NPC2010: Taking Charge of your Continuing Professional Development

Taking Charge of your Continuing Professional Development
Laura Woods
Information Assistant
Davies Arnold Cooper

What is CPD?
“...the conscious updating of professional knowledge and the improvement of professional competence...a commitment to being professional, keeping up-to-date and constantly seeking to improve” (Wikipedia, May 2010)

Why is CPD important?
It’s not your grandmother’s library
The nature of information is changing

CPD is vital for new professionals
Moving from academia to the “real world”
Finding your first professional level post

Barriers to keeping up with CPD

Tips for negotiating funding
What’s in it for them?
Share and share alike

CPD on a budget

Professional literature
Professional journals
http://www.cilip.org.uk/membership/benefits/informed/online-databases/Pages/default.aspx
Library and librarian blogs
http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/

“If you put five librarians in a room, within three hours you'll get at least three associations, five committees, six meetings, and one manifesto”
– Stephen Abram
Professional Bodies

Job shadowing and visits to other libraries
Build links within your department
Learn how other libraries in your sector deal with the same issues
Learn what issues affect libraries in other sectors

But all the good events are in...
London
America
any place I don’t live!
Attending events virtually

Awards and bursaries
Apply for everything!
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LIS-AWARDS

Seize the initiative!

Image sources
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NPC2010: Taking Charge of your Continuing Professional Development

by Laura Woods on Jul 03, 2010

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