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CPD: D-I-Y strategies for solo librarians. Dr. Eva Hornung Joint LAI/CILIP Ireland conference 20 th April 2012, Belfast. Why solos?. One-person librarians (OPLs) have been rarely studied, yet one in three librarians in the world is a OPL (Siess, 2003) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dr. Eva HornungJoint LAI/CILIP Ireland conference
20th April 2012, Belfast
One-person librarians (OPLs) have been rarely studied, yet one in three librarians in the world is a OPL (Siess, 2003)
Continuing professional development (CPD) is central to our role as information providers
Little research into CPD for OPLs, none on their own perceptions of this concept
Health libraries School libraries Government libraries Corporate libraries Academic libraries Public libraries Charities
In both profit and non-profit organisations and all subject areas!
OPLs often report And the boss says…
No moneyNo time offNo courses availableNobody around!
What’s a solo to do? DIY!
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Research approach: Phenomenography
Qualitative in natureLooks at variation within perception of a phenomenon
30 OPLs across Ireland took part in semi-structured interviews(maximum variation sampling)
Interviews followed interview schedule Duration: 35 minutes – over an hour
Research questions: What are the Irish OPL librarians'
conceptions of CPD? How do OPLs in Ireland experience different
methods of CPD?
Category 1: Upskilling for the sake of the organisation/library service (service orientation)Category 2: Developing as a professional librarian (LIS profession orientation)Category 3: Helping you to do all the jobs an OPL does (OPL orientation)Category 4: When you have learned something and you want to do things in a better way when you come back (personal orientation)Category 5: Your development as a human being (lifelong learning orientation)
Dimension ‘role’ – responsibility, motivation and support
Dimension ‘time’ – current job or career or life in general
Dimension ‘style’ – formal or informal with examples
Dimension ‘networking’– types of networking, reasons for doing it
Category 1: Service orientationBoth formal and informal; formal strong Formal: Training courses (both in the organisation and outside), seminars, academic degrees; being involved in work committees
Informal: Internet (email lists, online tutorials, free resources); on the job
Category 2: LIS Profession orientationFormal and informal; often informal more important, but accreditation or formal structure strong Formal: Courses, conferences, seminars; training courses as part of a conference; case studies Informal: hands-on, people showing you things; email lists, help forums, web seminars, online learning, correspondence courses, email, phone; reading, especially professional literature; informal networking evening
Category 3: OPL orientationMuch more emphasis on informal Internet (Web, email, email lists, online tutorials), database providers, phone; reading journal articles; on the job activities
Category 4: Personal orientationBoth formal and informal
Formal: Short seminars, training courses, refresher courses Informal: Internet (email lists, newsgroups, restricted groups); hands-on, people show you how to do things (shadowing people); Newsletters from vendors; journals
Category 5: Lifelong learning orientationBoth formal and informal, very strong on both Every opportunity to learn!
• Offer informal evenings, which OPLs can attend
• Create online platforms, such as Wikis, where OPLs can share information
• Explore technologies, such as videoconferencing
• Organise formal events (conferences) on weekends
• Support training funds, which allows one OPL to become an expert who can train other OPLs
Courses need to be…
Available online Affordable for OPLs who often have to pay themselvesAccessible “after hours” (for face-to-face)Advertised well!In co-operation with library associations?
Network through videoconferencing/Skype, e.g. Western Regional Section of the LAI
Subscribe to free online seminars, such as OCLC WebJunction’s webinars (evenings!)
Teach yourself through educational videos on YouTube and TED
Set up Table of Contents alerts with publishers
Install an RSS feed, such as Google Reader Follow 23 Things for CPD Consider mentoring other OPLs!
What are your experiences as OPLs? Do you see yourself in any of these
categories? What is your understanding of CPD? How do you keep up-to-date? Do you experience any barriers? What can library associations and
schools do to help? Would you be in favour of a compulsory
CPD scheme?
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