Presentation from the Entrepreneurial Librarian Conference, October 17, 2014. Wake Forest University. Amanda Binder, UNC Charlotte and Lareese Hall, MIT libraries.
The Library and Information Science Publications Wiki: A collection of public...laurieputnam
The Library and Information Science (LIS) Publications Wiki gathers information about publications that LIS professionals might want to write for -- whether they want to reach their colleagues or their communities. All editors, publishers, and LIS professionals are welcome to make use of this resource. The wiki is being built and maintained by graduate students at the San Jose State University School of Information.
An earlier version of this presentation was presented at the San Jose State University School of Information Science Faculty Institute in May 2010.
This presentation was provided by Lisa Bayer of the University of Georgia Press, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
This presentation was provided by Lorraine Estelle of COUNTER, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
Supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Libraries Allan Cho
According to the Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB)’s position statement, “libraries have a responsibility to contribute to a culture that recognizes diversity and fosters social inclusion.” Yet the numbers tell a different story, and a recent research study that examined racial and ethnic diversity among Canadian academic librarians in a nationwide survey found a lack of ethnic diversity among the profession. Similarly, when American Library Association (ALA) released "Diversity Counts," the comprehensive study revealed a lack of diversity in librarianship that failed to reflect the demographic shifts across the United States. In 2012, a landmark study captured for the first time demographics of visible minority librarians in Canada, and found an overwhelming need from respondents for a forum to share ideas, a mentorship program, and networking opportunities. Drawing on their research and experiences, this session's panelists share experiences, insights, and concerns relating to the representation, identity, bias, educational barriers, and other issues they have observed and encountered within the library landscape and society at large. How can Canadian librarians support their racially and ethnically diverse librarian colleagues? What are the issues and challenges faced by Canadian libraries with respect to the recruitment and retention of a racially and ethnically diverse workforce? And how can libraries advocate for and promote racial and ethnic diversity in the library profession beyond the confines of their own libraries?
The Library and Information Science Publications Wiki: A collection of public...laurieputnam
The Library and Information Science (LIS) Publications Wiki gathers information about publications that LIS professionals might want to write for -- whether they want to reach their colleagues or their communities. All editors, publishers, and LIS professionals are welcome to make use of this resource. The wiki is being built and maintained by graduate students at the San Jose State University School of Information.
An earlier version of this presentation was presented at the San Jose State University School of Information Science Faculty Institute in May 2010.
This presentation was provided by Lisa Bayer of the University of Georgia Press, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
This presentation was provided by Lorraine Estelle of COUNTER, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
Supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Libraries Allan Cho
According to the Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB)’s position statement, “libraries have a responsibility to contribute to a culture that recognizes diversity and fosters social inclusion.” Yet the numbers tell a different story, and a recent research study that examined racial and ethnic diversity among Canadian academic librarians in a nationwide survey found a lack of ethnic diversity among the profession. Similarly, when American Library Association (ALA) released "Diversity Counts," the comprehensive study revealed a lack of diversity in librarianship that failed to reflect the demographic shifts across the United States. In 2012, a landmark study captured for the first time demographics of visible minority librarians in Canada, and found an overwhelming need from respondents for a forum to share ideas, a mentorship program, and networking opportunities. Drawing on their research and experiences, this session's panelists share experiences, insights, and concerns relating to the representation, identity, bias, educational barriers, and other issues they have observed and encountered within the library landscape and society at large. How can Canadian librarians support their racially and ethnically diverse librarian colleagues? What are the issues and challenges faced by Canadian libraries with respect to the recruitment and retention of a racially and ethnically diverse workforce? And how can libraries advocate for and promote racial and ethnic diversity in the library profession beyond the confines of their own libraries?
Catching the Wave: Academic Library as Scholarly Publisher by Tim Tamminga, B...Charleston Conference
Charleston Conference
Friday, November 5, 2010
2:00 - 2:50 PM
Academic libraries can become the center of on-campus scholarly publishing initiatives by offering and supporting scholarly publishing services.
This presentation explores the library as publisher from two perspectives:
Developing a library publishing strategy: What kind of publication support do our faculty need and expect? What types of services should libraries consider offering? How can we create a sustainable funding model for library publishing?
What are some of the issues that academic libraries encounter as they move into the field of publishing.
