Blog « LIS New Professional's Toolkit. I’ve been over at MMU again today, this time talking to the MA Library and Information Management students about the value of professional organisations. I always enjoy talking to new professionals. It leaves me feeling very energised, and optimistic about the future of the profession! As well as the slides above, I did 10 minutes on Voices for the Library, as they were unable to send a current member as rep to MMU this year. The group came up with some really interesting questions about professional organisations and campaigning which raised some good points I haven’t covered, so I’ll summarise some of the questions and my responses. Campaigning: why can’t people employed by local authorities campaign against them?
If you work for a local authority, it’s likely to be in your contract or conditions of employment that you’re not allowed to undertake any actions that might be a conflict of interest with your employers, or bring your employer into disrepute. Absolutely! Yes! Phil Bradley's weblog. To the Chair of a professional library interest group, I’m angry, depressed, sad and disappointed that I need to write this open letter to you. You sent a member of your group onto two courses that I ran, and the total cost was £198. I try and keep my costs as cheap as I can because I think making sure we have well trained and informed professionals is important.
My fee has been tightly worked out, and as an independent trainer it’s important that I get it right. I have to pay for my own National Insurance, I get no holiday pay, no sick pay and I have to pay for my own pension. That’s not a sob story, it’s just a fact, and I’m happy to pay that in order to live the life that I want. My invoices state that I wish to be paid within 30 days, and this is something that almost all of my clients are able to do without issue – sometimes within hours of receiving their invoice I’m paid.
If I don’t get paid inside my 30 days I’ve then got to decide what to do next. So, what should I do now? Organising Chaos. Information & Advice Blog. The UK economy is recovering from the deepest recession since the Second World War and this recovery has been slower than forecast. According to the latest figures from The Office for Budget Responsibility, the economy is predicted to shrink by 0.1 per cent in 2012. Chancellor George Osborne used his Autumn Statement , delivered last Wednesday, to announce a one year extension of the "era of austerity" to 2017-18. More bad news is promised in the spring as yet further cuts are set to be announced in the Spending Review, which has been brought forward to next year.
This is a bleak prognosis and it would be foolish not to expect LIS professionals working in all parts of the economy to feel the chill. But first for some of the potentially good news. But it will only be "good news" if we can make the connections with quality library and information services and make the case for getting some of the cash on offer. Growth areas include: But the core message was one of continuing austerity: Joeyanne Libraryanne. Public Libraries News. The Library Career Centre.