CILIP

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CILIPs New Framework of Qualifications

• Marion Huckle, Head, Membership Careers and
  Qualifications
• UC R NE AGM 25th November 2003

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CILIPs mission

• To
• Enable its members to achieve and maintain the
  highest professional standards in all aspects of
  delivering an information service, both for the
  professional and public good
• . through its work in education maintaining a
  framework of universally recognised
  qualifications and providing a wide range of
  opportunities for CPD

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Education, Enterprise, Advocacy

• Develop and enhance roles and skills of all its
  Members (Workforce development)
• Present and champion those skills (including the
  new skills which will be acquired through CPD)
• Position the profession at the heart of the
  information society

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Overview

• New Qualifications Framework
• Body of Professional Knowledge
• Education
• Certification Scheme
• Chartership
• Charter revalidation
• Fellowship
• Spectrum scheme
• Important features of the framework

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New Qualifications Framework

• Matrix flexible entry points and progression
  routes/pathways
• Based on CPD/lifelong learning
• Robust and rigorous qualifications framework
• All levels of achievement
• Certification
• New Chartership regulations
• Revalidation Scheme
• Fellowship

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Body of Professional Knowledge

• Think Tank meeting
• Not prescriptive mapping tool
• Outline of the Knowledge Base
• - Core areas (unique
• knowledge and skills)
• - Generic (transferable)
• - May overlap with other
• disciplines
• Further development

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Education

• New partnerships with other awarding bodies and
  training providers
• University Departments
• Range of courses
• Changes in delivery
• Lifelong learning
• Research
• Accreditation Board

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Certification

• Recognition of achievement
• Portfolio submission/Template
• Initial call for registration of interest from
  October 2004 from members with more than 5 years
  experience
• Two pathways
• Additional postnominals
• Progression route to Chartered Membership
• Assessment at local/regional level with effective
  quality control mechanisms

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Chartership

• Joint Working Party
• Contributions from stakeholders and partners
• Build on experience during the Transitional
  Period
• Accessible and appropriate for members worldwide
• Regulations and guidance notes to Council by July
  2004

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Charter revalidation (1)

• Benefits for individuals and employers
• Based on best practice
• Wide range of activities portfolio application
• Period of revalidation of between 3 and 5 years
• Initial assessment at local/regional level with
  effective quality control mechanisms

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Charter revalidation (2)

• New route to Fellowship
• Attract new members
• Overall, the LIS profession will demonstrate its
  commitment to continuous personal professional
  development, raising the status of the
  professional body to one which views its role in
  validation as a current dynamic activity, not one
  rooted in history.

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Fellowship

• Joint Working Party to devise and recommend
  hospitable but rigorous pathways to the highest
  level of professional qualification
• Likely to recommend a new route to Fellowship
  based on two successful cycles of revalidation
  linked to the criteria

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Spectrum scheme (1)

• CILIP s Corporate Plan committed the Chartered
  Institute to an examination of a feasibility
  scheme for library staff from black and minority
  ethnic backgrounds to enable them to study for
  professional and paraprofessional qualifications
  and to include mentoring and leadership training
  (similar to the American Library Association
  Spectrum initiative.

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Spectrum scheme (2)

• The aim of a scheme would be to encourage people
  from under represented groups within the UK
  community to be attracted to, and compete for,
  posts within the broad LIS sector, an area where
  they are currently under-represented.
• Activity is being coordinated by the Equal
  Opportunities and Diversity Panel
• Evidence gathering process
• - Sectoral brainstorms
• - Specialist Groups
• -Home Nations Forum
• Report early in 2004

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Important features

• More use of Regional Assessors and other
  experienced regionally based networks
• Recognition of work-based learning and other
  activities
• Encourage diversity and widen participation and
  access
• Mentoring
• Consultation

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New Qualifications Framework CPD
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