This document discusses the importance of continued professional growth for librarians. It encourages librarians to assess their current skills, identify areas for improvement, and develop a personalized plan to strengthen their skills through resources like webinars, listservs, and continuing education opportunities. The overall message is that librarians must continually update and expand their skills to remain effective professionals in a changing information environment.

1. The Embodied Librarian:
Becoming the Librarian
You Were Meant to Be!

2. Today’s Take-aways
 Motivation for Continued Professional
Growth
 Personalized plan for professional
growth.
 Resources for professional growth.

4. Our job is to go into the
world, to rebuild it and
make it better!

5. I may not be an explorer, an adventurer, a
treasure hunter or a gunfighter, but I am proud of
what I am…I am a librarian

7. You are called to be a
Librarian

9. What’s In Your Tool Box?
 Take a look at your resume. What
skills did you bring to your first library
job that made you eligible for the
position?
 List out the skills that earned you the
job.
 These are core tools you will always
need to sharpen.

10. Being a Great Librarian in 2005
Does not Guarantee that you
will be a Great Librarian in 2015.

11. Master the Job Skills
Listed on Your Job
Description

12. Mastering Your Job Skills
 List out skill listed on your current job
description.
 Assess your skill levels
 Find opportunities to improve your
skills.

13. The secret of
success is making
your vocation your
vacation. –Mark
Twain

14. What would you want to do in the
Library, if Money and Time were
not an Issue?

15. Know why you became a
librarian
 What first interested you in becoming
a librarian?
 What types of information did you like
to collect as a child? What do you like
to collect as an adult?
 In what activities can you lose
yourself?

19. Where Can I find
Information about
continuing my
education?

22. Webinars

24. Learning Practical Skills

25. And There’s More…
 Newsletters
 Listservs
 Social media
Twitter Lists
LinkedIn Groups…

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