Mapping the future: 陰陽 (yin yang) career development collaboration

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2014),"23 Mobile Things: self-directed and effective professional learning", Library Management, Vol. 35 Iss 8/9 pp. 582-593 http://dx.Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emerald-srm:403907 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -(yiny ang in Pinyin) is about interconnectedness rather than opposites. The purpose of this paper is to highlight how collaboration connects and strengthens the efforts across the sector and reinforces how the sum of the parts is greater than any one university alone. This paper shares the experience of conducting a collaborative project with three universities. It illustrates the fine balancing act of collaboration (yin) with competition (yang) amongst three of Australia's higher education institutions at a national level, with the aim of contributing to the career development of professionals in the fields of library services and eResearch. Design/methodology/approach -Bond University, University of Western Australia and Griffith University have collaborated to develop a career mapping toolkit which builds on an earlier commissioned project completed by Council of Australian IT Directors (CAUDIT) focusing on enterprise information technology roles. This tri-institutional collaborative project reviews in detail the skills, knowledge and abilities of library and eResearch management roles in the respective organisations.Findings -This project has been hugely rewarding for the initial three project partners who worked and collaborated well together, successfully completing project goals within agreed timeframes. Looking forward, career pathing will become more widespread as managers receive the requisite training, take ownership of these activities and grow to fully realise the value and potential of active career management to team performance. Ultimately, the use of the career pathing toolkit will enhance career satisfaction of the individual which in turn will lift the productivity of the organisational unit. Research limitations/implications -To ensure the ongoing viability of the career pathing toolkit, it is necessary to measure its relevance and effectiveness: each institution is confident in adopting/modifying the fina...

The chief learning officer

“…Finally, in the absence of managerial support or resources, librarians in a variety of positions might seek to engage in the sort of cross-institutional research cited above (Balagué and Saarti, 2011;Saarti and Juntunen, 2011;Sparks et al, 2014;Balagué et al, 2015Balagué et al, , 2016 as a means by which they as individual scholars might move their organizations to benchmark and thereby challenge themselves to develop, whether individually or through collaboration, better approaches to all aspects of the CLO function. Librarians may also advocate for their libraries to adopt guidelines or standards that push their institutions to consider ways to integrate what may be disparate HR and performance improvement functions such as IFLA's Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development (Varlejs, 2016), the UK's Customer Service Excellence Standard (Broady-Preston and Lobo, 2011), ISO 9001 (Balagué and Saarti, 2011), or other quality management standards.…”