Planning a Professional Development Program (COMO 2011)
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Learn how create a comprehensive professional development plan for your library, including how to incorporate the "Great Things About GALILEO" self-paced training into your training program.
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Planning a Professional Development Program (COMO 2011)
- 1. Professional Development Planning for Public Library Staff, GALILEO Included Presented by: Jay Turner, GPLS Courtney McGough, GALILEO
- 3. What makes a public library professional development program successful?
- 4. Strategic Plan PDP Individual’s Training and Development Needs Library’s Training and Development Needs
- 5. Determine your library’s training and development needs by examining environmental impacts, performance standards, changing technologies, and professional trends.
- 6. Employees should write SMART annual goals that challenge them to further develop their skills.
- 7. 4 S’s Systematically planned, systemic, supported, and sustained Systematic Systemic Supported Sustained 4 S’s
- 8. Step 1 Defining the purpose of your PDP Step 1: Articulating Purpose
- 9. The Baldwin Public Library realizes the importance of a knowledgeable staff and encourages their growth and development through participation in educational and training programs.
- 10. The New York Public Library offers all staff a wide range of training and development opportunities. In addition to critical job skills our curriculum includes topics designed to develop you both professionally and personally.
- 11. The Turner Memorial Library champions professional and personal development by offering all staff an array of training and continuing education opportunities so that staff are empowered to successfully implement the library’s mission, vision, and strategic plan.
- 12. Step 1 Step 2: Roles and Responsibilities
- 15. Prioritize funding for the program.
- 17. Provide staff with access to appropriate training and development opportunities.
- 19. Encourage staff to participate in training and development opportunities.
- 21. Take responsibility for professional growth.
- 26. Local seminars
- 33. Conferences
- 38. Thank you! Jay Turner jturner@georgialibraries.org Twitter: lawlesslbrarian
- 40. Great Things to Know about GALILEOhttp://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training/self_guided/great_things_to_know_about_galileo/
- 41. Great Things to Know about GALILEO Professional development program for public library staff Based on the 23 Things program Self-paced, bite-sized learning Guided exploration and discovery Certificate of Completion (0.5 Contact hours) Supervisor guide 10 modules
- 42. 1. Using GALILEO to Help Patrons 2. Finding Full-Text Magazines 3. Finding Ancestors 4. Discovering Georgia History 5. Finding the Next Book to Read 6. Finding the Best Databases for a Topic 7. Finding Articles Quickly 8. Helping College Students 9. Helping K-12 Students 10. Using Advanced Database Features Great Things to Know about GALILEO
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- 53. Great Things to Know about GALILEOhttp://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training/self_guided/great_things_to_know_about_galileo/
- 55. Thank you! Jay Turner jturner@georgialibraries.org Twitter: lawlesslbrarian
Editor's Notes
- Introductions
- A library professional development program should encompass your strategic goals, your identified learning needs, and individuals professional development goals. Chances are your library has a strategic plan, mostly a 3-5 year one. How do know what your library’s learning needs are? You need to do some kind of needs assessment on at least a bi-annual basis; naturally, the often you do it, the better your PDP will be.How do know employees goals are so that your PDP is responsive to them? Your employees should be writing annual goals that are reviewed as part of their annual evaluation. In those goals, there should be a space for the employee to list what kind of training/developmental opps she needs to reach her goals.
- Find out what your library training and development needs are by:Looking for environmental impacts, such as new laws that will impact your library or is your library restructuringPerformance standards – how well are people doing their based on actual behavior vs optimal behaviorChanging technologyTrends and mega-issues in the profession, such as new cataloging standards, DRM debate, advocacy efforts, etc.Be sure to point people to OITP report and PLA strategic plan assumptions (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/about/strategicplan/2010plastrategicplan.pdf)
- Your library should have a system in place where employees write annual goals that are included as part of their performance appraisal. Goals should be SMART and challenge the employee to think of ways that he/she can continue to develop skills that will further: the strategic plan; her performance as it relates to her job description; her own professional development
- When you have a PDP that is aligned with the strategic plan, the library’s training and dev needs, and an individual’s training and dev needs, your PDP should meet the standards of the 4 S’s:It should be systematically planned, systemic, supported, and sustained. Systematically planned: it should have mission and vision, a comprehensive slate of CE opportunties, delineate roles and responsibilities for implementationSystemic: It has support throughout all levels of the library. This means your administration must buy into the value of having the program just as much as line level staff. Supported: It integrates with the very fabric of your organization. You have to have a culture that supports learning with people buying in to the vision that you’re growing yourself so that you can make the most positive impact in the community as possibleSustained: when budgets are cut, we all too often see training and development get the axe first, which is unfortunate because library’s are primarily service-based industries. When you commit to implementing a PDP or already have one, funding needs to be maintained as a strategic priority.
- In a broad sense, what are you trying to accomplish overall with your PDP? It should tie back into the mission and vision of your library.
- This is an org chart of sequyah regional I found on webjunctiongeorgia. I don’t know how old it is, nor am I saying the following example I’m going to give you is indicative of what Seq does. This is for illustrative purposes only.When you look at your organization, you quickly realize that everyone has a role in the success of your PDP, but the responsibilities differ. I have four colors on the org chart here. Let’s say you’ve examined you org and determined that four distinct sets of responsibilities at different levels in the library. There is no one approach is right in determining your stakeholders; only you know your organization. You might recommendations (and justifications) as to who should be included, but ultimately, the executive director will make the final call.So in general the responsibilities breakdown like this. -- yellow: maintain professional development as an organizational priority.-- salmon: point person for the PDP who identifies org training and development needs and oversees the overall functioning of the PDP. I believe that EVERY PDP should have a point person, even if you have no training manager dedicated to that role.-- green: support a culture of learning in the branch/department-- purple: account for your professional growth. EVERYONE in the org wears purple!
- ALA librarianship competencies: http://www.ala.org/ala/educationcareers/careers/corecomp/corecompetences/index.cfmWJ competency index: http://www.webjunction.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=67024497&name=DLFE-16500008.pdfComprehensive list by various libraries: http://www.webjunction.org/competencies/-/articles/content/432380?_OCLC_ARTICLES_getContentFromWJ=true - some of the best include ohio library council, charlotte for technology
- Page from charlotte mecklinburg training curriculum; provided by lori reed of lori reed learning solutions
- Webinars (WJ, InfoPeople, Booklist, TechSoup)Going to conferences of ALA and its various divisions like PLA, YALSA, or LITA or attending COMO and the ilkProvide time for people to join/meet informal discussion groups (ie, GCPL Emerging Tech Team, WJ communities, or encourage your library to do this with new Webex we’re providing)In-house book discussion clubs on new business models, leadership, technology
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