scottish library and information council sharing vision planning practice: information professionals...
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Challenges facing you as a Professional - Themes of my Presidential year Our relevance and value as a Profession Customer care Information literacy Partnership and collaboration Corporate informationTRANSCRIPT
Scottish Library and Information Council Sharing Vision Planning Practice: Information Professionals in FE
Annual Event
Rising to the Challenge
Ivor Lloyd, CILIPS President27th November 2006
Challenges facing your Services – You are not alone!
• Reduced book issues?• Reduced footfall?• Impact of electronic resources?• Reduced funding?• Threatened by external standards?• Single Status/Framework Agreement?• Redundancies?• Not sure what the punters want anymore?• Staff losing will to live?• So where are we going?
Challenges facing you as a Professional -Themes of my Presidential year
• Our relevance and value as a Profession• Customer care• Information literacy• Partnership and collaboration• Corporate information
The Advent of the Cybrarian!
• Fusion of our traditional skills with digital environments
– new opportunities for us and the profession in new information environments
The Advent of the Cybrarian!
• Information architecture
– applying classification, indexing, thesauri building techniques to improving the organisation and retrieval of information from on-line environments
The Advent of the Cybrarian!• Education and working with educational
technologies
– helping others makes sense of cyberspace and accompanying issues of information overload
– using educational technology to enhance information literacy skills teaching
The Advent of the Cybrarian!
• Helping organisations make sense of their corporate information
– information retrieval– records management – knowledge management
Challenges facing you as a Professional• Our relevance and value as a Profession• Customer care• Information literacy• Partnership & collaboration• Corporate information• Information & knowledge strategy• Continuing professional development• Engagement with CILIPS
The Role of CILIPS and SLIC
• Advocacy and Persuasion• Changing political environment• CILIP (London) financial situation
Huge Potential, Often Not Realised
• Change is required - and is achievable!• Impact!• Fun!• Passion!• Rising to the Challenge – Are you up for
it?