Wired Professional Development: New Librarians Connect Through the Web

ABSTRACT

Taking advantage of professional development opportunities is imperative for new academic librarians. Even if not a position requirement, continuing education and professional involvement have the potential to inspire and improve job performance. While online resources should not replace traditional professional development experiences such as conferences, they can certainly provide additional ways to develop skills and expertise. Connecting with other librarians electronically through listservs, virtual conferences, and other online opportunities can make such involvement more accessible for new professionals.     

COIL on Wheels: A Library Professional Development Roadshow

Professional development for instruction librarians is in danger of coming to a standstill in difficult economic times. COIL on Wheels is a professional development roadshow developed by the Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians to allow librarians with budget and staffing issues to benefit from peer training. By matching member librarian interests with institutional needs, librarians can visit institutions in their geographic area to provide their colleagues with low-cost or free training. This article discusses the origins of and rationale for this program and describes a successful implementation of this traveling professional development project.     

图书馆员职业化建设新思考:内涵、困境及其路径

图书馆员职业化是图书馆行业获得持续、稳定发展并实行标准化管理的基本前提。由于种种原因,我国图书馆员职业化建设还刚刚起步,有必要从我国的实情出发,明确我国图书馆员职业化的科学内涵,分析推进此项工作可能遇到的困境,寻找到可行的路径。     

请重视并保管好你的档案

前不久发生了这样一个案例：1965年就从部队复员被分配到某单位工作的安先生，在1985年1月向单位提出了辞职申请，第二天单位就同意并批准了他的辞职申请。安先生虽然辞了职，但当时并未意识到自己的档案在今后会涉及什么问题，所以就未及时将他的档案由原单位转出。2003年当安先生达到了法定退休年龄时，从社会保险经办机构和户口所在街道办事处均未找到自己的档案。因为没有档案，他无法办理各种保险也无法领取养老保险金。为此，安先生将原单位起诉到法院，称他辞职后因单位一直未转档案，     

Continuing Professional Development in Kuwaiti Academic Libraries

This study investigates the current state of continuing professional development activities for information professionals in academic libraries, as well as their perceptions of the value of different continuing professional development activities. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 63 librarians and information professionals working at five Kuwaiti academic libraries, located in two public and three private universities. The findings of the study revealed that, generally, information professionals in academic libraries are of the opinion that they possess personal and professional skills that enable them to serve library users. Moreover, continuing professional development activities and programs are perceived as important for developing a professional workforce and maintaining professional competence.     

图书馆职业开发系统研究

图书馆员在职业中的成长与发展,直接关系到工作效益的提高和图书馆服务质量的改善,如何使图书馆员的成长与组织目标相配合是人力资源开发的重要议题。文章分析了图书馆员的职业发展模式,并设计了能够融合馆员个人发展目的和组织发展目的职业开发系统。     

ALA、LA、JLA图书馆职业资格制度之比较分析与启示

在介绍和比较分析ALA、LA、JLA及我国台湾地区图书馆职业资格制度的基础上,针对目前我国图书馆界存在的人才短缺、人才外流情况,结合我国部分省市出台的图书馆法规、条例中关于图书馆人员任用的规定,提出建立我国图书馆职业资 格制度的建议。     

Shaping Up: Boot Camp and Other Programs Addressing Professional Development Needs of Science Librarians

Scientists work collaboratively with online tools, relying almost exclusively on online resources and sharing publications freely online while generating and utilizing large datasets. As a result, librarians charged with providing services to the scientific community face both opportunities and challenges in keeping up in this electronic, digital environment. To meet these challenges, library leaders from the five campuses of the University of Massachusetts System established an on-going e-Science initiative. This initiative focuses on increasing awareness and understanding of the principles of e-Science while improving general knowledge within different scientific disciplines. Programs of varying lengths and focus provide local and affordable professional development opportunities that improve the working librarian's ability to better serve scientific researchers and students.     

New to health sciences librarianship: strategies,tips, and tricks

Three new librarians highlight their varied pathways into health sciences librarianship and offer insight into how they are navigating the challenges and successes of being new to the profession. The authors define a new health sciences librarian as a person who has fewer than five years of experience in health sciences librarianship specifically, having either recently graduated from library school or entered the health sciences from another type of librarianship. Jamia Williams speaks about her journey from new MLS graduate to health science librarian; Kelsa Bartley details her transition from library professional to health science librarian; and Jahala Simuel shares her experiences moving from academic librarian to health science librarian. This commentary provides strategies, tips, and tricks that new health sciences librarians may use to hone their craft and explore opportunities for professional development.     

