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Presentation given by Julio dos Anjos, Vice-President of Incite
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Debate on the 17th annual BOBCATSSS symposium
January 29th, 2009
Júlio dos AnjosVice-President
1984 : ◦ Founded as Portuguese Association for the
Development of Scientific and Technical 2000:
◦ Rebranded as Portuguese Association for Information Management
Embracing◦ Information and Library Professionals◦ Knowledge workers with strong ties to Information and
Communications◦ Practitioners of Information Services related with IT ◦ Trainers, business managers, economic agents,
political decision makers
Facilitate the development of research in Information Science
Promote principles, methodologies and tools of information management and the balanced use of IT
Develop guidelines of excellence in the creation, management and availability of information and knowledge resources
Sponsor the development and empowerment of practitioners if information management professions
Promote equal rights of access to information and knowledge
1998 / 2001- project DECIDoc (Develop European Competencies in Information and Documentation) with 7 European partners – financed by the Leonardo da Vinci program
2001 - Trad./ Publ. of Guide to Competencies for European Professionals in Library and Information Services(1st Ed)
2002/2004 - project CERTIDoc (European system of certification of information professionals)
2005, April 11th – public presentation of Euroguide LIS at a seminar ”The value of professionals of Information-Documentation"
Group I– Information
Group T – Technology
Group C – Communication
Group M– Management
Group S – Other scientific knowledge
Many under-graduate , graduate and masters degree designed specifically towards the Euroguide LIS profiles (2004…present)
Development of three LIS educational and vocational training frameworks for the Portuguese Institute of Vocational Training (by INCITE 2004)
Design of the vocational training framework (RVCC) for the National Qualification Catalogue of the National Agency for Qualification (by INCITE 2007)
Incite will steer of a Portuguese Euroguide LIS Group ◦ Higher Education LIS schools◦ Recent graduates & seasoned practitioners◦ Associations◦ Employers
Incite will then be the conduit of the findings and proposals of this group to the Euroguide LIS Group headed by ADBS
The supply and demand of LIS skills and competences will always be fluid
Interaction between ◦ the innovation performance of the market
and academic degrees vocational training training courses by professional
associations will always take time to reach each new
equilibrium
IT is a given. No future Information job in the future will exist
without na IT component More management [M-Group of the
Euroguide]Companies need us. Let’s land in them already
running. The self upgrading professional
The only certain thing is changeNo one can predict the job-interview in 5 or 10
years time
Promotion of circulation of LIS works by young professionals
Synergies with other associations and companies, outside the traditional envelope ◦ APDSI (Information Society Development)
Promotion of evidence based librarianship research with the Euroguide LIS as leitmotiv
Research and study of “Best Practices” Promote the cooperation and dialogue
between the LIS’s Higher Education and the Information Management, I.T. and Information Society actors
Promote Web 2.0 in the LIS sector as means to forward information services visibility in the world wide web
Hasten the integration of recent graduates and new professionals in the professional associations.
Serve as a loose framework for the integration of new ‘blood’ in a tradition of more than 2500 years
http://www.incite.pt
Vocational e-Traininghttp://moodle.incite.pt
Observatory of Portuguese LIS blogs
http://www.bibliorandum.net
Júlio dos AnjosVice-President of Incite (2008-10)
Email: [email protected]