VALA 2016

Carroll, M. (Speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop/course/forum › Industry

Description

Professional Development Round Table: Are Librarians ready for the “Ideas Boom”?

Period	09 Feb 2016
Event type	Conference
Location	Melbourne, Australia, VictoriaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Librarianship
Education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Library and Information Sciences

Documents & Links

VALA2016 Roundtable 2: Professional Development Wednesday 10 February 2016 1445 – 1550 Room: Plenary Hall 3 Facilitator: Hugh Rundle Panellists: Judy Brooker, Director of Learning, ALIA Dr Mary Carroll, Course Director, Charles Sturt University Brad King, Principal Consultant – Information Management, Kinetic Recruitment Christine Mackenzie, CEO, Yarra Plenty Regional Library Karen Seligman, VALA2015 Student Award Recipient Kris Wehipeihana, President, LIANZA Topic: Are librarians ready for an “Ideas Boom”? Challenges: Larger institutions are increasingly moving to trainee models – is there a role for library schools to deliver a skilled workforce in the future? How do we attract, skill, and provide career paths for tech-savvy librarians? Professional Registration is available for librarians in the UK and New Zealand. With library job requirements changing rapidly, is professional registration a useful way to keep librarians up to date, or an anachronism that will hold the profession back? We are a service industry and need a service mentality. Can anyone ’hide in the backroom’ in 2016? How do we bring current library staff along in a fast-moving, fast-changing environment? Professional development and lifelong learning – whose responsibility is it? Is a “library technician” still relevant?