Category Archives: Professional Development Opportunity

Webinar: The Portfolio Process: Capturing and Documenting Your Workplace Learning

Pattern Research Inc. offers a free webinar on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00 PM MDT: The Portfolio Process: Capturing and documenting your workplace learning.

This programme can apply to a broad audience inside and outside of the library community, from people starting their careers to people looking to advance in their workplaces to people wanting to document their accomplishments and abilities for current and future employers, as well as people wanting to track informal learning in CE classes and experiential opportunities.It`s interesting for adult educators and trainers, human resource personnel, career coaches, college counselors and instructors, and anyone who helps other people, formally and informally, with their careers.

Career portfolios document evidence that you’ve learned and mastered skills in your workplace, in continuing education, and in formal classrooms. How evidence is documented might be dictated by institutional guidelines. You can create portfolios to earn college credit, record workplace success for evaluations, and present your independent learning and accomplishments to a future employer.

Career portfolios aren’t just about experience; they capture what you have learned, mastered, and applied and how to document and translate that knowledge to satisfy the requirements of employers and higher education.

AGENDA

– Introduction: The Portfolio Process
– The Key Idea: Learning Versus Experience
– What Comprises A Successful Portfolio?
– Student Projects
– College And Professional Certification Programmes
– Workplace Evaluations
– Job-Hunting And Career Development

OUTCOMES

– Write a workplace autobiography.
– Create and maintain a current career portfolio.
– Document past successes.

Free registration https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1136530389893044748

Thanks to Ray Pun for the information.

Managing conflict for Supervisor Success

One of the American Library Association (ALA) LearnRT workgroups has produced a new manager training module about Managing Conflict.

The key learning objectives are:

Supervisors will manage healthy relationships between themselves and their peers by fostering a positive and mutually supportive workplace environment.
Supervisors will foster healthy relationships among staff by effectively navigating conflict and resolving differences, skillfully engaging in difficult conversations and finding mutually successful outcomes.

You can follow on https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/managing-conflict-for-supervisor-success.html

Thanks for the information to Jana Varlejs

CPDWL Coaching initiative: Campaign for volunteer coaches

The coaching method has been explored by the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Standing Committee over the years, as part of Satellite Conferences and as part of the IFLA WLIC programme. Since 2019 CPDWL is collaborating with Management & Marketing Section on the Coaching initiative.

We are now very pleased that the Coaching initiative was approved by the Professional Committee of IFLA for the next three years 2020 to 2022.
At the WLIC 2020 n Dublin the session will focus again on individual coaching, and the format will be a drop-in/walk-in session where coaches are prepared to meet the delegates that want to be coached. As was the goal of the 2019 session, CPDWL and M&M aim to offer coaching in all IFLA languages this year too, as well as any additional language spoken by volunteer coaches.The purpose of the Coaching initiative is to support the coachee (the person who wants to be coached) in aligning organisational and individual goals to improve individual performance and to ensure that the organisation’s mission is achieved.

Coaching focuses on asking open questions, and allowing the coachee to come up with the solution. This differs from mentoring which mainly focuses on giving advise.

In order to give the coaching session, we need many coaches. Maybe you are one of them? If you have experiences in coaching or if you are interested in developing your coaching skills, you are very welcome to contact us!

During Spring term 2020 an online coach training programme will be given in the format of webinars, in order to prepare for acting as coach at the WLIC coaching session. Vera Keown, member of M&M SC and Certified Leadership Coach, is planning the training programme and will be instructor at the webinars.

Since we aim to offer coaching in many languages, we are also interested in knowing if you can coach in any of the IFLA languages or your mother tongue.

Please send your expression of interest to: Carmen Lei [email protected] or Barbara Schleihagen [email protected].

For further information about CPDWL’s coaching initiative, please contact: Ewa Stenberg , Convenor of the Coaching initiative [email protected].

More general information about the Coaching Programme here https://www.ifla.org/cpdwl/projects

The coaching work group: Ewa Stenberg, Almuth Gastinger, Barbara Schleihagen, Carmen Lei, Ulrike Lang, Vera Keown

Working Meeting to discuss how to best adapt and implement the IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development in the Russian libraries by Daria Beliakova,

On November 19, 2019 the Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow held a Working Meeting to highlight the IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development and to discuss how to best adapt and implement these Guidelines in the Russian libraries. See also our post from 18.12.2019. The event organizers have analyzed the outcomes of discussion in groups and presentations and prepared the final document laying out recommendations. We call your attention to the full version of the final document, being widely disseminated via professional press and social media. Based on this document, the Russian libraries will continue to build a system of continuing professional development and workplace learning.

