Identifying Subject-Specific Conferences as Professional Development Opportunities for the Academic Librarian

Tomaszewski, Robert; MacDonald, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2009.08.006

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“…Wilson and Halpin (2006) stated that most successful organisations adjust their talent management strategies to focus on development, and to provide solutions that put their employees in control of their own careers. Tomaszewski and MacDonald (2009) also observed that, employee development is a prerequisite to employee productivity and sustenance of competitive advantage in the challenging business environment nowadays. Furthermore, Cooke (2012) pointed out that through innovation and employee career development process; an organisation will benefit from improved performance, mobilise talent as needed, adjust to rapid changes in the environment and thereby retain their most critical talents.…”

Section: Literature Review Career Structure and Development In Univermentioning

confidence: 98%

Career Progression of Librarians in Nigeria and Ghana Universities

Onifade¹,

Okoro²,

Boakye³

2019

Information Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management

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The study examines the career structure of librarians in Nigeria and Ghana Universities. It compares the criteria used in the employment and other components of career progression. Questionnaire and interview were used as instruments of data collection. 50 copies of the questionnaire were administered through the postal service, online mail and personally in international conferences. A purposeful sampling technique was used to select the sample.30 heads of university libraries participated in Nigeria and 20 heads of libraries participated from Ghana. The data were analysed through SPSS and the frequency count and percentage were used for the result. The study reveals that the career structure of librarians in Nigeria and Ghana universities was similar but not the same and that librarians in the two countries are highly educated. Recommendations were also made to improve their status

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Section: Literature Review Career Structure and Development In Univermentioning

confidence: 98%

Career Progression of Librarians in Nigeria and Ghana Universities

Onifade¹,

Okoro²,

Boakye³

2019

Information Impact: Journal of Information and Knowledge Management

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“…Scholarly conferences and seminars may have nonresearchers attending. In a professional field practitioners may gain insights into new developments (e.g., librarians: Lyons, ; Tomaszewski & MacDonald, ) and in the applied sciences, businesses may need access to the state‐of‐the art discoveries announced, or may themselves publish in conferences. For example, Google and Microsoft employees frequently present at the main information retrieval and web conferences.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

SlideShare presentations, citations, users, and trends: A professional site with academic and educational uses

Thelwall

Kousha

2017

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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SlideShare is a free social web site that aims to help users to distribute and find presentations. Owned by LinkedIn since 2012, it targets a professional audience but may give value to scholarship through creating a long term record of the content of talks. This article tests this hypothesis by analysing sets of general and scholarly-related SlideShare documents using content and citation analysis and popularity statistics reported on the site. The results suggest that academics, students and teachers are a minority of SlideShare uploaders, especially since 2010, with most documents not being directly related to scholarship or teaching. About two thirds of uploaded SlideShare documents are presentation slides, with the remainder often being files associated with presentations or video recordings of talks. SlideShare is therefore a presentation-centred site with a predominantly professional user base. Although a minority of the uploaded SlideShare documents are cited by, or cite, academic publications, probably too few articles are cited by SlideShare to consider extracting SlideShare citations for research evaluation. Nevertheless, scholars should consider SlideShare to be a potential source of academic and non-academic information, particularly in library and information science, education and business.

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“…Tomaszewski and MacDonald [33] suggested subject-specific conferences as valuable professional development opportunities for academic librarians with subject responsibilities.…”

Section: Conferencesmentioning

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The role of communities of practice in the professional education of academic librarians

Bilodeau

Carson

2015

EFI

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This study was undertaken to better understand the range of learning practices that academic librarians use throughout their careers, and to explore the ways library schools give students the opportunities to engage in learning methods that they are likely to use in their careers as librarians. The study uses semi-structured interviews with academic librarians to explore their experiences of learning in library school, as new librarians, and later as they advanced through their careers. The study found that learning is an ongoing and essential aspect of librarianship, and that it is generally self-directed, informal, highly dependent on social interactions with peers, and embedded in practice. Participants in the study reported that most of what they needed to know was learned once they started working as librarians, and that their library school experience did little to prepare them for these ways of learning. The study also found that the conceptual model of communities of practice provides a useful perspective for 2 understanding the learning of librarians and for designing a library school experience that is more effective at preparing students for their future careers as librarians. Implications for library school curriculum and course design are discussed. KeywordsProfessional education, continuing professional development, informal learning, non-formal learning, communities of practice, peer-to-peer networks, academic librarians 3

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Identifying Subject-Specific Conferences as Professional Development Opportunities for the Academic Librarian

Cited by 35 publications

References 16 publications

Career Progression of Librarians in Nigeria and Ghana Universities

Career Progression of Librarians in Nigeria and Ghana Universities

SlideShare presentations, citations, users, and trends: A professional site with academic and educational uses

The role of communities of practice in the professional education of academic librarians

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