Showing real examples of how academic libraries are successfully providing publishing services, including:
• Peer-reviewed scholarly journals
• Student journals
• Monographs: the library Imprint or partnerships with the University Press
• Events publishing: Conferences and workshops
The discussion will show that academic libraries can provide publishing services that expand and enhance the range of library services to faculty, students, administration and their greater communities.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
Presentación en Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Especilizadas 27 y 28 de mayo de 2014, organizado por SISIB U. de Chile.
http://bibliotecas.uchile.cl/congreso/programa/index.html
AkLA 2014 Culturally Relevant & Responsive Libraries panel presentation
Organized and moderated by Valarie Kingsland
Panel: Patricia Brown, Stacey Glaser, Linda Lyshol, David Ongley, Sue Sherif, and Sandy Tharp
In 2001, a group of Alaskan library directors developed the Culturally Responsive Guidelines for Alaska Public Libraries (akla.org/publications/culturally-responsive-guidelines-for-alaska- public-libraries/) in a workshop facilitated by Lotsee Patterson and sponsored by the Alaska State Library. Revisit these guidelines as they are put into context with similar efforts across the globe and join a panel discussion about how libraries are striving to make their libraries relevant to their culturally diverse community members. The discussion will include an exploration of goals and objectives for these guidelines in the future. Brought to you by the Alaska Native Issues Roundtable.
http://akla.org/anchorage2014/presentation/culturally-relevant-responsive-libraries/
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viabilityjeperez8
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viability
Florida Library Association Conference 2011
Jorge Perez
St. Petersburg College
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
Using social media and quantitative metrics to engage the research communityNick Sheppard
The modern university Library comprises repositories, publishing platforms and social media and is central to the dissemination mission of the University. Recent progress towards ‘Open Access’ has enabled research to be more effectively disseminated via the internet and aggregated into an Institutional Repository, empowering institutions to disseminate their own research and monitor associated metrics. A repository is also an ideal home for grey literature and research data, where IPR is more likely to be retained by universities which are increasingly minting DOIs for this type of content, ensuring persistence and enabling (alternative) metrics. This case study will present a Library led social media initiative at the University of Leeds examining local challenges and presenting usage data from Altmetric.com, Twitter Analytics and IRUS-UK.
The University of Leeds is a research intensive Russell Group University with a well-developed ecosystem of research oriented Twitter accounts. These include both University branded accounts overseen by schools, faculties or research groups as well as a huge number of ‘personal’ accounts operated by individual staff or students. In 2012 an account focussed on research data was set up in the Library as part of the Roadmap project but was used only sporadically before being rebranded in 2017 and used more actively to engage with the research community, to promote both OA research papers and datasets.
Themes and challenges include quantitative metrics, institutional and departmental oversight of social media, operational implications and sustainability.
Presented at CONUL conference, June 2016, Athlone, Ireland by Christopher Pressler, Helen Shenton, Eoin McCarney, Cronán Ó Doibhlin and Ciara McCaffrey.
Irish Studies - making library data work harderlisld
[Check out the notes for details] Explores how WorldCat can be interrogated to reveal interesting things about a subject domain - Irish Studies. Part one looks at a move to linked data, suggesting that this will better support research enquiries. Part two provides some simple examples of how bibliographic data can support 'distant reading', literary analysis at scale. The third section looks at the collective Irish Studies collection - how Irish Studies materials are distributed across library collections.
It was presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, 1 April 2016, University of Notre Dame.
Catching the Wave: Academic Library as Scholarly Publisher by Tim Tamminga, B...Charleston Conference
Charleston Conference
Friday, November 5, 2010
2:00 - 2:50 PM
Academic libraries can become the center of on-campus scholarly publishing initiatives by offering and supporting scholarly publishing services.
This presentation explores the library as publisher from two perspectives:
Developing a library publishing strategy: What kind of publication support do our faculty need and expect? What types of services should libraries consider offering? How can we create a sustainable funding model for library publishing?
What are some of the issues that academic libraries encounter as they move into the field of publishing.
Showing real examples of how academic libraries are successfully providing publishing services, including:
• Peer-reviewed scholarly journals
• Student journals
• Monographs: the library Imprint or partnerships with the University Press
• Events publishing: Conferences and workshops
The discussion will show that academic libraries can provide publishing services that expand and enhance the range of library services to faculty, students, administration and their greater communities.
Collections unbound: collection directions and the RLUK collective collectionlisld
A presentation given to RLUK Members' meeting at the University of Warwick.
