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LIBRARIES AND THE EVER CHANGING JIGSAW Being prepared: a matter of approach Biddy Fisher CILIP President. Four pieces of the jigsaw . Professionalism Strategy Research Emerging voices. Is Professionalism implicit?. Professionalism embraces ethics, conduct and philosophical standing
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LIBRARIES AND THE EVER CHANGING JIGSAW Being prepared: a matter of approach Biddy Fisher CILIP President
Four pieces of the jigsaw • Professionalism • Strategy • Research • Emerging voices
Is Professionalism implicit? • Professionalism embraces ethics, conduct and philosophical standing (Social Justice) • Society demands professionals recognise Public Trust • Public Service demands principles (Nolan principles of public life)
Strategy based on • Professional knowledge • Assessment of needs • Best practice
Research and the evidence base • Evidence based Library and Information Practice • EBLIP 2011 • Systematic reviews • Cochrane collection
More jigsaw pieces • Emergence of new voices • Critical mass of new communications • Assertion of democratic rights • Critical commentary of process • Resource shifts and implications
Emerging voices • New entrants and career changers • Fringe and related individuals or bodies • Parent organisations • Patient and community
Communications & interactions • Speaking by typing • Social media • Remote connections • Harvesting this is a new art
Resources ‘ain’t what they used to be’ • Fitting resources to available funds • Identifying a model for the future • Concentrate on core business • At the same time • Determining standards of service to society • Leading on professional issues
Future approach and the professional context • Less formal; more personal; decreased regulation? • More localised networks? • More dependency on individual or local values? • Identified with a smaller group of service specific users? • Based on the dialogue with consumers
Maintain ethical and professional competence • Forge political and social partnerships • Change traditional representative bureaucracies in favour of flexible structures • Capture creativity • Undertake and use social & economic analysis
Requirement to review positions • Self/Organisation/Educators/ Employer • Skill set/evidence/experience • Routes to competent professional • Relevance to society/community
It is all too easy and too tempting to train people beautifully for yesterday’s work and to pay too little heed to creating the work of the future” • Charles Handy 1998. Beyond Certainty