CPDWL Blog
Inspiring information professionals write about continuing professional development and workplace learning in order to build strong librarians and libraries for the future!
Writer: Jarkko Rikkilä, coordinator, Tampere City Library – Regional Development Task, Finland “It’s times like these you learn to… evaluate again!” In today’s world every librarian should have the basic skills recognizing and evaluating misinformation. The changing media atmosphere and information advocacy affect to the librarian competence. Multiliteracy is essential […]
Read full post…We are proud to present the fourth session of the 2014 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.” http://www.ifla.org/node/6141. The theme for this installment of our series is “Information as a Human Right”. For the third consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest […]
Read full post…New content uploaded! 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, […]
Read full post…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 […]
Read full post…by Roisin Gwyer, Ruth Stubbings, Ruth & Graham (Eds.) Series: IFLA Publications Series 157 Publisher: Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2012 Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship – as well as for academic study – for all of us living in today’s information society. This international […]
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