... the submission. Margaret   Watson . Building Your Portfolio: The CILIP Guide . London : Facet Publishing   2010 . 160 pp.   £29.95 , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐714‐2 2nd ed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Information management Professional associations Library...

.... Originality/value The paper presents a personal viewpoint related to a modern responsibility that the profession should be aware of. David McMenemy can be contacted at: david.mcmenemy@cis.strath.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Libraries Information services Professional...

... of their professional association in this country. Design/methodology/approach An opinion piece based on a brief and selective conference report from the 2007 American Library Association conference held in Washington DC. Findings Newly qualified professionals in the UK may well find good models for reshaping...

... of Technologies. Practical implications The focus of this paper is on the practical aspects of making professional associations function more successfully. Originality/value Recommendations are made for carefully planned public relations programs to be carried out by leveraging convergence technologies...

... into how a national professional association is uniquely positioned to support professional status and encourage job opportunities by forward‐looking policy formulation and cross‐sectoral leadership, in particular in the area of information literacy. Originality/value An attempt to validate...

...Beverly P. Lynch Advocating Libraries: Essays Presented to Robert Craig . Hamilton : Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals   2002 . , ISBN: 095411602X   £14.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Libraries Professional associations...

... UP Limited 2000 Public libraries Professional associations Librarians Library services History Although the movement for public libraries, supported by state funds, was essentially an invention of North West England in particular, long before it became global and worldwide...

...K.C. Harrison Edited by Joy   Thomas . The Role of Professional Associations . Urbana‐Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science   1997 . $75.00 Library Trends, Vol. 46 No. 2, pp. 229‐425 ns Professional associations...