The document outlines a professional development cycle for librarians, emphasizing the importance of expanding competencies and skills in the digital age. It discusses various methods for assessing current skills, identifying areas for improvement, and planning professional development opportunities. Additionally, it highlights the benefits of professional development for both individual librarians and their employers.

1. Professional Development Cycle:
Expanding competencies and
skills for the role of the librarian in
digital access
Jo Alcock
Evidence Base

2. About me
Evidence Based Researcher, Evidence Base at Birmingham City
University
Internal research (e.g. surveys, focus groups)
External research (e.g. project evaluation, user engagement)
Training workshops (e.g. research skills, project management,
improving productivity)
CILIP Future Skills Project Worker (part time secondment in 2013)
Professional Registration (Chartership and Revalidation)

3. Learning outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will:
Have considered competencies and skills relevant for librarians in
the digital age
Be aware of tools and techniques to support professional
development planning and prioritisation
Be able to consider a wide range of different types of professional
development opportunities
Know methods of recording and reflecting on professional
development

4. Competencies and skills
Librarian competencies and skills in the digital age

5. CILIP Professional Knowledge
and Skills Base (PKSB)

6. Library, information and
knowledge technologies
(12.2)
Social media and
collaborative tools (12.4)
Digitisation (6.5)
Data analytics (3.4)
Digital literacy (8.3)
Service innovation,
development and design
(11.4)
Communicating with
stakeholders (11.2)
Strategic marketing (11.1)
Demonstrating value (9.4)
Networking skills (12.6)
CILIP PKSB

7. As our environment changes so frequently,
continuing professional development helps
ensure our skills and knowledge remain relevant.

8. Professional Development Cycle

9. Self analysis
Understanding your current skills and knowledge
and considering where to improve

10. SWOT analysis
Reflect on your own strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats

11. Current CV and profiles
Analysing your current situation in terms of skills and experience

12. Job role analysis
Reflect on skills and knowledge required for current or future job
roles and identify areas for development

13. CILIP PKSB
Reflect on skills and knowledge required within profession and
identify areas for development

14. Development planning
Planning areas and activities to support
professional development

15. Regularly updated plan including areas for development, planned
activities, intended outcome, and timescale
Development plan

17. Prioritising opportunities
Identifying the professional development
opportunities with most potential benefit

18. Alignment with
development priorities
Will it develop skills or
knowledge that is a priority for
you at the moment?
Could it enable you to
develop skills or knowledge
that could be of use to you in
future?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10687935@N04/5963949378/

19. Benefits
Benefits for you
Developing skills
Improving knowledge
Broadening connections
Benefits for your employer
Enhance job performance
Improved job satisfaction
http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaljingsr/3915512588

20. Your learning style
Does the activity suit your
learning preferences?
Activist
Pragmatist
Theorist
Reflector
Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles/honey_mumford.html

21. Practicalities
Is the time commitment
appropriate?
Is location suitable?
Are there any personal
circumstances that may
prevent you from
participating?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36319610@N04/4857101224/

22. Participating in activities
Making the most of your
professional development activities

23. Before
Plan what you hope to get out
of each activity:
Increased understanding?
Skill development?
Broader network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/999594439

24. During
Make notes:
Handwritten
Typed
Visual notes
Recorded
Review after event to
ensure complete and
accurate
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ekcragg/8589684596/

25. After
Make sure you keep a record
of your notes somewhere
(you may want to digitise for
easy location in future)
Share with colleagues
Share with peers (social
media, blogs)
http://www.joeyanne.co.uk

26. Recording and reflecting
Keeping information up-to-date about the activities
and what you have learnt

27. Recording activities
Desktop document (can use
Dropbox to ensure access
from multiple locations/
devices)
Online document (e.g. Google
Drive)
Online services
iDoneThis
CILIP Portfolio

28. Reflecting on activities
What have you learnt?
How can you apply this in
future?
Any follow-up actions?
Models of reflection
What? So what? Now what?
More on CPD23 Reflective
Practice blog post

29. Professional Development Cycle

30. Any questions?
Jo Alcock
jo.alcock@bcu.ac.uk
@joeyanne