Case Study: Online Continuing Education for New Librarians

Continuing education is vital for new librarians to gain skills and knowledge beyond library school. Professional development offered free in an online environment is often the best option for staying current on the issues and trends necessary for young librarians to grow and flourish. This paper presents a case study of an online professional development series for new librarians implemented by the Online Programs Committee of the American Library Association's New Members Round Table.     

Developing Professional Services Staff to Enhance The Student Experience

This article outlines how cultural change was achieved for enhancing the student experience. The engagement and development of staff and a model of partnership is presented that delivered new services and developments. The change is disclosed from a staff development perspective including an examination of differentiation and what makes a good facilitator. The relevance of the facilitator's own continuing professional development is considered before reflecting on the authors’ delivery of a conference workshop in the north west of England to promote the techniques. It is hoped that the reader will critique the approach and embrace elements for their own practice.     

适合于构建个人数字图书馆的全文数据库软件评析

本文给出了个人数字图书馆的定义 ,简单说明了构造个人数字图书馆所需软件应具备的基本性能 ,介绍了 8种适合构建个人数字图书馆的全文数据库管理软件 ,并对它们进行了详细测试与评价 ,给出了评价结果。最后指出 ,从软件性能角度讲 ,构建个人数字图书馆的时代已经到来。     

Doing It All: First Year Challenges for New Academic Reference Librarians

ABSTRACT

The article suggests ways in which new academic reference librarians can carve out a niche within the larger field of librarian-ship. The author recommends that these new professionals first identify areas of specialization within their departments, which they can later extend to their libraries, colleges or universities, communities, state, region, and nation.     

From Model of Reality to Practical Tool: An Aid to Reference Librarians and Library Managers

This article explores how a model that represents the thoughts and actions of a school librarian responding to clients’ inquiries can be used in the creation of a framework to either promote reflection among intermediaries on their own practice or afford a means of evaluating a library’s reference service. Against a background of pertinent studies by Taylor and Kuhlthau, this article traces how the proposed strategy initially developed from a typology addressing the ways adults seek to meet young people’s requests for information and outlines issues for consideration by professionals intent on using the framework in their own organizations.     

Build Your Program by Building Your Team: Inclusively Transforming Services,Staffing and Spaces

ABSTRACT

User feedback told the story of the largest and busiest campus library being dated in both physical form and programmatic function. Under the framework of a newly-developed strategic plan, library leadership initiated a comprehensive and inclusive assessment program to understand fully user needs by engaging users, campus partners, and, importantly, library personnel. Simultaneously, they embarked on a review of change management literature for guidance on implementing the required transformation. Informed by the change management philosophy of John Kotter, the library utilized the findings of the assessment program to craft and implement a sustainable transformation of its services, staffing, and spaces.     

The Role of Administrators in Professional Development: Considerations for Facilitating Learning Among Academic Librarians

The role that administrators should take in enabling professional development is regularly discussed in the library literature. However, this article, seeking to provide information from a new perspective, stems from data gathered via qualitative interviews in order to explore experiences of academic librarians and to identify commonalities among the experiences that participants describe as meaningful. Themes that emerge relate to the balance between administrative suggestions versus mandates, librarians' desire to self-assess and self-select activities, the importance of job relevance, approaches to sharing information, and barriers to participation. They may offer insights to administrators who wish to facilitate continuing education of staff.     

Virtual and Valued: A Review of the Successes (and a Few Failures) of the Creation,Implementation, and Evaluation of an Inaugural Virtual Conference and Monthly Webinars

Planning and implementing online professional development opportunities is challenging but attainable. This paper explains how a group of librarians from different institutions worked to plan, market, implement, and evaluate monthly webinars as well as an inaugural online conference, despite never meeting in person. The web conferences began in-state and grew to include presenters and attendees from across the nation. A review of available web-conferencing technologies will be provided, including free and open-source options. This paper includes details about the planning process, including subcommittee collaborations, social media marketing, and day-of logistics. Failures during event planning and execution—and tips to avoid them—will be discussed, as well as next steps looking forward.     

Lassoing the Licensing Beast: How Electronic Resources Librarians Can Build Competency and Advocate for Wrangling Electronic Content Licensing

The role electronic resources librarians (ERLs) have in licensing electronic content is the most relevant in the breadth of an ERLs core responsibilities. While ERLs are rarely lawyers in addition to being librarians, the role they play in educating stakeholders, negotiating with publishers and vendors, and crafting understanding of licensing terms is integral for the success of a rapidly growing and changing electronic collections environment. Often, new ERLs have to learn these skills on the job. Discussed are tools and resources for new ERLs to build their electronic content licensing competency and insight on how to educate to advocate for the ERLs role in licensing.