Scottish Library and Information Council Sharing Vision Planning Practice: Information Professionals in FE Annual Event

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Scottish Library and Information Council Sharing
Vision Planning Practice Information
Professionals in FE Annual Event

• Rising to the Challenge
• Ivor Lloyd, CILIPS President
• 27th November 2006

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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?

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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 information

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The Advent of the Cybrarian!

• Fusion of our traditional skills with digital
  environments
• new opportunities for us and the profession in
  new information environments

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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

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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

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The Advent of the Cybrarian!

• Helping organisations make sense of their
  corporate information
• information retrieval
• records management
• knowledge management

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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

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The Role of CILIPS and SLIC

• Advocacy and Persuasion
• Changing political environment
• CILIP (London) financial situation

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Huge Potential, Often Not Realised

• Change is required - and is achievable!
• Impact!
• Fun!
• Passion!
• Rising to the Challenge Are you up for it?