The library identity has been closely bound with its collection. However this is changing as research and learning behaviours evolve in a network environment. There are three interesting trends. First, atttention is shifting from a library-centric view of a locally owned collection to a user-centred view of a facilitated collection in places where the library can add value. Second, there is growing emphasis on support for creation, for the process of research, as well as for the products, the article or book. And third, we are seeing a changing perspective on the historic core, the print book collection. Increasingly, this is being seen in collective ways as institutions manage down print, or think about its management in cooperative settings, or retire collections as space is reconfigured around research and learning experiences. This presentation also provides preliminary findings for the analysis being carried out by OCLC Research of the RLUK collective collection.
Presentación en Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Especilizadas 27 y 28 de mayo de 2014, organizado por SISIB U. de Chile.
http://bibliotecas.uchile.cl/congreso/programa/index.html
AkLA 2014 Culturally Relevant & Responsive Libraries panel presentation
Organized and moderated by Valarie Kingsland
Panel: Patricia Brown, Stacey Glaser, Linda Lyshol, David Ongley, Sue Sherif, and Sandy Tharp
In 2001, a group of Alaskan library directors developed the Culturally Responsive Guidelines for Alaska Public Libraries (akla.org/publications/culturally-responsive-guidelines-for-alaska- public-libraries/) in a workshop facilitated by Lotsee Patterson and sponsored by the Alaska State Library. Revisit these guidelines as they are put into context with similar efforts across the globe and join a panel discussion about how libraries are striving to make their libraries relevant to their culturally diverse community members. The discussion will include an exploration of goals and objectives for these guidelines in the future. Brought to you by the Alaska Native Issues Roundtable.
http://akla.org/anchorage2014/presentation/culturally-relevant-responsive-libraries/
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Library futures: converging and diverging directions for public and academic ...lisld
The major influence on library futures is the changing character of their user communities. As patterns of research, learning and personal development change in a network environment so library services need to change. At the same time, libraries are focused on engaging with their communities more strongly - getting into their work and learning flows. This means that libraries are becoming more unlike each other, they are diverging as they meet the specific needs of their communities. Research libraries diverge from academic libraries, and each is different from urban public libraries, and so on.
At the same time, at a broader level libraries are experiencing similar pressures. The need to engage more strongly with their communities. The need to assess what they do. The need to configure space around experiences rather than around collections. Libraries are converging around some of these issues.
This presentation will consider the future of libraries from the point of view of convergence and divergence between types of libraries.
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viabilityjeperez8
We are what we own: Deselection strategies for our profession's viability
Florida Library Association Conference 2011
Jorge Perez
St. Petersburg College
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
Using social media and quantitative metrics to engage the research communityNick Sheppard
The modern university Library comprises repositories, publishing platforms and social media and is central to the dissemination mission of the University. Recent progress towards ‘Open Access’ has enabled research to be more effectively disseminated via the internet and aggregated into an Institutional Repository, empowering institutions to disseminate their own research and monitor associated metrics. A repository is also an ideal home for grey literature and research data, where IPR is more likely to be retained by universities which are increasingly minting DOIs for this type of content, ensuring persistence and enabling (alternative) metrics. This case study will present a Library led social media initiative at the University of Leeds examining local challenges and presenting usage data from Altmetric.com, Twitter Analytics and IRUS-UK.
The University of Leeds is a research intensive Russell Group University with a well-developed ecosystem of research oriented Twitter accounts. These include both University branded accounts overseen by schools, faculties or research groups as well as a huge number of ‘personal’ accounts operated by individual staff or students. In 2012 an account focussed on research data was set up in the Library as part of the Roadmap project but was used only sporadically before being rebranded in 2017 and used more actively to engage with the research community, to promote both OA research papers and datasets.
Themes and challenges include quantitative metrics, institutional and departmental oversight of social media, operational implications and sustainability.
Presented at CONUL conference, June 2016, Athlone, Ireland by Christopher Pressler, Helen Shenton, Eoin McCarney, Cronán Ó Doibhlin and Ciara McCaffrey.
Irish Studies - making library data work harderlisld
[Check out the notes for details] Explores how WorldCat can be interrogated to reveal interesting things about a subject domain - Irish Studies. Part one looks at a move to linked data, suggesting that this will better support research enquiries. Part two provides some simple examples of how bibliographic data can support 'distant reading', literary analysis at scale. The third section looks at the collective Irish Studies collection - how Irish Studies materials are distributed across library collections.
