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CILIP's qualifications allow people with all kinds of career backgrounds to make the most of their chosen profession.

Our flexible and rigorous approach provides the opportunity to demonstrate your learning, and show you have applied valuable knowledge and skills in your workplace.

What are the benefits?

  • Improve your career prospects
  • Demonstrate your commitment to Continuing Professional Development
  • Develop your evaluative and professional skills
  • Clearly demonstrate your professional excellence to employers

What's special about a CILIP qualification?

  • Flexible: Being portfolio based means you can fit gaining a CILIP qualification into your working and personal life.
  • Universal: Demonstrate how you have applied knowledge and skills in your workplace, whatever sector you work in.
  • Unique: The only library and information qualifications awarded by a Chartered Institute.
  • Open: Three levels of qualification provide everyone employed in the library and information sector with a route to professional status.
  • Supportive: Get help and support from your personal Mentor. 


    The Seal of Recognition gives the assurance that short courses and training will be relevant to the information profession and may be included in portfolios of professional development.

Read the Qualifications Blog and follow Qualifications on Twitter. You can contact the Qualifications and Professional Development team on 020 7255 0610 or quals@cilip.org.uk



 



Credit transfer and credit rating

Find out how you can use Chartership and Fellowship to gain credits on university courses through Open University validation.

ACLIP Certification has been successfully credit rated by the Scottish Qualification Authority. Using the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF), Certification has been credit rated at Level 8, with 20 credit points allowing holders of the ACLIP to maximize their opportunities to transfer these general credits to other qualifications.

This will aid employers recruiting the right people for their jobs and will help candidates assess their level of learning.

 

Did you know?

You can apply for Chartership whether you are a new professional or have been practising for years. Because it's a professional development qualification it's designed to fit your career.

 

Reading

CILIP's qualifications are all based on assembling a portfolio. Margaret Watson's book Building Your CILIP portfolio brings together the views of candidates and experts to help you make a successful application.

 
 
 
Last modified on: 09/01/2012 12:07 PM