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CILIP LOGO LAUNCHED

Brand new identity for unified library and information organisation

Today saw the launch of the new logo for CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.  The logo will identify the new organisation to come into being from 1 April, following the unification of the Library Association and the Institute of Information Scientists.

Details of the new logo, together with design guidelines and a CD-ROM containing versions of the logo in various different technical formats, were presented at a meeting of Members representing the two current organisations’ Branches and Special Interest Groups.  In addition, all Members are being sent a special CILIP Preview newsletter, reporting progress on the final stages of unification.

"Unification represents a great opportunity for the new organisation, its Groups, Branches and Organisations in Liaison," say the design guidelines that will be made available to everyone entitled to use the CILIP logo on their own stationery, publicity material, publications and Websites.  "To take maximum advantage of that opportunity, we must have a strong brand to help us get our messages out."

CILIP’s logo will start appearing on the organisation’s output from April 1, and there will be special versions of the logo for the home nations.  Two further new brands will be launched at the same time – Update (CILIP’s monthly magazine, which will replace the IIS’s Inform and the LA’s Record), and Facet Publishing, the successor to LA Publishing.  The LA’s recruitment agency INFOmatch will retain its existing identity after unification.  CILIP’s Web address will be www.cilip.org.uk and its general email address will be info@cilip.org.uk.

Editors who would like electronic versions of the new CILIP logo to illustrate news items and features are invited to contact:
Tim Owen, Head of External Relations.
Tel: 020 7255 0652.
E-mail: Tim.Owen@la-hq.org.uk

Notes to Editors

CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals will be the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers, with around 24,000 members working in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government departments and agencies, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries.

CILIP’s goals will be to: position the profession at the heart of the information revolution; develop and enhance the role and skills of all its Members; present and champion those skills, together with new ones which will be acquired through continuing professional development; and ensure that individuals, enterprises and not for profit organisations have ready and timely access to the information they need.

Wednesday 23 January 2002