Taking Charge of your Continuing Professional

Development

Laura WoodsInformation AssistantDavies Arnold Cooper

“...the conscious updating of professional knowledge and the improvement of professional competence...a commitment to being professional, keeping up-to-date and constantly seeking to improve” (Wikipedia, May 2010)

CPD is vital for new professionals

Moving from academia to the “real world”

Finding your first professional level post

Tips for negotiating funding

What’s in it for them?

Share and share alike

Professional journalshttp://www.cilip.org.uk/membership/benefits/informed/online-databases/Pages/default.aspx

Library and librarian blogshttp://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/

Job shadowing and visits to other libraries

Build links within your department

Learn how other libraries in your sector deal with the same issues

Learn what issues affect libraries in other sectors

Awards and bursaries

Apply for everything!https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LIS-AWARDS

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