After the second SC meeting of CPDWL held during the WLIC in Singapore there is now a new team on duty:
Co-Chairs are Catharina Isberg, Sweden and Ulrike Lang, Germany
Reelected as Secretary is Monica Ertel, United States and
Eileen Breen from Great Britain will serve as Information Coordinator.
All supported by the members of the standing committee, an outstanding team of experts of CPD.
Don`t miss the programmes of the next conferences which we will announce here!
Susan Schnuer, former Chair of the CPDWL Section will receive the John Ames Humphry OCLC Forest Press Award in recognition of significant contributions to international librarianship.
The award is given by the American Library Association International Relations Committee.
You can learn more about the award at http://www.ala.org/offices/iro/awardsactivities/humphryoclcforest.
Susan will receive the award during the ALA annual conference in Chicago later this month.
The CPDWL Section would like to congratulate sincerly for this much deserved award.
CPDWL is happy to welcome you to the roundtable session Taking charge of your career in Singapore during the IFLA Conference.
We`ll start with the lecture Competence wheel: strategic, personal, communicative and professional technical skills, presented by Catharina Isberg, Communication coordinator of CPDWL.
The tables will give attention to:
1. Intercultural competencies for the international floor. How to behave and react with international counterparts? Intercultural competence doesn`t mean to resolve differentess but to use it. We will discuss different behaviours, gestures etc. Host: Ulrike Lang
2. What to do to be published, whom to contact. Publishing can take many forms – for example blogging, writing book reviews or conference reports, and presenting conference papers. This table will showcase some IFLA options which increase the reach of your work – writing for IFLA and Emerald journals and books. Host: Eileen Breen
3. How to prepare your papers to be published. Publishing papers can advance your career: Learn strategies for getting your interesting results and important best practices published. This table will cover how you identify the right publication, write for your audience, and present your content for publication. Host: Sandy Hirsh
4. Gap analysis (Self managed career). As the self-managed career is replacing the traditional career, librarians need to take contol of their own destinies. Learn tips and techniques for planning the career that you want. Host: Margaret Law
5. Personal skills and competencies. Personal skills are the foundation in leadership as well as in employeeship, where you lead yourself in your daily work. In order to understand other people, you need to understand yourself and your actions. Host: Catharina Isberg
6. How to connect: using social media. Social media – looking at strategies to use social media to continue your professional development or how to manage your own social media profile to enhance your career. Using different social media to network with others in our profession or with our clients. Host: Anne Lehto
7. Internationalizing your career. Getting the international into your career: hear about strategies for developing cross-cultural competencies and multicultural awareness. Host: Susan Schnuer
8. Alternative career. Librarians possess many transferrable skills that can be used outside of a traditional library. How do you identify them? What types of jobs are possible? How does one find and obtain these jobs? Host: Monica Ertel
9. Jump starting career. Learn how to maximize your investment in your personal development. 10 essential education and career resources to help you strategize powerful moves. Join our discussion of a practical shortlist of resources to help you start making connections to continue moving forward. Host: Loida Garcia Febo
10. Professional ethics. At the library workplace we are challenged by ethical dilemmas quite often. Main issues are free access to information/censorship, privacy, equitable services for everyone… How do you become aware that you are facing a dilemma? How do you treat ethical conflicts? How can professional ethics help you to solve an ethical conflict? Host: Hermann Roesch
The CPDWL Newsletter February 2013 is now published. Don`t miss the reminisces with several pictures of the Satellite Conference in Tampere and the CPDWL programmes in Helsinki, but also the upcoming events in Singapore
Satellite meetings allows IFLA professional units to devote more time to a specific topic than is available during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress.
The Professional Committee now published guidelines to make sure that any agreements that IFLA enters into are formalized and will have no financial consequences for IFLA.
We are interested in discussing the guidelines with you and will bring your input to the PC.
You can find the guidelines here:
http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/hq/officers/key-documents/guidelines-satellite-meetings.pdf
For those of you who missed the PC blog message:
After our demand at the leadership brief this year in Helsinki, the PC agreed to recommend a change in timing to the Governing Board. In consultation with National Organizing Committees, the GB, and the PC, will find a way to time the venue announcement so that IFLA’s committees and members can more easily plan their future programs, particularly for satellite events. Especially for sections without midterm meetings (like us) it is highly recommened to have the time for planing already two years in advance.
The full post you can find here: http://blogs.ifla.org/profspeak/2012/09/03/resolution-re-timing-of-ifla-venue-announcement/
And of course we`ll let you know if there are further information.
A selection of the best conference papers from the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 in Helsinki will be published in the IFLA Journal and we are invited to send our recommendations. Please vote until the 25th of September so we can send our recommendations in time to the IFLA HQ.