IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group will hold the second session of the 2015 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations” on July 30. This session will explore LIS PhD programs as an option for students thinking about or currently in an LIS graduate program.

For the fourth consecutive year, CPDWL is collaborating with the American Library Association to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, library associations and library schools, library-decision makers, and all library workers. This is a great opportunity for membership participation via new worldwide online programming. Our speakers come from different regions of the world.

For more information, please go to https://npsig.wordpress.com/webinars-2/upcoming-webinars/. Please contact Bridgette Hendrix bridgette.hendrix@gmail.com for registration information.

Highlights include an introduction to new CPDWL Standing Committee members, additional details about the CPDWL satellite meeting in Cape Town on ‘Taking Charge of Your LIS Career’, a report on the CPDWL and NPISG (New Professionals) webinars, and a thoughtful article on the challenges for librarians in participatory digital libraries. June 2015 CPDWL Newsletter

For the 4th consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group has partnered with the American Library Association (ALA) to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, library associations and library schools, library-decision makers, and all library workers. This is a great opportunity for membership participation via new worldwide online programming.
The latest session, held April 16 titled “Making the Leap to Library Leadership” is designed both for people who have been called upon to serve a leadership role and those who wish to take on more leadership responsibility. The session outlines essential skills for twenty-first century library leaders and helps participants gain a deeper understanding of their own role, as well as that of their department and library, within the larger picture of their umbrella organization. Topics such as emotional intelligence, professional comportment, understanding organizational culture, change management and intellectual agility are covered in a practical, non-theoretical way. This webinar is designed to be a small taste of what is offered at such institutes so that participants can begin to chart a course for personal leadership development.
Please contact Loida Garcia-Febo (loidagarciafebo@gmail.com), Series Coordinator for questions and requests for information.
You can find a link to the recording of this webinar at: http://ala.adobeconnect.com/p19s5bcnhrh/

The IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning satellite meeting, “Taking Charge of Your LIS Career: Personal Strategies, Institutional Programs, Strong Libraries” will take place August 12-14, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa prior to the World Library and Information Conference and is currently taking registrations. Please join us to learn as well as share your stories. Registration can be found at https://iflasatellitemilnerton2015.wordpress.com/registration/ For more information, please contact Ewa Stenberg at ewa.stenberg@mah.se

CPDWL has a healthy membership. On December 31^st the section had 85 registered members. There were 16 Standing Committee members and 4 Corresponding members.

CPDWL has had a strong connection with the Knowledge Management Standing Committee over the years. In 2014, there was a Satellite conference in Lyon organized by CPDWL and KM titled “Knowledge Management as a vital tool for Change Management” on August 15^th 2014.

CPDWL also partnered with KM and the Library and Research Services standing committees on a program titled “Learning Challenges for Librarians and Library Managers: A Knowledge Cafe“ during the IFLA conference in Lyon. The session was very well attended. During the session, attendees were given the opportunity to choose from a number of topics such as team building, team leadership, mentoring and coaching, staff training, etc. Moderators of each table managed the discussion. A rapporteur at each table gave a short summary of the main topics at the end of the session and also wrote a summary for the CPDWL blog so colleagues who were not able to participate in Lyon had the chance to follow the program details afterwards.

For the third consecutive year, CPDWL and the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group partnered with the American Library Association to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, library associations and library schools, library-decision makers, and all library workers. The webinars are a great opportunity for membership participation via new worldwide online programming. The series title is: “New Librarians Global Connection: Best practices, models and recommendations.“ In October 2014, for the first time, series of seven webinars in Spanish and Portuguese were attended by 1769 participants.

Plans are also underway for the 2015 CPDWL Satellite conference in Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa. The program “Taking charge of your LIS career: Personal strategies, institutional programs, strong libraries” will cover workshops, lectures, poster presentations etc. and will include the key initiatives of IFLA, the Trend Report and the Lyon declaration.

In addition, CPDWL will have a Satellite conference in 2016 in the United States, too. An organizing group is working on the program.

One last sad note is that Linden Fairbain, one of our standing committee members, passed away. We have happy memories of how positive Linden always was and her dedication to the library profession. We will miss her very much.

For more information, the CPDWL 2014 Annual Report is published on the website of CPDWL.

CPDWL 2014 Annual Report

To see what CPDWL has been up to in 2014, please take a look at CPDWL Annual Report 2014