Professional Registration interview with Maria Nagle
In the second of our series of GKIM Professional Registration interviews, we talk to Maria Nagle. Maria became a Chartered Member of CILIP in 2023. She has worked in the Welsh Government for five years, most of these as Library Collections Manager. Her day-to-day work involves leading on cataloguing Welsh Government publications, collections management projects and LMS oversight. She currently lives in Swansea and has previously worked in public, academic and cathedral libraries. 1. Give us the context of your decision to pursue Professional Registration. What were you hoping to get out of the process? I signed up for Chartership when I was working in the public libraries sector in 2019 but didn’t get properly started until I started working in Welsh Government in 2020. I’d always intended to embark on the Chartership process – it seemed like a natural next step to take following qualification and embarking on a professional role. In all honesty, I think my decision at the time was pro...
