Free IFLA/ALA webinar, April 16: “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations”

Dear colleagues: We are proud to present the 2013 webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations.” For the second consecutive year, IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning and IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group are partnering with the American Library Association to present a series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest […]

Communication on an international arena

As part of IFLA, all of us are communicating on an international arena. This is not always an easy task, since we all live in different environments which have an impact on our communication. Impact which is so deeply integrated in us so we don’t even notice it. One issue in our different environments (which might be the […]

Save the Date! Free IFLA/ALA webinar “New Librarians Global Connection…”

Dear colleagues: Please save the date for our next free quarterly webinar scheduled for April 16! IFLA President Elect will deliver the Keynote for the event. More information coming up soon! The event is also listed on the online IFLA calendar here.

Letter from the co-Chairs

Sylvia Piggott Ulrike Lang Dear CPDWL members and friends, After a very active and successful year 2012 with a well attended pre-conference in Tampere, Finland and very good conference presentations at our session in Helsinki, Finland, we are now on the way preparing the 2013 Singapore Conference. The high standard of the Tampere Conference can […]

WLIC 2013, Singapore – The CPDWL section sessions

“Taking charge of your carrier”, “New librarians global connection: best practices, models and recommendations” and “Libraries as learning organisations: how to nurture growth in our staff and our communities” are the themes for the three sessions which CPDWL are involved in at the WLIC 2013 in Singapore. One of these is a workshop, one is […]

Minutes from CPDWL virtual officers meeting

In December a virtual meeting was held with the standing committee officers of CPDWL. We discussed among other things the Singapore program, the co-chair model, our use of social media and the standing committee membership list. The meeting minutes are now availabe at the CPDWL web. Please read the minutes to get a full picture […]

IFLA Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL) Section Blog

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