North West
Welcome to the web site for the North West (NW) Branch of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
Areas covered: Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire and Isle of Man. The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Bury, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, St Helens, Salford, Sefton, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan and Wirral. The non-metropolitan districts of Blackburn, Darwen, Blackpool, Halton and Warrington.
Our aim is to support CILIP in its mission to:
- set, maintain, monitor and promote standards of excellence in the creation, management, exploitation and sharing of information and knowledge resources;
- support the principle of equality of access to information, ideas and works of the imagination which it affirms is fundamental to a thriving economy, democracy, culture and civilisation;
- enable its Members to achieve and maintain the highest professional standards in all aspects of delivering an information service, both for the professional and the public good.