Curious what CPDWL Section has done to receive the inaugural IFLA Dynamic Unit and Impact Award in 2018? Watch our 1-minute video covering the impact of our section to the library and information professional community! Thanks to CPDWL members (Juanita Jara de Sumar, Heba Mohamed, Constance Lehro Koui, Svetlana Gorokhova, Ulrike Lang, and Carmen […]
Read moreNothing is more seductive than (work) routines and the notion of ” that`s the way we’ve always done it”. When we work reliably then we get reliable results – but rarely something that surprises, that is new or leads unexpectedly to completely new findings. Sometimes just small changes help teams to come to new conclusions. […]
Read moreA little research project from the UK linked to the full anonymised dataset of messages from publishers to librarians. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pSsgShb5Dj6gwjT3V7ZHHWqSLn_a6U_j The author Bernie Folan: “I carried out a similar project (collecting messages from librarians to publishers) a couple of years ago and that data can be found here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1bAnTSVq-LkcnVGUUtTVklMYlE as well as summarised in this […]
Read moreThe Instruction Committee of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Distance Learning Section (DLS) hosted its first virtual poster session April 1st-5th 2019. The committee sent out a call for proposals to a variety of listservs including ILI, DLS, and RUSA in January of 2019 and accepted a total of 38 posters that […]
Read moreHave you read George R.R. Martin’s series of novels, A Song of Ice and Fire or do you know the HBO adaptation Game of Thrones? Bruce Craven teaches Leadership through Fiction at the Columbia Business School in New York and he gives some advices: If you must face a difficult challenge then accept that challenge […]
Read moreThere is a Xing newsletter and sometimes they really draw attention to interesting articles. It seems a bit strange in times of me too discussions and times where managers avoid being alone with just one employee in the elevator to ask if hugging is completly off-limits in the workplace or not. But it is also […]
Read moreIn this free webinar, run jointly by the IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group (NPSIG) and CPDWL, and supported by the American Library Association (ALA)’s Association of Research Libraries (ACRL), you will hear from five librarians from Germany, South Africa and Canada as they discuss their experiences with international exchange programmes. Join Ulrike Lang, Hella […]
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