Conference Session 125

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a strategy to build strong libraries and library associations

Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section with Management of Library Associations

Congress track 2: Policy, strategy and advocacy.

16 August 2011 09:30 - 12:45 | Room: 209

• Professional development, values and strategy - the means for building strong libraries for the future
  CATHARINA ISBERG (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Library, Alnarp, Sweden)
• Building strong libraries and library associations through continuing professional development: the case of Ghana Library
  Translations: [Français]
  RICHARD B. LAMPTEY and ABEDNEGO CORLETEY (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana)
• Successful models of CPDWL at the University of the West Indies, Mona
  KAREN TYRELL (University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica)
• How can libraries, librarians and library associations be or not to be successful in developing countries: the case of Minas Gerais Library Association, Brazil
  MARIA CLÉA BORGES and MARIA DE LOURDES CORTES ROMANELLI (Brazilian Federation of Librarians and Information Science Professionals and Institutions, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• An association-based continuing education certification program: The Library Association of Alberta pilot program
  SANDY CAMPBELL, DIANE CLARK and ALLISON SIVAK (University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada)
• Fifty ways to conduct continuing professional development and workplace learning: on a shoestring
  BLANCHE WOOLLS (San José State University, San José, CA, USA)
• Role of CPD in maintaining the intellectual capital of research libraries: a developing country prospective
  NOSHEEN FATIMA WARRAICH (Department of Library and Information Science; University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan)
• The CPD innovation in China: training for the grassroots
  WU YUE (Library Society of China) and HAO JINMIN (National Library of China, Beijing, China)
• Developing leadership competencies in librarians
  MARY WILKINS JORDAN (Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA, USA)