Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) is a leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers: they provide practical support for members throughout their careers and speak out on behalf of the profession.

CILIP’s stated mission is to set, maintain, monitor and promote standards of excellence in the creation, management, exploitation and sharing of information and knowledge resources. It also seeks to 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. CILIP wishes to ensure that it can 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.

Their corporate goals centre on community, advocacy and workforce development: CILIP state their aims as looking to provide activism and enterprise to build their community, a strong voice to advance their profession, and modern professionalism to develop their workforce 

CILIP was one of 14 organisations with a direct stake in effective scholarly communications to endorse Research and the Scholarly communications process: Towards strategic goals for public policy, the statement of principles document RIN published in 2007, which the Policy Centre is supporting.