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5 Ways Your Library Can Use Competencies
Video tips from David Lee King for how libraries can apply competencies to aid your or your staff's training, professional development, and performance on the job. |
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ALA 2010 Building with Competencies
Power point slides and handout for the presentation by Betha Gutsche, WebJunction Program Manager, and Sandra Smith, Denver Public Library Training Manager. |
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Competencies for Libraries
An overview of how competencies can be used in a library, with real-life examples and suggestions from library staff |
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Competencies for Preservation
Preservation covers a wide range of activities: repairing the physical damage to well-used materials; transforming physical materials into digital format; or preserving the historic record or other notable resource collections. |
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Competencies for Social Networking in Libraries
Social networking is infused into many library services. Here is a list of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will help library staff achieve competence in this area. |
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Competency Cavalcade
Archive and associated resources for December 9, 2010, webinar on library competencies with Michael Porter, David Lee King, Sandra Smith and Betha Gutsche. |
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Competency Evaluation Results: Library Management
WebJunction asked the library field to evaluate themselves on selected library management competencies. Here is a summary of the findings, along with an attached PDF of the survey results. |
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Competency Evaluation Results: Technology
WebJunction asked the library field to evaluate themselves on selected technology competencies for libraries. Here is a summary of the findings, along with an attached PDF of the survey results. |
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Competency Index for the Library Field
A compilation of competency statements that address a broad spectrum of library service and practice. |
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Competency Success Stories for Your Library
Archive and associated resources for April 20, 2010, webinar on library competencies with Michael Porter, Elizabeth Iaukea, Pat Carterette and Betha Gutsche. |
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Core Competencies for Library Staff
How competencies help to identify skills and knowledge gaps that target training toward what will help keep libraries viable. |
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Library Leadership Competencies
Library Leadership-related Competencies excerpted from the Competency Index for the Library Field. |
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Library Staff Competency Collections
A list of competencies documents from a variety of libraries and library organizations. |
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Pierce County Library System's 'Skills & Qualities'
In this document we have tried to define the core skills and qualities every employee needs to be successful at PCLS. Our goal was to create a short, universal list of personal skills or qualities (some call them “behavioral competencies”). This list of skills and qualities serves as the foundation for how we handle hiring, evaluation, and staff training at PCLS. |
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Real Library Solutions Using Competencies
Archive and associated resources for September 16, 2010, webinar with Sandra Smith and Betha Gutsche on Competencies as building blocks to staff success. |
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Sustaining Public Access Computing Programs: Technology and Management Com
Managing the library's public computer programs, keeping the equipment operable, and satisfying the patrons using them involves a host of skills and knowledge. |
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Tech Training Skills for 21st Century Library Staff
Archive and associated resources for August 11, 2011, session with Crystal Schimpf, Kieran Hixon, and Nancy Trimm as part of Trends in Library Training and Learning online conference. |
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Technology Competencies in Your Library
Archive and related resources from the April 29, 2009 webinar about using Technology Competencies to define, assess and develop staff skills in your library. |
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Technology Trainer Competencies
Assisting patrons with technology is an increasingly common responsibility for public library staff. However, simply knowing how to use technology is not enough. Library staff must now be equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively instruct patrons in technology. Crystal Schimpf, Nancy Trimm, and Kieran Hixon (Colorado State Library) have developed competencies for technology trainers that focus on the skills needed to teach technology, whether in a classroom and on an individual basis. |
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The Change Competencies
Defining a set of fluid competencies for change to address an evolving profession. |
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