Lecture delivered by Fe Angela M. Verzosa at the 2nd LibraryLink Conference on the theme "Preservation: Trends and Challenges," sponsored by Filipinas Heritage Library (Makati City, 26 August 2010)
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Developing technological competencies and skills of librarians
1. Developing
Technological
Competencies and
Skills of Librarians
by Fe Angela M. Verzosa
2nd LibraryLink Conference
- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
4. How can the Librarian “preserve”
her/his role in the business of
gathering, organizing, and storing
information and data?
With the overwhelming advancements
in technology, what are the major
technological competencies/skills
librarians should possess in this
technological age?
2nd LibraryLink Conference
- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
5. “Libraries need to offer traditional
services more efficiently and new
services which appeal to those
comfortable with new ways of accessing
information.”
Anonymous
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
6. What are competencies?
Competencies are the abilities, qualities,
strengths and skills required for the
success of the employee and the
organization.
In the 21st century, technology is
becoming increasing crucial in effectively
running libraries.
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
7. Information Technology
• information revolution in the 21st century
• Information needs to be delivered in a timely
IT-driven manner for efficiency
• overwhelming information explosion requires
technology to locate, filter, organize and
access it
• Librarians are now frontliners in information
dissemination as IT-specialists and providers
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
8. 21st century library setting:
3 major paradigm shifts
• transition from paper to electronic media as the dominant
form of information dissemination, storage and retrieval
*Convergence of different media, such as text,
graphics, and sound, into multimedia resources, has
direct impact on this transition.
• increasing demand for accountability, with focus on
quality customer services, performance measurement,
bench marking, and continuous improvement
• new forms of work distribution (work-teams) resulting in
downsizing, re-engineering, outsourcing etc.
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
10. Abilities/Attitudes
• ability to embrace change
• comfort in the online medium
• ability to learn new technologies
• enthusiasm for new learning – keeping up
with what is new, current
• ability to compare, assess, use the right
technologies
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
12. Ranking of Skills
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
13. Librarians’ current skills
Traditional Technological
• Organizing collections • Database development
• Managing collections • Database management
• Preserving collections • Digital preservation
• Making them available • Website development
for use and management
• Promoting their use • Social Networking
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
14. Technology competencies
• Email Skills
• Internet skills
• Search strategies
• Library 2.0 skills
• Information literacy
skills
• Social networking
literacy skills
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
15. Library 2.0
• a service model premised on constant and
purposeful change
• and user participation in the creation and
maintenance of services
• while maintaining the goal of extending the
library’s reach to its potential users
• and keeping up with new technologies, current
trends and customer expectations
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
18. Social Networking Literacy Competencies
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
19. Creating content
• Creating, contributing,
and revising content
- in various formats
- within and beyond library walls
- in a variety of social networking sites
• Creating a library presence
- pages, groups, other applications
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
20. events
photos
discussion
board
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
21. guides
catalogs
web
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
22. Photos
videos
Catalog
search
polls
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
23. Photos
Events
YouTube videos
Notes
Info-Profile
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
24. WorldCat
application
Feedback
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
25. …for Marketing/Promotion
University of Central Florida promotes their Ask a
Librarian service through their MySpace page
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26. Using Ning as a tool…
over 2,500 librarians belong to the
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Library 2.0 social network
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27. an online service to
help people catalog
their books easily
Also connects people with same books
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29. A blogging library …
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30. Blogs as Library News Vehicles
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
31. Video-sharing for Library
Tours
an engaging way to introduce new students to
the campus library as well as to its librarians
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
32. Library News on Flickr flickr
Ohio Univ Libraries on
Invites comments
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
33. Wikis as Subject Guides
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
34. PAARLWiki links to articles, lectures, library websites,
library organizations, library grants, anything library-related…
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
35. So, why bother with developing
technological competencies?
• provide better service
• save money
• create a culture of learning
• improve distribution of
staff work
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
36. Providing better
service to meet all
patrons’ needs and
requirements
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
37. Save Money
• If librarians are trained
to handle the library’s
technology needs,
there is no need to
spend money on costly
tech support
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
38. Create a Culture of Learning
• To reassert ourselves as a profession of
knowledgeable information finding experts,
we must take full advantage of all
opportunities for continuing education
•Creating a culture of learning
can unify the staff across
departments and help improve
the sharing of knowledge and
skills
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
39. Improve staff work distribution
• Often one or two members
of a library staff are unfairly
burdened with technological
responsibilities. Creating
set competencies to be
trained in will take the strain
off, and more evenly
distribute the technology
related workload.
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
40. What are the avenues that librarians must take
in order to develop professionally ?
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
41. Avenues for professional development
• Conferences
• Workshops
• Credit Courses
• Summer Institutes
• Internships/Apprenticeship
• On the Job Training
• Self-taught
• Other: meetings, listservs, professional visits,
networking, and others.
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
42. How to keep current…
• Workshops
• Listservs
• Literature
• Conferences/meetings
• Classes
• Research
• Networking with other professionals
• Professional organizations
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010
43. Questions?
Contact famverzosa@yahoo.com
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- "Preservation: Trends and Challenges” August 25-27, 2010