CILIP North West Member Network Blog

I am currently a second-year university student at the University of Central Lancashire studying English Language and Linguistics.  As part of an employability project, I decided to research librarianship because I am interested in becoming an academic subject librarian. After interviewing the academic librarians at my university to learn more about their roles and employment history, I was directed to the CILIP North West Library Careers Virtual webinar that was held on the 23rd of April. This was a great opportunity to learn about librarianship within different sectors.  Many of the discussions reflected notes I had made when interviewing the academic librarians. What I found most interesting was that there is such a wide variety of library roles available. It was advised that when looking for jobs, we should not restrict the search terms to "libraries" but also include words such as "knowledge/information/learning". This made sense to me as I was analysing a job

  On March 18th the CILIP North West Member network held our first online event. We had noticed that studying Library and Information Management seemed to be a popular topic and one of our blog posts about this had had lots of views;  https://cilipnwblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/studying-library-and-information.html This free event was hosted on the CILIP Zoom account and it was made available to CILIP members and non-members. 21 people attended from across the UK. We were very pleased to welcome three speakers who each gave a short presentation followed by a question and answer session.  Dr Geoff Walton,  Programme Leader for the MA Library & Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University Dr Geoff Walton opened the session by telling us about his own interesting career journey. This was followed by a very comprehensive presentation about the course at MMU. As well as covering the course content and how to apply, Geoff spoke about the placements that are available on the