CILIP
The UK professional body for library and information work, formed in 2002 when the Institute of Information Scientists merged with the Library Association information-scientist-wikipedia.
The Institute had been founded in London in 1958 and set the formal criteria for information scientists — a role it defined explicitly as distinct from librarianship. The 2002 merger closed that distinction from the other end.
Read alongside asist, which took the opposite path in the US: the American Documentation Institute renamed itself into information-science in 1968 and stayed separate from library associations. Two national bodies, the same forty-year period, opposite answers on whether information work is its own profession.
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