Useful Contacts

Professional Bodies

Employment Matters

Professional Bodies and Special Interest Groups

We are members of most the organisations listed below and we encourage you all to get involved and support our profession.

• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) including specialist interest groups such as:
  • Career Development Group (CDG)
  • Government Information Group (GIG)
  • Health Libraries Group (HLG)
  • Commercial, Legal Scientific Information Group (CLSIG)
  • UK eInformation Group (UKeiG)


• Archives & Records Association (ARA)
• Association of Law Librarians in Central England (ALLICE)
• The Association for Information Management (ASLIB)
• Arts Libraries Society, UK & Ireland (ARLIS)
• Bristol Legal Librarians (BRILL)
• British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL)
• City Information Group (CIG)
• Information & Records Management Society (IRMS)
• Liverpool Legal Information Group (LLIG)
• Manchester Legal Information Group (MLIG)
• Market Research Society (MRS)
• Network of Government Library and Information Specialists (NGLIS)
• The Pharmaceutical Information and Pharmacovigilance Association (PIPA)
• Scottish Law Librarians Group (SLLG)
• Scottish Health Information Network (SHINE)
• Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL)
• Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)
• Society of Indexers
  
• Special Libraries Association (SLA)
  
• Special Libraries Association Europe (SLA-Europe)
• Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)

Have we overlooked any Special Interest Groups? We are always keen to learn about additional groups.

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Employment Matters

Find out more about your employment rights and laws governing working in the UK.

• Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)
• Directgov - Employment
• Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) - Workers' Guidance
• HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) - Employees
• Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)
• UK Border Agency (UKBA) - Working in the UK
• Worksmart from the TUC

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