CILIP North West Online Events in March and April 2021

CILIP North West Online Events Spring 2021

Studying Library and Information Management

Thursday, March 18, 2:00 PM

In this free online session Dr Geoff Walton, Programme Leader for the MA Library & Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, will talk about what the course covers, how to apply for it (including tips about how to do a good application) and the opportunities that the course can open up for individuals who want to become knowledge and library professionals. In addition a former student and a current student from the course will be coming along to discuss their experiences and share their tips for applying for the course. This event will be hosted on Zoom.

You can register for this event here

Library careers panel with CILIP NW

Friday 23 April 2021, 10:00-11:30

Join us for this free event which will showcase the variety of library roles across the North West. We’ll be joined by a panel of library colleagues from higher education, public libraries and health, who will introduce their role, their team and their organisation, before taking questions from the audience. We are delighted to welcome the following guests to the panel:

Zoe Collyer-Strutt, Wrexham Glyndwr University
Gil Young, Health Education England
Marg Charlesworth, Cheshire East Libraries
Sinead English, University Campus of Football Business (UCFB)
Anna Theis, University of Manchester
Alex Bamford, Cheshire Education Library Service

This session will be of interest to current and prospective library workers who are keen to learn about library roles beyond their own sector. It will be especially helpful to those working towards CILIP professional registration.

Contact Victoria.Treadway@nhs.net for more information.

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CILIP North West Careers Panel - Sinead English, Assistant Librarian, University of Football Business Etihad Campus

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