Skills LIS Students Need and How Practitioners & Educators Can Collaborate to Provide Them

1. Skills LIS Students Need and How Practitioners & Educators Can Collaborate to Provide Them From One Adjunct Instructor’s Perspective Bobby Bothmann Metadata & Emerging Technologies LibrarianMinnesota State University, Mankato Adjunct Instructor Graduate School of Library & Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. Overview • Desired Competencies • Competencies LIS Teaches • Competencies LIS Practitioners Offer • The Intersection of the Competencies • Collaboration Opportunities All images used are

3. Definitions Competence (Competences) Competency (Competencies) Merriam-Webster Online Industry jargon An ability or skill • Oxford English Dictionary • 4.a. Sufficiency of qualification; capacity to deal adequately with a subject.

4. ALA Core Competencies • Foundations of the Profession • Information Resources • Organization of Recorded Knowledge and Information • Technological Knowledge and Skills • Reference and User Services • Research • Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning • Administration and Management http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/careers/corecomp/corecompetences

5. Instructor Wish List • Critical thinking • Curiosity • Holistic visioning • Open-minded listening • Patience • Time management Source: Facebook Poll

6. Competencies We Teach Typically Taught Possibly Included by Some Original vs. Copy Cataloging Research & Publication Technological applications • Authority control • Descriptive cataloging • Classification schemes • Standards • Subject analysis Source: Hall-Ellis, 2008

7. Skills LIS Practitioners Offer • Administrative awareness • Authority control • Descriptive cataloging • Classification schemes • Collaborative initiatives • Communication • Holistic visioning • Organizational management • Original vs. Copy Cataloging • Research & Publication • Standards • Subject analysis • Technological applications Source: ALA 2009; Bello and Mansor, 2013; Hall-Ellis, 2008; MAGERT, 2008

8. Necessary Competencies • Administrative awareness • Advocacy & Outreach • Authority control • Classification schemes • Collaborative initiatives • Communication skills • Critical thinking • Descriptive cataloging • Holistic visioning • Interpersonal skills • Multilingual proficiencies • Open-minded listening • Organizational management • Original vs. Copy Cataloging • Patience • Project Management • Standards • Subject analysis • Technological applications Source: ALA 2009; Bello and Mansor, 2013; Halll-Ellis, 2008; MAGERT, 2008

9. The Intersection Shared LIS Competencies Unclaimed Competencies Advocacy & Outreach Communication skills Critical thinking Curiosity Interpersonal skills Multilingual proficiencies Open-minded listening Project management • Administrative awareness • Authority control • Classification schemes • Collaborative initiatives • Descriptive cataloging • Holistic visioning • Organizational management • Subject analysis

10. What is Left Over? • Advocacy & Outreach • Communication skills • Critical thinking • Curiosity • Interpersonal skills • Multilingual proficiencies • Open-minded listening • Project management • Original vs. Copy Cataloging • Technological applications • Collaborative initiatives • Holistic visioning

11. The Lego Effect Project Management Skills LIS Equivalents Descriptive cataloging Papers, presentations, etc. Group projects Group projects; degree design Classification/Subject analysis Reference interview; Case studies • Attention to detail • Communication • Leadership • Negotiation • Organization • Recognizing and solving problems

12. Holistic Visioning • Holism: tendency in nature to produce wholes from the ordered grouping of unit structures • What skills do you have that can be re-purposed for this competence?

14. Collaboration Options • Mentoring • Practicums • Professional organizations Source: Bothmann, 2007

15. Perspective

16. Sources • American Library Association. 2009. “Core Competencies of Librarianship” http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/careers/corecomp (Accessed 9 January 2014) • Bello, M. A. and Y. Mansor. 2013. Strengthening Professional Expertise: Mentoring in Knowledge Transfer, the Cataloguers’ Perspective. The International Information & Library Review 45, (3-4): 139-148. • Bothmann, Robert L. 2007. Meeting the Needs of Special Format Catalogers: Ideas for Professional Organizations, Library Schools, and Professional Catalogers, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 44 (3-4): 221-232. • FaceBook poll, 14 January 2014. • Hall-Ellis, Sylvia D. 2008. Cataloger competencies ... what do employers require? Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 46, (3): 305-330. • MAGERT Education Committee. 2008. “Map, GIS and Cataloging / Metadata Librarian Core Competencies.” http://www.ala.org/magirt/sites/ala.org.magirt/files/content/publicationsab/MAGERTCoreComp2008_rev2012.pdf