It was presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, 1 April 2016, University of Notre Dame.
Presentation from the Entrepreneurial Librarian Conference, October 17, 2014. Wake Forest University. Elizabeth Kocevar-Weidinger and Tatiana Pashkova-Balkenhol
Christeyns bouwt internationale activiteiten sneller uit met Dynamics NAVQuadrant Communications
Detergentenproducent Christeyns groeide de voorbije jaren heel snel door een aantal overnames. Daardoor was er geen gemeenschappelijk ERP-systeem zodat de efficiëntie en het overzicht in het gedrang kwamen. Christeyns werkte samen met Harmonize It, dat ervaring heeft met ERP-projecten voor de chemische industrie. Harmonize It installeerde Microsoft Dynamics NAV en zijn eigen ontwikkeling ChemDis als centraal draaiend ERP-systeem voor de vestigingen van Christeyns in de verschillende landen.
Danielle Dion holds an MA in Religious Studies with a focus in American Religious History, an MLS in Information Science and Learning Technologies and an MBA. Danielle is currently pursuing a doctorate in the field of Higher Education Administration at the University of Kansas. She has served as the Director of the De Paul Library at the University of Saint Mary since 2014. Her library was one of six higher education institutions to receive the 2016 Steelcase Education Active Learning Center grant, valued at $62,000. She actively presents nationally and regionally and has co-authored several chapters and articles on academic libraries and technology. Danielle serves on the 2016 ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education taskforce and is a peer reviewer for ACRL’s College & Research Libraries. Danielle is a 2015 graduate of the ACRL College Library Director Mentor Program as well as a 2011 fellow of the Digital Preservation Management Workshop sponsored by ICPSR. She was also the Rockhurst University campus team leader for the 2014 ACRL Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success program. For more information on Danielle, please visit: http://stmary.libguides.com/danielledion
iLIT Program Development inviting library profession to review on May 30, 2015Manisha Khetarpal
Indigenous Library and Information Technology (iLIT) program is designed on the principles of portable stackable credentials, linked and experiential learning. The presentation outlines the modules and appreciates the instructors and presenters involved in shaping training opportunities for indigenous communities, Please view the attached presentation, share and post your comments.
The Practicalities of Cultural Competence - CARL 2014kairyth
A presentation about ACRL's Diversity Standards for Cultural Competence in Academic LIbraries, and how they have been implemented in academic libraries in California. From a presentation given at the 2014 CARL - California Academic and Research Libraries - conference,
Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries in Times of Uncertainty: A Rese...OCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2017. “Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries in Times of Uncertainty: A Research Agenda for Student Learning and Success.” Presented at the University of Macau, Macau, April 6.
Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries in Times of Uncertainty: A Rese...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2017. “Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries in Times of Uncertainty: A Research Agenda for Student Learning and Success.” Presented at the University of Macau, Macau, April 6.
A talk delivered by Lauren Smith at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015
Communicating Library Impact Beyond Library Walls: Findings from an Action-or...OCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Alan Carbery. 2017. “Communicating Library Impact Beyond Library Walls: Findings from an Action-oriented Research Agenda.” Presented at the ACRL Leadership Council at the ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 23.
Communicating Library Impact Beyond Library Walls: Findings from an Action-or...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Alan Carbery. 2017. “Communicating Library Impact Beyond Library Walls: Findings from an Action-oriented Research Agenda.” Presented at the ACRL Leadership Council at the ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 23.
This presentation was provided by Pedro Reynoso of Chabot College, during the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics for the 21st Century (Session Two)," held on November 1, 2019.
Changing Tack: A Future-Focused ACRL Research AgendaLynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Changing Tack: A Future-Focused ACRL Research Agenda.” Presented at the ACRL 2017 Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 23.
Changing Tack: A Future-Focused ACRL Research AgendaOCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish. 2017. “Changing Tack: A Future-Focused ACRL Research Agenda.” Presented at the ACRL 2017 Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 23.
New Roles for Librarians: The Blended ProfessionalElaine Martin
Lamar Soutter Library Director Elaine Martin reviews the training initiatives, e-science developments, and questions that are being asked as librarians move from bounded to blended professional roles.
