Registration Open! for New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations

Cross-posting from IFLA NPSIG blog Register today! “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ “New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations“ is a new series of free quarterly webinars on issues of interest to new librarians, models of library associations and library schools working with new professionals, and groups by and for librarians. The […]

The Road to Information Literacy: Librarians as Facilitators of Training

By Susan Schnuer Talking, eating, and engagement were the main activities at the August Satellite meeting in Tampere.127 librarians from 21 countries attended the 2012 IFLA satellite meeting, a wonderful cross-section of ideas, cultures, and languages. The satellite was co-sponsored by CPDWL and IL IFLA sections and it was successful cooperative effort. This is the […]

OVERVIEW OF CPDWL ACTIVITIES IN HELSINKI, 2012

by Sylvia Piggott As usual, CPDWL had a full programme starting with the Satellite Conference in Tampere chaired by Susan Schnuer and Anne Letho. A full report is available in the CPDWL Blog on the IFLA site. The Helsinki programme chaired by Sylvia Piggott was titled Libraries and librarians as forces for transformative change: […]

Vote for best papers for the IFLA Journal

A selection of the best conference papers from the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2012 in Helsinki will be published in the IFLA Journal and we are invited to send our recommendations. Please vote until the 25th of September so we can send our recommendations in time to the IFLA HQ.

The Road to Information Literacy : Librarians as facilitators of learning

by Roisin Gwyer, Ruth Stubbings, Ruth & Graham (Eds.) Series: IFLA Publications Series 157 Publisher: Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2012 Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship – as well as for academic study – for all of us living in today’s information society. This international collection brings together practitioner and […]

2nd #ifladial tweetchat: instructions

Date and time of the tweetchat: Saturday 8 September, 5 pm – 6 pm UTC (GMT) – see corresponding times zones below Hello everyone, last week, we had the first #IFLAdial tweetchat that alreadyraised a lot of interesting points. Those of you who could not make it last time are very welcome to the second session to […]

CPDWL is twittering

The CPDWL section is now taking one more step into social media as we have started our own twitter account. We’ll be active on different conferences and other events. Follow us on @IFLACPDWL Do you want to twitter? Just let us know!

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!