caption id="attachment_2105" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 2012 highlights in pictures[/caption] Top: My Emerging Leaders project group with ALA NMRT President (Janel Kinlaw, far left) and Past President (Linda Crook, far right) Bottom left: CILIP Chartership certificate Bottom centre: CILIP West Midlands Chair medal Bottom right: Productivity and time management article Professionally, one of the main things this year has been CILIP Chartership. I started the process early in the year, submitted my portfolio in August,...

05 Nov

Posted at 10:00h in Chartership, Events, Technology by
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As I've now successfully completed my CILIP Chartership, I won't be scheduling any more chartership chats as they've served their purpose for me. Since submitting my portfolio, I've had a few people ask me when the next one will be - it can be whenever you want one! I wanted to ensure people knew how to set one up so that going forward, candidates can continue to schedule these chats if they find them useful. [caption id="attachment_2075" align="alignright" width="128"] Twitter icon from Iconfinder[/caption] Why #chartership chat? We all learn in different ways, and seek support from different methods. For me, chartership chat on...

23 Oct

Posted at 10:15h in Chartership, Library, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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OK, I've not actually become Scottish (though the name does have quite a nice ring to it!). In actual fact the capitalisation should really be MCLIP - I recently received confirmation that I have passed my CILIP Chartership. This now means I'm a bona fide chartered information professional and have therefore achieved the goal I set out to when I declared at my graduate trainee interview in August 2005 that I wanted to study for my MSc in Library and Information Studies and then go on to charter (hmm, maybe I do plan things after all!). I posted earlier some initial...

10 Sep

Posted at 09:10h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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I've recently submitted my CILIP Chartership portfolio and thought it would be worthwhile to share my experiences - what I liked, what I disliked, what I plan to continue, and my advice to others. First a brief overview of my process: October 2011 - initial investigation into Chartership (discussions on Twitter and in person), found a mentor willing to mentor me virtually. November 2011 - attended a one day Chartership course hosted by CILIP Career Development Group West Midlands. December 2011 - registered for Chartership and set up wiki for progress reporting and mentor communication. Created first version of PPDP (Personal Professional Development Plan). January-August...

06 Aug

Posted at 10:00h in Chartership, Leadership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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I've always been interested in knowing more about the governance of professional organisations such as Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and American Library Association (ALA). I like to know how decisions are made and the structure of the organisation so that I can work out where I best fit and how I can help move things forward. I've been involved in the following ways so far to help me begin to get my head around this: Organised and chaired the first CILIP Election Hustings in November 2010 (on behalf of CILIP West Midlands) Attended CILIP AGM 2011 Been involved in committee...