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Living learning communities are becoming more common on campuses. A living learning community that focuses on the library is rare. Patrick Rudd and Joan Ruelle describe how it was done at Elon University's Belk Library.
Handout from Outreach Presentation from Allison Sharp, Nathalie Hristov, and Manda Sexton at the 2018 Entrepreneurial Librarian Conference, Winston-Salem, NC
Presentation at the Entrepreneurial Librarian Conference, October 17, 2014. Wake Forest University. entrelib.org Julie Leuzinger, University of North Texas
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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Creating Communities of Practice: A New Culture of Professional Development
1. creating communities of practice
A new culture of professional development
Amanda Binder
University of North Carolina Charlotte
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Lareese Hall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
entrelib
october 2014
wake forest university
6. how do we define it for ourselves,
our libraries,
and the library profession?
7. “The phrase “professional development” is used liberally by
librarians. It’s used so liberally and in so many different
contexts that I’m not really sure just what it is anymore.”
Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal
8. UNC Charlotte (UNCC)
1
1000 acre wooded campus. 75 buildings. 8 miles from uptown Charlotte.
● 7 Colleges
Arts + Architecture, Business, Computing and Informatics, Education, Engineering, Health
and Human Services, and Liberal Arts & Sciences
● Programs
80 Bachelor's degree programs
64 Master's degree programs
21 Doctoral degree programs
● Total enrollment Approximately 27,320
9. UNCC Atkins Library
Mission
The J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina Charlotte
advances intellectual discovery by connecting people with knowledge.
● Library faculty 31
● Library staff 48
● Library Departments 7
● Library Committees 4
o Committee on Appointment, Reappointment, and Promotion (CARP)
o Library Review Committee
o Departmental Review Committee
o Professional Activities Committee (PAC)
10. “The Professional Activities Committee (PAC) shall
promote the continuing education and professional growth
of the Library Faculty. The Committee shall develop
appropriate courses, workshops and lectures… It shall also
cooperate with faculty and administrative bodies concerned
with university staff development.”
11. library research committees
academic writing group
peer mentoring group
professional advancement group
research work group
tenure support group
communities of practice
researching funding group
12. A community of practice (CoP) is… a group of people who share a craft
and/or a profession….It is through the process of sharing information and
experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, and
have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally
(Lave & Wenger 1991).
Wikipedia, “Community of Practice”
We love wikipedia.
Amanda
Good morning. Today we’ll be talking about the communities of practice that we developed at UNC Charlotte and what led to that development. We’ll also discuss the theory behind communities of practice and how it and other models have been applied in academic library settings to create a particular kind of culture of professional development. While using this model may not be new to libraries, exploring this practice has led us to some interesting discussions and questions about the definition of professional development and how our approach to supporting it impacts not only individual librarians, but also our institutions, and the profession.
we’re not trying to be original
eese first. forward to image slide while we talk.
Lareese and Amanda both talk
Lareese -
I have been an "official" librarian for over five years. Prior to entering the profession, I worked in non-profits managing people and projects and ideas. I approach librarianship from the perspective of always improving - not simply relying on the way things have worked but on what the future may hold. And I look outside of the profession for inspiration and ideas. I am currently the Architecture and Art Librarian at MIT but prior to that I worked as the Art and Architecture librarian (see, the disciplines switched places) at UNCC - until March of this year. That is where I met Amanda and where we started bouncing ideas off of one another. Our work is a collaboration and a conversation - not a statement. That is how we have approached this presentation. I think of librarianship as a profession full of promise - one that has great potential to be experimental and revolutionary and that requires people who work in it to be unafraid of change, curious, and forward thinking, always.
Introducing ourselves - not the bio
a small part of this is about what we did but the story and our thinking is a bigger part of this story and is harder to define and describe - which is precisely why it’s important why we do it.
slide - ideas on ideas on ideas. wait, what are we talking about? an image that is out of focus or is in pieces and then slowly construct it. collaboration is fun.
because our work/collaboration is a conversation, not a statement.
Amanda -
I am one of the social sciences librarians at UNC Charlotte. I started my library career at a small, public liberal arts university with a library faculty of 7 or 8 people. There was a lot of collaboration on research and practice because we were a small institution and the close proximity of our offices and just a desire to collaborate worked well. When I started at UNC Charlotte in 2012 I found myself in a much larger library, and I was trying to find ways that library faculty collaborated and learned about each other’s research interests… and what I found was that there was not really a space for these discussions across departments. Lareese and I started around the same time and our discussions led to us both wanting to create such a space. Class on participatory culture and social action informed my approach to professional development.
