The CPDWL satellite conference 2015 will be held at Milnerton Public Library north of The Cape Town City 12-14 August. The satellite theme is Taking charge of your LIS career: Personal strategies, institutional programs, strong libraries. We now invite proposals for papers, research reports, workshops, personal stories, and poster sessions. Some proposals will be considered […]
Read moreWe are proud to present the fourth session of the 2014 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.” http://www.ifla.org/node/6141. The theme for this installment of our series is “Information as a Human Right”. For the third consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the […]
Read moreLearning together: when experts from developed libraries work with developing countries, everyone learns and everyone teaches MARY AUGUSTA THOMAS (Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, DC. United States) Right from the start, the topic was reworked to lessen the “developed/developing polarity. However it provided a great springboard for discussions in all three rotations. Library visits or using external […]
Read moreLearning from others – peer training best practices Moderator: Hannah Fischer, Library of Congress, USA Rapporteur: Karin Finer, European Parliament, Belgium There were many interesting discussions and examples of peer training activities around the world, including projects for sharing ideas and experiences on national level (http://osaavat.org/peerlearning/), dedicated websites for professional discussions on international/national/regional level, training […]
Read moreHere`s the next wrap-up of the table Creation of staff training and development teams. Creation of Staff training and development teams Moderator: Vivian Lewis, McMaster University Raconteur: Juanita Jara De Sumar, McGill University The group was presented with some base information and offered the McMaster University case as an example of successful implementation. Participants discussed […]
Read moreDear colleagues, CPDWL thanks all moderators, rapporteurs and participants of the Knowledge Café last week in Lyon, France. From our point of view it was a very successful session with much more participants as we expected even at this last afternoon just before the Closing session. And as we promised we will upload more information […]
Read moreShortly before the second Standing Committee Meeting of CPDWL at http://conference.ifla.org/ifla80 which will be held tomorrow at 9.45 in Salle Bellecour 1 we kindly ask you to let us know in what subjects you are interested in. Because we will decide about the themes for upcoming open sessions and satellite meetings next year and in […]
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