Building a Future Ready Profession by Christine Tate, CILIP North West New Professionals Support Officer
On 4th March 2019 the iSchool at Manchester Metropolitan University held an event for the students on their MA in Library and Information Management course. The theme for the day was ‘Building a Future Ready Profession’. Programme Leader Geoff Walton opened the day with a warm welcome. The first speaker David Stewart then took the floor and introduced the students to his role as CILIP President for 2019. David announced that from next September the iSchool will be launching a new health module that will help prepare students for working in this sector. Nick Poole and the history of CILIP Next up was Nick Poole who gave a presentation that covered the development of the profession, the origins of CILIP, the award of its Royal Charter in 1898, and the challenges and opportunities that we are now facing. Some of the changes highlighted included: · The changing population – the population is due to increase by 10.5% increase by 2030. As most of this increase will be in our urban centres we