Mention how Lareese and I approach things differently (big picture vs. problem in front of you)
citation:
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Lareese -
From Forbes article (http://www.forbes.com/sites/brettnelson/2012/06/05/the-real-definition-of-entrepreneur-and-why-it-matters/): An entrepreneur is “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.”
How does that translate to libraries? In our meetings and conversations Amanda and I frequently identified needs, built structures to support them, and watched them fail - all within the comfort of our offices. The difficulty with entrepreneurship in librarianship is there is little space built into the profession for the kinds of experimentation - and failure - that encourages true innovation. One thing we did identify - the reality that any sort of successful endeavor relies on an engaged team. Entrepreneurship can transform libraries - but encouraging risk and experimentation have to be a part of the equation.
This can happen - but it will not happen by tweaking existing structures - although things will always need to be tweaked. We were interested in encouraging the kind of exchange and dialogue that we enjoyed - some space in obviously busy schedules - to actually dream about impossible futures. But how to do this in a way that gives other colleagues a platform for failure that doesn't feel like failure. Some people are simply not comfortable out in the wilds alone.
We wanted to encourage a non-hierachical model for "success" as a librarian. We wanted to be transformative - however that manifested itself. We wanted the process to be iterative, for each iteration to be better than the last. We, gasp, didn't build assessment into the equation initially. We wanted to demonstrate that having an idea and building on that idea collaboratively can be both inspirational and aspirational. And it might fail. We wanted to show that too. This kind of thinking is important to manage - ways to change our profession, our organizations, ourselves.
Define. Invest. Build. Repeat. you see some variation on those terms in a variety of literature about start ups and other entrepreurial endeavors. It is reminiscent of what we tell our users - find, organize, use, repeat. Applying this kind of rigourous thinking to our WORK not just our resources is what we are discussing here.
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RANDOM NOTES
this is a case study for what we are talking about. etc… place in order story - storytelling Make this a story about our process of creating the groups - telling a story
contextualize entrepreneurship. entrepreneurship as we define it in the library profession. transforming business, culture and it can transform libraries. Starting a conversation - not about the end product. How did we get to this point? We’re a different animal all together. Proposing a way to restructure librarianship from the inside. Why can’t we create a new model? THe good thing about it not being visiible is that failure doesn’t hurt you. No one will know if you don’t succeed, but it allows you to fail frequently and publicly, but it allows you to create new things that create value. Not a hierarchical model of success. we know we’re not original - we’re not trying to be. we want to be transformative, however that manifests itself. The idea of being an entrepreneur is failing and failing often and we’re not originally . The whole process is an iterative one, and we’re being entrepreneurial and aspirational thinking about ways our own development as professionals can change our institutions, our profession, and us as individuals.
Lareese -
And so we start with professional development. That term is tossed around frequently but means different things to each person saying and hearing it. To be clear, we define it literally - the development of the profession. That the ultimate goal of our growth within the context of our daily jobs, our aspirations for our futures, and even things we do outside of traditional thinking about libraries, can and should contribute to the profession.
It never fails that whenever I tell someone I meet that I am a librarian, they get both a surprised and pleased look on their faces. They have an image of what a librarian is - even if librarians seem to struggle with definitions. I always approach my work with a beginner's mind (or i try to) - to be surprised by things, to not be afraid to try things, to experiment and fail. Nothing is more depressing than a librarian who has given up - and we all know at least one. I want to have a surprised and pleased look on my face at some point in every day.
I have been a "general faculty" librarian, a faculty librarian, and a staff librarian. Every library I've worked in has provided some form of professional development funding - and all in the service of a review process (sometimes clearly articulated and sometimes not) that is set up to move me forward in my organization. I've attended leadership institutes that taught me a great deal about emotional intelligence and clearly identifying a path for my trajectory in the profession. I am an African American woman and an art librarian - a hot commodity, no doubt - but rarely has anyone actually engaged in conversation with me about the future of the Profession and my place in it (regardless of where I land in an institutional pecking order).
