Simon Edwards is the Director of Professional Services at CILIP. The document discusses how CILIP membership is an investment in one's professional future by providing future skills, a professional knowledge and skills base, accreditation of qualifications, and helping address concerns that the library profession may be fragmenting. It quotes Wayne Wiegand and David Lankes on how libraries must focus on their users and relationships rather than just collections.

1. Simon Edwards
Director of Professional Services
simon.edwards@cilip.org.uk
@SimonEdwards75
www.cilip.org.uk
CILIP membership: an investment in your professional future

2. CILIP membership: an investment in your professional future

3. Rather than see “the user in the life
of the library, we must see the
library in the life of the user’’
Wayne Wiegand
‘The future of libraries is not in our
collections or a building but in our
relationship with those we serve.
Libraries are knowledge hubs that
bring together the wisdom of the
community and share it with the
world. This is more than just a
rhetorical shift, it has real
implications for how libraries
organise themselves and how they
use technology.’
David Lankes
CILIP membership: an investment in your professional future

4. Future Skills
Professional Knowledge
and Skills Base
Accreditation of academic
and vocational qualifications
CILIP Qualifications
CILIP membership: an investment in your professional future

5. Is the profession fragmenting?
CILIP membership: an investment in your professional future