As the Chair of the IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section (CPDWL), I recently had the honor of attending a landmark event commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), alongside the 40th anniversary of the HKU Faculty of Education, and the […]
Read moreOur new poster promoting the IFLA Guidelines for CPD in the digital environment was proudly launched at the WLIC in Dublin (see the earlier blog post, 27 August 2022). We are now calling for LIS colleagues across the world to translate the poster into their own […]
Read moreThe Macau Open Access Seminar, co-hosted by the Macao Academic Library Alliance (MALA) and University of Macau (UM), was held on 22 Oct 2024, at the UM Library to echo the International Open Access week 2024. The seminar is part of a celebration series to mark the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of Macao Academic […]
Read moreOn October 3rd, 2024, Nyakundi James Nyambane, the Head Librarian at Knowledge Empowering Youth (KEY Libraries) in Nairobi and a former IFLA CDPWL member, held a professional development session for information science students and early career library professionals in Kenya. The focus of the session was on professional branding and career preparation strategies, and it […]
Read moreAt the WLIC 2022 held in Dublin, CPDWL launched a new poster about the IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices. When the Guidelines for CPD were released in 2016, the authors, Jana Varlejs, Vivian Lewis, Susan Schnuer and Juanita Jara de Sumar, highlighted the importance of considering additional quality concerns relating to professional […]
Read moreOn the 12th of August 2024 the Russian Library Association (RLA) Section for International Cooperation and IFLA Russian Language Center, based in the Russian State Library, held a round table on issues related to the IFLA international library agenda. The meeting was impeccably organized by the M. Rudomino All Russian State Library for Foreign Literature […]
Read moreThe IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) Section embraces all aspects of professional development and learning in the workplace in the period post-qualification to the end of a career. One of the exciting aspects of this section is that we explore how colleagues are promoting professional development learning in their communities, institutions, or […]
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