I am not now, nor have I ever been interested in writing articles for or speaking only to the profession - a shortcoming on my part because I realize that if I see myself as an outsider within the profession, it is sometimes good to be vocal about precisely why I want to stay outside. So here I am. Here we are. And, as Amanda said, we are two different people with different ideas about our own development and the development of the profession. This is a conversation, as I said, an experiment.
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How did we get to this point?
Contextualizing it. It’s because we copied a model from higher education? FIND OUT. Same expectations.
PD as it applies to the organization, traditionally, and what it could be - the individual can still be supported but in a collective and strategic collaboration.
PD as it applies to the profession - what does it mean for the profession? ? Another slide?
Why can’t we create our own model. What we are proposing a way to restructure librarianship from the inside. a start up. a think tank. PAC is a test for a think tank.
Bell labs
think tanks
depends.
tends to focus on the individual.
what does it mean for the profession?
Lareese -
The "It" here refers, again, to professional development - the development of the profession. Although our focus here is on academic libraries, what we suggesting applies across the profession. Within academic institutions, libraries are truly independent entities.
this is what shapes our approach to the CoP creation. This presentation uses the CoPs to explore professional development. Let’s focuse on that - simply.
PD as it applies to the individual, traditionally
tends to focus on the individual. Professional development for librarians often relies on individual engagement and recognition as a measure of success.
Amanda - this is the infrastructure for thinking about professional development… historical precedents (someone)
To reconsider and restructure this thinking, librarians must consider creative professional practice with models of engagement demonstrated across multiple disciplines and platforms. Identifying new approaches to the profession allows librarians to reconsider growth within scholarly, personal, and institutional constructs.
How are libraries creating cultures of professional development that support personal, academic, and institutional growth?
Literature review
Current models of PD support: money, time, opportunities (workshops and conferences), funding for professional association membership, etc.
importance of analysis in an academic or research library setting (next slides)
Amanda -
As I was looking through the literature on professional development in libraries I stumbled upon this 2-piece work by Cheryl LaGuardia who writes an opinion column for Library Journal and it really resonated with me. The piece was called “Professional Development: What’s It to You?” If we cannot define it then we perhaps risk not achieving it. And it made me think that our definition of it would certainly determine the outcomes. So we thought it would be appropriate and necessary to really think about what it means.
Professional Development isn’t just about completing a list of tasks. It requires both intense focus and stepping back to look around. It can be collaborative and experimental and iterative. It also isn’t limited by the parameters of an assignment or task. It is cumulative and ongoing.
Lareese
lareese
comment on the structure of the committees and how none focus on the profession
the intention of our project differs from other projects that led to the development of CoPs and like-groups
check numbers
AManda -
Most of the librarians at UNC Charlotte have non-tenure faculty status and as such we have individual budgets for professional development and expectations to contribute in some way to the profession through writing, presenting, or other projects.
Professional Activities Committee, to make professional development a grassroots and collaborative activity.
When I started working at UNC Charlotte I joined the PAC and was appointed the chair of the committee. In the past, the committee had taken on various different roles within the library, but more recently they had offered brown-bag discussions and poster sessions where people could show what they had presented or worked on. In my first year as chair, I organized several workshops and panel discussions that I thought supported professional development, and I opened them up to staff. Lareese and I also started to work on a professional development blog that would post opportunities for professional development as well as highlight the professional work of library faculty. The panels were well attended but I realized that although these events created a space for discussion, it was a limited space, and nothing still existed for ongoing discussions and collaboration. We were still creating things for people to consume… rather than creating an actual living space for collaboration. And that is often how people approach professional development. You attend workshops, seminars, etc. for learning and inspiration but the process of creating often happens alone.
Amanda - charge of the committee
Maybe mention how PAC functioned before this (before you became head of it) and how being new to the organization maybe helped you see the need for the approach you have taken as the lead?
Amanda -
Through several conversations with Lareese, we discussed how some of the teaching faculty in our liaison departments worked and collaborated together, through writing groups, for example. We then did some research to see if any libraries were employing these practices to support professional development, and we discovered that libraries have tried various different types of groups to collaborate and offer support. These are the names of some of the groups that have been developed to support professional development in libraries. Some focus on mentoring, or very specific areas (funding, writing) while others are more inclusive (CoPs). Referred to in May 2014 C&RL article on “Fostering Research and Publication in Academic Libraries” (Sassen and Wahl at University of North Texas Libraries)
we chose to investigate and expand upon what a community of practice can be or maybe how it could operate in an academic library
Based on the anthropological concept of “communities of practice,” PAC committee members developed three “learning communities” to rethink and expand the definition of support for professional development and engagement. After reviewing the literature and discussing other professional development models - as Amanda mentionedThis thinking was grounded in models employed in academic, nonprofit, and business environments
studies of other libraries that have done a community of practice - literature review
that’s the case for any group professional activity in a library - but makes this different is that we are actually trying to shape the conversation in such a way that we reshape the profession.
all of the challenges are actually opportunities for change and growth.
