CILIP's big conversation starts next month: http://communities.cilip.org.uk/forums/t/11176.aspx
We're stuck with the name, clearly. I hope that I am not the only one in our profession whose hackles rise at some of the crimes against the English language here.
'The conversation will be open to anyone interested in the Knowledge and Information domain.' When did we become a domain? I suppose the author thinks it sounds much more impressive than saying libraries and information services. And why put the K and the I in upper-case?
"The Conversation will surface and consider issues." How do you surface an issue, please?
"CILIP Council will synthesise issues from the conversation, then verify with members and wider stakeholders. " Poor issues, having been surfaced, they're now to be synthesised and exposed to these wider stakeholders. How wide, I wonder? I have a vision of portly peasants, armed with stakes, besieging Dracula's castle.
" CILIP Council will develop a roadmap." Of course they will. Nothing these days can possibly happen without a roadmap [sic...I would say road map should appear as two words, or perhaps should be hyphenated]. I suppose I should be grateful it isn't an overarching road map.
This is what happens when we spend too long with consultants, local and national politicians and their hangers-on and other riff-raff and not enough in the real world.
