After briefly presenting INCITE’s main research projects on LIS competences development and professional qualifications, this paper discusses this Association’s contribution to the redesign of LIS professional competences trajectories among adults in labour contexts, namely the movement from a pilot experience of constructing three LIS educational and vocational training frameworks, in 2004, to an active participation in the strategical task force led by the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP) and the National Agency for Qualifications (ANQ), in 2007. This second task is expected to produce a National Qualifications Catalogue (CNQ), based on a constructive approach of lifelong learning capable of enriching what one may call a network of praxis and academia studies. This paper also proposes a reflection on the role of professional associations in prioritising lines of research and strategic positions capable of moulding the present and future of LIS competences and qualifications and of extending the range of possible choices in a framework adapted to the national level of competences asymmetries. Finally, it is pointed out that in Portugal the introduction of changes in LIS competences profiles and praxis are more effective in vocational training models than in educational models.

1. Towards a new model of LIS competences management in Portugal Implications for the praxis and academia studies Paula Ochôa Leonor Gaspar Pinto The Portuguese Association for Information Management Librarian@2010 – Educating for the future Lisbon, 19 th - 21 st September 2007

19. Training Guide (Referencial de Formação) and competencies certification National Qualifications Catalogue http://portal.iefp.pt Professional Profiles Training Guides

20. Training Guide (Referencial de Formação) and competencies certification Training Guide Adult education and vocational training

24. Skill development model [2] Cognitive competences (knowing in action) learned in LIS courses Environment (workplace and LIS roles), members and stakeholders Personal characteristics and past performance LIS social image Perception of role Skill Perception Organization characteristics Role Objectives (Who, when, whom and how) Performance Evaluation Professional identity: competence profile Previous Factors Role dynamics Mediators factors LIS Euro-Guide Competences · Observed/perceptioned Results (self-image and external image) Higher education courses: modularization, application orientation, practitioner teachers and quality assurance Professional Certification (level 3) INCITE’s strategy

25. Skill development model [3] Outcome expectations Academic goals Professional Values Identity learning cycles Productivity Efficiency Learning transfer: social/organizational. Employability Real behaviour in work context Motivation Outputs : individuals/ organizationals – RESEARCH ISSUES 1st level Individual effects Career development 2nd level individual effects Competences’deve-lopment priorities: competence portfolio Training / action/ Coaching/ validation: skills identification Key Experiences: work learning cycles LIS Euro-Guide Competences INCITE’s strategy

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