Lareese
presentations
writing (mostly professional, not all)
grant writing
many people in more than one. Not all library faculty.
Based on the anthropological concept of “communities of practice,” the committee developed three “learning communities” (later renamed “communities of practice”) to rethink and expand the definition of support for professional development and engagement. This thinking was grounded in models employed in academic, nonprofit, and business environments
studies of other libraries that have done a community of practice - literature review
that’s the case for any group professional activity in a library - but makes this different is that we are actually trying to shape the conversation in such a way that we reshape the profession.
all of the challenges are actually opportunities for change and growth.
Lareese
Delete this slide. Will mention three groups when I introduce the COPs.
picture of us working in writing group - one of the writing sessions
Amanda
how to convey to people participating the importance of the group
opportunities
mentorship
new faculty and faculty/staff retention and promotion
interdepartmental communication
intradepartmental communication
internal collaboration
builds community
face-to-face communication
creating a space for conversations that are not already happening through other meetings, groups tio
Amanda
challenges?
a big challenge is the lack of encouragement for risky and weird ideas in the profession. People aren’t willing to be seen as weirdos. or quirky. there’s one quirky person in the organization - to its detriment.
in keeping this going and how they evolve and how do you respond to that.
the reason people only think of themselves is because of how its been set up - and how that impacts the profession. it’s still about the “me” not about being invested in an institution. Building a career doesn’t have to do with the institution, necessarily. Problems in higher education and contemporary culture. Trying to cultivate a different kind of culture.
From a focus on helping the individual to helping everyone. Some people only think to attend if they have something to talk about… something they need help with. The purpose of attending should also be to help others.
Getting more experienced/established librarians to participate.
How to format the meetings. Open discussion? Guest speakers? Themed discussions surrounding a reading?
Also, what happens when there is a new leader of the Committee?
Lareese
a model for professional development and how it impacts the individual, institutional, and profession. and how this is entrepreneurial.
Amanda
What challenges do librarians face in finding broader support for professional development?
I think we assume that professional development will benefit the profession but we do sometimes get caught up in what it means for the individual and we can lose meaning in the phrase.
one of the challenges is how institutions narrowly define support for PD (ex. in terms of money, time, training). Everything is for the individual.
challenge in how institutions narrowly define PD (forms of writing), etc.
Amanda
The creation of communities of practice proposes a model for professional development that reconsiders personal and institutional growth through community building.
Amanda
Create an evolving definition of professional development that considers scholarly, personal, institutional, and professional growth.
lareese - how these feed into traditional structures for organizing/hierarchies
how some people flourish in something more creative (that still gets at recognition and professional engagement
Past - how professional development for academic librarians has historically has been structured based on traditional organizational structures and ?? higher education.
Present - there is a “movement”?? afoot that encourages creativity and curiosity in organizations - particularly in the business world - and how that is filtering into the ways organizations support the professional growth of their employees. (This is a way to seed the conversation - later) about start up culture.
this project. we are starting a conversation not about the end product. we have a lot of questions and are challenging things - the way pro dev has been done and has been approached. we are building this conversation as a question, not an answer. and its one answer and the beginning of getting to an answer. it can only go so far without making bigger changes in the profession. the attitude of the way we do things affects their willingness to participate. there are no “points” or outward benefits to participating.
Lareese - it is impossible to predict the future.
professional organizations work for some people - but they tend to reinforce traditional structures of recognition and promotion (which, again, support an existing structure in higher education in particular).
we tend to ignore what is right outside our computer screen - our colleagues (not just as collaborators on projects but as instigators, supporters, sounding boards.
does not rest with professional organizations. can be “home grown” a real time “social network”
how other organizations have done it and are thinking about it.
CoP at MIT - a flexible way of organizing people across disciplines.
the future of librarianship from the perspective of growth and learning as collaborative, active, and engaged activities that foster community and redefine the profession
start up culture