The document is attached from 19.11.2019. CPDWL Guidelines in the Russian libraries_Final document

Mentoring for library managers in Norway by Almuth Gastinger

The Norwegian Union of Librarians (BF), one of the library associations in Norway, launched a mentoring programme for library managers in September 2019.

All library managers in Norway can participate, whether they are member of BF or not. The programme intends to strengthen relations across library types, contribute to the exchange of experiences, provide possibilities for continuous professional development, and have a positive impact on the development of librarianship.

BF will arrange meetings/talks between managers who are at different stages of their professional career. That means, if you are a rather new manager you will meet an experienced manager and vice versa. The mentee himself/herself (person who wishes to be mentored) can suggest up to three mentors.

There are the following expectations of participants:

You want to develop yourself.
You are open and receptive for input.
You are capable of reflecting on your own challenges.
You will prioritise the programme entirely.
You commit yourself to 6-8 meetings/talks per year.

BF’s secretariat will support mentors and mentees if needed. It is recommended to use the guiding templates by Difi (Norwegian Agency for Public Management and e-Government) for the talks between mentor and mentee. These talks should last at least one hour, and the participants can either meet in person or online.

BF has also come up with the following possible topics to discuss:

Planning and executing a task.
Your role as a manager/leader.
A difficult conversation.
Your career.
Leadership requirements and management styles.
How to get through / be met with approval.
Your role within the management team.
Your role as a colleague/co-worker.
Interaction and co-operation with various colleagues.
How to maintain commitment/motivation.
Your strengths and weaknesses as a manager.
How to promote change.

If you have questions about this programme, you can contact programme co-ordinator and BF board member Linda Rasten at [email protected] or BF’s secretariat at [email protected]

Ready for more intensive professional Development: WebJunction is the key and it’s all free

One of the most interesting resource that will sure catch your attention is WebJunction.

WebJunction is a program of OCLC Research, it was launched since 2003 and has helped more than 140,000 learners build the knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver transformational services to their communities.

WebJunction is free and open to all libraries to use, regardless of size, type or location. It is so rich in content as it includes a variety of self-paced, web-based training resources (about 372) available for free for all library workers and volunteers.

What you need as a new learners is to create an account when you log on https://learn.webjunction.org/, after that you will be able to explore the self-paced course and webinars. It is worth mentioning that certificates of completion will be available after completing the course or webinar.

WebJunction course catalog includes the following topics:

Library Service:

Access & Equity (15 webinars)
Children (20 webinars & 4 self-paced courses)
Collections Management (24 webinars & 5 self-paced courses)
Customer Service (7 webinars & 2 self-paced courses)
Health (19 webinars)
Marketing (14 webinars)
Older Adults & Seniors (5 webinars)
Outreach (9 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Programming (21 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Readers’ Advisory (4 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Reference (11 webinars & 2 self-paced course)
Teaching Patrons (15 webinars)
Young Adults & Teens (12 webinars & 1 self-paced course)

Management:

Advocacy (7 webinars)
Assessment, Evaluation & Planning (25 webinar)
Budgets & Funding (10 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Friends, Trustees & Volunteers (6 webinars)
Organizational Management (23 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Space Planning (5 webinars)
Making Space for Active Learning (3 self-paced course)

Active Learning and Community Discovery introduces the concepts of active learning and placemaking, and the tools and process for community discovery.
From Discovery to Design builds on the results of the community discovery process, adapting design thinking approaches to arrive at an actionable idea and a space ready for transformation.
Action Planning and Implementation takes the planning through the steps of making the space and service transformation happen.

Staff Training & Development:

Create & Deliver Training (8 webinars)
Manage Staff Development (9 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Personal Growth & Development (13 webinars & self-paced course)
Alternative Basic Library Education (ABLE) Program (13 self-paced curses)

Collection Development Sequence (5 self-paced courses)
Technical Services Sequence (4 self-paced courses)
Public Services Sequence (4 self-paced courses)

(D4L) Online Teaching and Learning Skills for Library Workers (7 self-paced course)

Technology:

Technology (19 webinars)
eBooks & Devices (10 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Social Media (12 webinars & 1 self-paced course)
Media Smart Libraries: Building Partnerships to Support Children in a Digital Age (3 self-paced courses)

Module 1: Media Literacy for Children & Teens
Module 2: Film Education & Production for Youth and School Librarians
Module 3: Computational Thinking and Coding.

Resources:

https://learn.webjunction.org/

https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/webjunction-overview-webinar.html

https://www.webjunction.org/about-us.html

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Inspiring information professionals write about continuing professional development and workplace learning in order to build strong librarians and libraries for the future!