incite @ bobcatsss'09: education and training in lis

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

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Júlio dos AnjosVice-President of Incite (2008-10)

Email: julio@janjos.com