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Conference Proceedings – The Road to information Literacy : Librarians as Facilitators of Learning

 

A new paper has been added to the IFLA website (www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-publications-series-157 ).  The paper ‘Building an information literate research community’ is by Jayshree Mamtora who is Research Services Coordinator, Charles Darwin University, Australia and was presented at the Satellite Conference held this summer in Finland.  It is a case-study of how Charles Darwin University successfully built up their research support and how library staff were developed along the way to offer this support.

Research support is very topical currently as research funding becomes harder to get and as Open Access develops across the globe.  Developing the skills librarians need to support researchers’ information literacy development was one theme running through the conference, the Proceedings also include a paper by Clare Walker on this topic.

The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as Facilitators of Training

By Susan Schnuer

Talking, eating, and engagement were the main activities at the August Satellite meeting in Tampere.127 librarians from 21 countries attended the 2012 IFLA satellite meeting, a wonderful cross-section of ideas, cultures, and languages.  The satellite was co-sponsored by CPDWL and IL IFLA sections and it was successful cooperative effort.  This is the largest number of participants that CPDWL has ever had at a satellite meeting and in fact there was a waiting list.

Over 45 presentations were given during the meeting from librarians engaged in professional development and information literacy from all parts of the library sector: schools, public, academic, special, and LIS schools.  The variety of sessions and the amazing range of speakers made for a very engaging and yet intimate sessions.

OVERVIEW OF CPDWL ACTIVITIES IN HELSINKI, 2012

by Sylvia Piggott 

As usual, CPDWL had a full programme starting with the Satellite Conference in Tampere chaired by Susan Schnuer and Anne Letho.  A full report is available in the CPDWL Blog on  the IFLA site.

 

The Helsinki programme chaired by Sylvia Piggott was titled Libraries and librarians as forces for transformative change: continuing education the fuel and was held on Wednesday, August 15 from 9:30 to 11:30.  The session consisted of papers from several countries, namely:

Leadership for success in the digital world by Jennifer A. Younger, Ph.D  and : Janice Welburn, USA; Librarian continuing education based on third space: practice of Hangzhou Public Library, China by Yizhou WU and  Junming YAO, China; Leadership in times of change by Dr. Petra Düren, Germany; Information specialist influences when collaborating in a project

by Erja Huovila   and Kaisa Puttonen, Finland; Challenges for providing information to users in a multilingual university library: A case study of Punjabi University by Dr. Trishanjit Kaur, Professor and Ms. Navkiran Kaur, Assistant Professor, India; Building strong library communities, advocates, and leaders through library associations by Fiona Bradley, Netherlands.  The presentations provided information of various methods and delivery medium for continuing education and workplace learning. The session attracted close to 300 participants.  The full papers are available on the IFLA website as well as on the CPDWL site.

 

Singapore Conference Programs 2013 was discussed and a working title as well as some possible themes identified will guide us as we finalize this programme over the coming weeks.  The Standing Committee agreed that the session would be in workshop format.

 

Information Coordinator’s report by Catharina Isberg consisted of CPDWL future communication opportunities.  Catharina brought us up-to-date on all the possibilities of using social media available through established IFLA technology to communicate with our members.  There is now a CPDWL Blog available for use by all as well as Tweet facility.  A team of 3 lead by Catharina and assisted by Loida Garcia Febo and Juanita Jara De Sumar are collaborating on this effort.  You are invited to use these media to communicate with our members.  Catharina will provide help to get started when you are ready.

 

Finally, pleased by informed that Sylvia Piggott will, for this year, trade places with Ulrike Lang and is now the official Chair in keeping with IFLA requirements – IFLA only wants to have one person in the Chair position.  Ulrike and Sylvia, will however, continue as Co-Chairs for CPDWL internal operations.

About CPDWL (Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning)

The CPDWL Section embraces all aspects of professional development and learning in the workplace in the period post-qualification to the end of a career.

New developments and trends in information and communication technology, higher expectations of users, requirements of employers and managers of libraries and information service organisations and competition from information professionals in the broader information industry emphasize the imperative for associations and institutions to be ‘learning organisations’ and develop their staff by providing opportunities for continuing professional development and training in the workplace; and for individuals to be responsible for their own career planning and development.

Our membership engages institutions, organisations and individuals in a community of practice which supports practical and research-related activities within our area of subject expertise. The Section also brings together those who are interested in and responsible for the quality improvement of systems for delivering continuing professional development and workplace learning programs.

Have a look at http://www.ifla.org/en/cpdwl to find out more about our section work!