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Librarians hold summit with CILIP

03.04.08 Tom Tivnan

School librarians held a summit meeting with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) last week to air their concerns about the growing number of non-professional school librarians.

The School Libraries Summit saw 20 librarians from across England and Wales meet with CILIP officials, following a 2007 Booktrust survey that found just 42% of secondary school libraries in -England were managed by full-time chartered librarians.

Guy Daniels, CILIP director of policy and advocacy, said: "It's a clerical assistant type of model where we have a large number of librarians with no experience or training. The emphasis of the summit was to provide school librarians with the skills to influence employers and head teachers."

The first step to combat the rise in non-professional school librarians is the launch of a microsite at www.cilip.org.uk/schoolsummit with information for school librarians.

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