{"id":598,"date":"2019-06-25T03:43:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T02:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/?p=598"},"modified":"2019-06-25T03:43:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T02:43:38","slug":"reflecting-on-ifla-cpd-guidelines-as-a-singapore-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/2019\/06\/25\/reflecting-on-ifla-cpd-guidelines-as-a-singapore-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on IFLA CPD Guidelines as a Singapore librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifla.org\/files\/assets\/cpdwl\/guidelines\/ifla-guidelines-for-continuing-professional-development.pdf\">IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is an important document. It covers the breadth and scope of professional development.<\/p>\n<p>I first came across this document at Session #158 at the IFLA WLIC 2018, and I wanted to share it with fellow librarians in my home country, Singapore. I wrote a two-part series because there was so much to discuss and examples I picked up along the way in my career.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.las.org.sg\/wp\/bulletin\/continuing-professional-development-minding-your-own-business\/\">Continuing Professional Development: Minding Your Own Business<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.las.org.sg\/wp\/bulletin\/continuing-professional-development-cpd-whose-business-is-it\/\">Continuing Professional Development: Whose Business Is It?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I published these articles in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.las.org.sg\/wp\/bulletin\/\"><em>Singapore Libraries Bulletin<\/em><\/a>. It started as a print newsletter back in 1990, and evolved into a blog in 2006. It is intended as a forum for the library community in Singapore to interact with each other.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this can create more conversation and dialogue on professional development in your country, and generate more references back to the IFLA CPD Guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices\u00a0is an important document. It covers the breadth and scope of professional development. I first came across this document at Session #158 at the IFLA WLIC 2018, and I wanted to share it with fellow librarians in my home country, Singapore. I wrote a two-part series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21118,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpd-guidelines","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}