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November 21, 2007
LIS Education - SI Dean - Questions, Comments &Suggestions.
SI Dean Martha Pollack will speak at the April Forum meeting. Last Spring we invited SI faculty to come and tell us about the changes in the SI curriculum, the revamping of the Foundations courses and the addition of a number of new specializations. This set the stage for more connections between SI and the Library.
What advice would you give Martha Pollack, the new Dean of SI, on preparing new librarians for the next 5 to 10 years?
What would you like to know about the LIS program at SI?
What skills would you like to see in LIS graduates?
Suggest collaborative projects between SI and the University Library.
Posted by dlhodge at 02:55 PM | Comments (3)
Vision of the first library - if built today ...
If we were building the first library today, what would that library look like organizationally, what services would we provide, what would we not do, and how would this shape the competencies of the librarians?
(Would they be called librarians? Would it be called a library?)
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Implications for training and skill development in a changing libraray world
If you believe libraries/librarians are changing or needed to change, what are the implications for training and skill development?
Where should this training be attained? Who funds it?
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Kinds of jobs/roles in libraries in the near future
What kinds of jobs/roles do you think will exist or should exist in the future (5 or 10 years)?
What are the characteristics of that job and person in it?
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Skills Evolution
What skills do you think you will need over the next ten years? How do you plan to get them?
As the competencies for the profession evolve over the next five to ten years, will the type of people attracted to the profession change?
Are the competencies/skills needed for public, digital, technical, scholarly resource services the same or different? How are they the same or different?
For those librarians with ten years experience, think about what your duties and skills were when you first started. Tell us how you think that relates to what you do now in terms of skills.
What do you think your responsibilities will be in ten years and how does that compare to your current position?
Posted by dlhodge at 02:50 PM | Comments (1)
November 05, 2007
Information Literacy Instruction in LIS
Join us for our first event co-sponsored with the Instructor College!
Information Literacy Instruction in LIS
Thursday, November 8th, 10am-11am
Graduate Library
Room 100
Loyd Mbabu, African Studies Librarian, wrote his dissertation on "A content analysis of information literacy courses in master’s degree programs of library and information studies". Come and learn about how information literacy is presented to students in a number of Library and Information Studies programs. We will also learn about what the library literature tells us about critical competencies for librarian instructors. After the presentations, participate in a lively discussion about how these findings might inform our own understanding of, and methods of addressing, information literacy issues in the context of our own work.
Please join the ongoing discussion on this blog by following the comments for this entry. (For help with difficulties posting comments, please contact Donna Hayward at dhayward@umich.edu.)
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Training and Documentation in the University Library
The working group is hosting a session to discuss staff training and documentation needs at the Library. The session will offer an opportunity to share ideas about Library staff training and provide input on what we need to know to work in the Library of the 21st Century.
To register for these sessions, go to the following page and look for the session titled, "Open Forum to Discuss Library Staff Training Needs," found in the Upcoming Sessions list.
https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/default.asp?confid=3
The charge of the Training and Documentation Working Group is to gather together training and informational documentation for library units and processes. The following URL will direct you to the current list of resources. If you know of documentation that is not listed here or would like to see further documentation, please contact the Training and Documentation Working Group at libtraindocs@ctools.umich.edu.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/staff/documentation/
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Collaboration Efforts '07-'08 Academic Year
The Librarians' Forum will work with other groups across the library this year to co-sponsor events related to our year-long series on the emerging skills and competencies of librarians. Some groups we are working with include the Instructor College and the Library Diversity Committee.
Co-sponsored with Instructor College
Information Literacy Instruction in LIS
Loyd Mbabu
Thursday, November 8th
10am-11am
Room 100
Other sessions on college students and new technologies and cultural differences and education and teaching are also being planned.
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