... technology Professionals Continuing professional development Keywords Publishing, Multimedia, New technology, Professionals,Continuing professional development Abstract The demand for professionals qualified for handling multimedia services and products has increased significantly in recent...

...Bev Labbett Seeks to give librarians a picture of the continuing professional development opportunities being developed at the University of East Anglia for those interested in the lure of inquiry and the development of new skills to operate in a changing professional environment. But a librarian...

... experience of writing and subsequent dissemination was one of significant career development for the author, a point made more symbiotic by the subject of the book, mentoring. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Continuing professional development Mentoring Publishing Having selected the title about...

... professional development Europe Libraries Skills © MCB UP Limited 1997 New challenges are facing public library managers in the information society. Above all, issues in developing the human resource in public libraries including teambuilding, teamwork, new communication and cooperation...

... programme for librarians follows. This article and others reporting results from the research can be located at TAPin’s home page at http://www.uce.ac.uk/tapin/tapin.htm . Continuing professional development Electronic books Internet Technological change Training Libraries and learning...

... programme? © MCB UP Limited 1996 Career development Continuing professional development Librarian development Professions Self‐development Per ardua ad astra ‐ anyone who has got beyond the title of this column is by now probably thinking, what on earth is she talking...

...Susan Cameron The organizational context in which an industrial information unit operates is important. If a company does not have a formal structure in place for continuing professional development (CPD), it can be difficult for the information professional to pursue “sponsored” CPD events...

... to aim for becoming “an accredited centre” for NVQs. Or you could latch into any existing accredited centre. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Continuing professional development Librarians National vocational qualifications Qualifications Strategic management Training How often, when...

...,showing similarities between the post‐course needs of university and S/NVQ students, and the scope of the Information and Library Studies Lead Body′s work. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Continuing professional development Education Libraries National vocational qualifications Qualifications...

... in the workplace at levels 3 onwards as part of their ongoing continuing professional development, across a range of skills, both LIS‐based and other managerial. Assuming that initial education has helped to create imaginative, flexible, thinking individuals, NVQs which recognize work‐related skills may have some...

... qualifications that currently exist. Also addresses the links with undergraduate and postgraduate courses in universities and how VQs could sit alongside them. Seeks to place VQs in the context of continuing professional development (CPD) and the attainment of chartered librarian status and the move to higher...

...Judith Elkin Analyses how the departments and schools of library and information studies (LIS) in the UK might contribute to continuing professional development (CPD). Looks at the diversity of the profession, outlines the changing natures of LIS professional education, and considers some areas...

...Patrick Noon Continuing professional development is one of the major attributes that defines professional status. The LA′s new Framework for CPD provides an innovative and useful tool to help those in the library and information profession to take responsibility for their own CPD. But why...

... idea of continuing professional development is very similar. Back in September 1992, the Library Association launched its Framework for Continuing Professional Development, with every member receiving their own copy of Your Personal Profile[ 1 ]. I remember receiving mine,looking...

...Pat Heynes Examines the problems of pursuing continuing professional development as perceived both by library assistants and their management. Based on discussion, with library assistants, about the training they receive from their authorities, covers both public and academic libraries. Aims...

...Mike Freeman The arrival of continuing professional development (CPD) in the public consciousness of librarianship is a relatively new phenomenon, spurred on by rapid change in the information sector, “technological push”,obsolescence of initial professional qualifications and societal changes...