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Skills LIS Students Need and How Practitioners & Educators Can Collaborate to Provide Them. From One Adjunct Instructor’s Perspective Bobby Bothmann. Metadata & Emerging Technologies Librarian Minnesota State University, Mankato - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Skills LIS Students Need and
How Practitioners & Educators
Can Collaborate to Provide Them
From One Adjunct Instructor’s Perspective
Bobby Bothmann
Metadata & Emerging Technologies LibrarianMinnesota State University, Mankato
Adjunct Instructor Graduate School of Library & Information ScienceUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Overview Desired Competencies Competencies LIS Teaches Competencies LIS Practitioners Offer The Intersection of the Competencies Collaboration Opportunities
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DefinitionsCompetence (Competences)
Oxford English Dictionary
4.a. Sufficiency of qualification; capacity to deal adequately with a subject.
Competency (Competencies)
Merriam-Webster Online Industry jargon
An ability or skill
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ALA Core Competencies1. Foundations of the Profession
2. Information Resources
3. Organization of Recorded Knowledge and Information
4. Technological Knowledge and Skills
5. Reference and User Services
6. Research
7. Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
8. Administration and Management
http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/careers/corecomp/corecompetences
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Instructor Wish List Critical thinking Curiosity Holistic visioning Open-minded listening Patience Time management
Source: Facebook Poll
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Competencies We Teach
Typically Taught Authority control Descriptive
cataloging Classification
schemes Standards Subject analysis
Possibly Included by Some
Original vs. Copy Cataloging
Research & Publication
Technological applications
Source: Hall-Ellis, 2008
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Skills LIS Practitioners Offer Administrative
awareness Authority control Descriptive cataloging Classification schemes Collaborative
initiatives Communication Holistic visioning
Organizational management
Original vs. Copy Cataloging
Research & Publication Standards Subject analysis Technological applications
Source: ALA 2009; Bello and Mansor, 2013; Hall-Ellis, 2008; MAGERT, 2008
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Necessary Competencies Administrative awareness Advocacy & Outreach Authority control Classification schemes Collaborative initiatives Communication skills Critical thinking Descriptive cataloging Holistic visioning Interpersonal skills
Multilingual proficiencies Open-minded listening Organizational management Original vs. Copy Cataloging Patience Project Management Standards Subject analysis Technological applications
Source: ALA 2009; Bello and Mansor, 2013; Halll-Ellis, 2008; MAGERT, 2008
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The IntersectionShared LIS Competencies Administrative awareness Authority control Classification schemes Collaborative initiatives Descriptive cataloging Holistic visioning Organizational
management Subject analysis
Unclaimed Competencies Advocacy & Outreach Communication skills Critical thinking Curiosity Interpersonal skills Multilingual proficiencies Open-minded listening Project management
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What is Left Over? Advocacy & Outreach Communication skills Critical thinking Curiosity Interpersonal skills Multilingual proficiencies Open-minded listening Project management
Original vs. Copy Cataloging
Technological applications
Collaborative initiatives
Holistic visioning
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The Lego EffectProject Management Skills
Attention to detail Communication Leadership Negotiation Organization Recognizing and
solving problems
LIS Equivalents Descriptive cataloging Papers, presentations, etc. Group projects Group projects; degree
design Classification/Subject analysis Reference interview; Case
studies
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Holistic Visioning Holism: tendency in nature to produce wholes
from the ordered grouping of unit structures What skills do you have that can be re-
purposed for this competence?
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Multi-lingual proficiency
Collection Developme
nt
User needs
ClassificationFRBR
Admin & Managemen
t Courses
Ranganathan’s Laws
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Collaboration Options
Mentoring Practicums Professional organizations
Source: Bothmann, 2007
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Perspective
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Sources American Library Association. 2009. “Core Competencies of Librarianship”
http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/careers/corecomp (Accessed 9 January 2014)
Bello, M. A. and Y. Mansor. 2013. Strengthening Professional Expertise: Mentoring in Knowledge Transfer, the Cataloguers’ Perspective. The International Information & Library Review 45, (3-4): 139-148.
Bothmann, Robert L. 2007. Meeting the Needs of Special Format Catalogers: Ideas for Professional Organizations, Library Schools, and Professional Catalogers, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 44 (3-4): 221-232.
FaceBook poll, 14 January 2014. Hall-Ellis, Sylvia D. 2008. Cataloger competencies ... what do employers
require? Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 46, (3): 305-330. MAGERT Education Committee. 2008. “Map, GIS and Cataloging / Metadata
Librarian Core Competencies.” http://www.ala.org/magirt/sites/ala.org.magirt/files/content/publicationsab/MAGERTCoreComp2008_rev2012.pdf