CPD is for life: opportunities within and outside the LIS sector
1. CILIP Ireland
Students & New Professionals Event
Jane Burns, MBA, MLIS, MPhil, FLAI
@JMBurns99
November 22 , 2017
2. CPD is for Life – Loving to Learn is the secret
Disclaimers
I am not an expert – the ideal of a constructed path evaded me
My perspectives on how to look for inside & outside of LIS
environments
I like quotes!!
Biased that libraries and librarians are amazing….
4. CPD is for Life…. Different types!
Formal- Education/Accredited
Professional
Non- Professional but related
Other Professions
On the Job…. But unexpected
Serendipity of interests & experiences
9. DEATH & TAXES
BORING!...But relevant
Taxonomical Structure of Legislation
Application to Everyday life
Professional Education Body
Membership – key to networks
11. The Turning Point… A&SL
Really Connecting
Getting Involved
Range of Skills/Variety of People
Public Speaking
Engagement w Groups/ LAI Exec
Contact with Students
Professional Identity formed
Finding your tribe!
12. Digital World Gone Mad
Getty Images
What is Good Search?
Metadata!!
Digital Humanities & Culture
Narration with a Twist
Defining the Role of Librarians in Digital Humanities
Undertaking Research in a changed world of access
19. Social Media – Followers & Leadership
It starts with one person
https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ
20. Social Media
The Internet connects us to Information – Social Media
connect us to people BUT nothing beats face to face
contact
Social media helps get things rolling in a low risk way
Provides the bridge between events and meetings
Your online identify should mirror your professional identity
Professional Profile can be enhanced by effective
implementation of these tools and techniques
24. The Altmetric Bookmarklet
The free Bookmarklet lets you instantly retrieve Altmetrics
data for any article.
To install, go to: http://altmetric.it
25. What is the Altmetric donut?
The Altmetric donut visualizes the
sources discussing an item.
In the Altmetric Explorer, hover the
cursor over the donut visualization
to see the appropriate legend for an
item.
Each source is colour coded:
26. Student involvement – Conferences & Events
Conferences – range of topics & great way to network
Submit Work – Posters good first step
Apply for Student Rates (often free)
Volunteer
Helping in preparation (conference packs/ social media)
Help at the conference – range of roles
Tweet during the conference
Write a blog report after the conference/ of conference report of Organising
committee
Committees AGM’s/ Conferences/Seminars
Join Mailing lists
27. Transferable skills
Look to the market- read job descriptions- what are you
missing/what do you have?
Look other related sectors or sectors that are heavily
dependent on good quality information
LIS Skilled roles are not always advertised as
Library/Librarian
Be open to aligned fields
Own fields of interest where LIS skills can be applied.
28. Some job titles/areas
Researcher
Project Manager
Developing Databases
Publishing
Information Officer
Websites/Blogs
Desk Top Publishing
Writer
Digital Imagery
Digitisation
Taxonomy
Meta Data Dev.
Training
Social Media
Seminars
Archival
Information Literacy
Content Development
The list goes on!!
29. Emergent Roles
Metadata analyst
Quantitative data analyst
informatics scientist
bioinformatics scientist
Biostatistician
Computational Biologist
Medical Imaging Specialist
Geographic Information Services Librarian
Digital Repository Developer/Manager
Digital Projects Librarian
Web applications Developer
Maker Librarian
Visualisation Librarian
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Data Curator
Digital Preservation Librarian
Data Scientist
Web Integration Specialist
Subject Librarian
Embedded Librarian
Source LAI CDG Group :Information Skills for the
Future April 2015
Dr. John B. Howard, University Librarian, UCD
30. Making Transition from Student to Professional
Career
Embrace the opportunity you have now – never have time like this
again to explore, engage and to enhance yourself
Developing your Professional Profile starts now – look around the
room
Draw on and stay connected with your past path and link to new
trajectory
Some ideas on how to get involved and stay involved
Personal branding
CPD Planning
31. Take Away Points
In order to have the experience you need to be in the
experience
Be involved in the community of practice – your voice counts
Create environments to have transformational experiences
Get involved now- a little or a lot
There is a bright future for our profession (and your career) in
the heart of an information society
The future won't just happen for us- we have to get out and
make it happen
32. Take Away Points
Be open to possibilities open to new ideas and realise you
have skills and unique perspectives to bring to the dynamic
changing world.
Network, network, network
Use Social Media for developing online community
The best way to raise your profile is to raise the profile of
others.
The Altmetric Bookmarklet allows you to check the altmetrics of a research paper just by clicking on the button in your toolbar when you’re reading a paper online.
The Altmetric donut is a visual representation of the attention an output has received. The colours themselves reflect where the posts mentioning the output came from. For example, red means that the article has been mentioned by mainstream news outlets, blue means it has been tweeted about. You can hover the mouse cursor over a visualization to see the appropriate legend and a summary of the mentions for an output.