Transcript Visiting Professor of Information and Learning

INTEGRATION AND THE NEW PROFESSIONALISM
Bob McKee
Chief Executive, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals (CILIP)
Visiting Professor of Information and Learning Services, University of
Worcester
University of Salford
8 July 2008
[email protected]
“Information skills are needed more than ever and at a
higher level if people are to really avail themselves of the
benefits of an information society”
“Information behaviour of the researcher of the future”.
Study commissioned by the British Library and JISC
UCL, January 2008.
“The UK economy is fast approaching a point where the
Knowledge Economy will contribute 50% of UK Gross
Domestic Product (GDP)”
“Developing the Future 2007: a report on the challenges
and opportunities facing the UK software development
industry”. Microsoft, City University, BCS, Intellect
“The technologies of libraries and computer services are
converging and recognition of this convergence and the
development of service strategies that accommodate and
reflect this convergence, will result in a more rational
and effective service for the user.”
“The future development of academic information
services”. Harris and Ellison. University of Salford
(internal report) October 1987.
“There is a high degree of inter-dependence between all
three of these areas (librarianship, information science,
and information management) and the potential for
mutually beneficial interaction is great indeed. The case
for this potential being achieved more effectively via a
single unified organisation….. must be very strong
indeed.”
“Towards a unified professional organisation for library
and information science and services: a personal view”.
Wilfred Saunders. L A Publishing. 1989.
Why converge (one)?
 advances in technology
 improved services for customers
 more effective use of resources
 aggregation reflects importance
Why converge (two)?
 growing need for structured corporate information
 changes in teaching and learning
 the changing nature of content delivery
 rethinking academic library service
“Taking stock of convergence” John Akeroyd. CILIP
Update, September 2007.
“Ultimately it is people – not structures – who deliver
services, and working together depends more on creating
the right climate than finding the right design.”
Sheila Corrall “The turn of the wheel: projects and
politics at the University of Southampton” in “Managing
academic support services in universities: the
convergence experience” ed. Terry Hanson, Facet 2005.
“The vision of convergence… was and is predicated on
the existence of a group of individuals who …exist….. in
spite of the professional development
routes….available.”
Terry Hanson, Facet 2005.
Information
services libraries
Information
systems computing
convergence
Information
behaviours –
learning and
teaching
Information
management leadership
A new professionalism (one)
 value of regulation
 closer engagement with employers
 competencies, currency, and CPD
A new professionalism (two)
“Librarians teach…….. Our effectiveness and credibility
as teachers will depend on our recognition that learning
and teaching development is a core element of our
professional identity. This also means that we should
have teaching and learning as a key element of our
CPD”.
Chris Powis, “Towards the professionalisation of teaching”
in “Relay” (CILIP UC&R), April 2008.
A new professionalism (three)
“We are moving to a post-disciplinary world where
traditional knowledge boundaries are being supplanted
by a career and industry-led HE market, and where
teaching and research become ever more linked to the
needs of external stakeholders”.
David Bolton, Dean, School of Informatics, City
University, in “Developing the future 2007”.
A new professionalism (four)
Customers
• behaviours (flexibility
and adaptability)
• generic skills (e.g.
around learning)
• competencies
• core skills (e.g.
information literacy)
• currency
• CPD
Consequences
Information
 driving the knowledge economy
 enabling learning and teaching
 connectivity, content, competencies
Technology
 convergence: library, computing, media
 unification: library, information, knowledge
 technology transforming learning
Transformation (one) – a new paradigm for provision
 information management
 information services
 information systems
 information behaviours
Transformation (two) – a new paradigm for professionalism
 cuts across traditional boundaries
 gets closer to employers
 gets out of its comfort zone
 focuses on outcomes
 centres on competency and currency
 takes personal responsibility for CPD
Realising the vision
 convergence through institutional structures:
information, technology, learning
 unification through professional cultures: flexible,
confident, can-do, go-to
 information: driving innovation
 professionalism: enabling enterprise
INTEGRATION AND THE NEW PROFESSIONALISM
Bob McKee
Chief Executive, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals (CILIP)
Visiting Professor of Information and Learning Services, University of
Worcester
University of Salford
8 July 2008
[email protected]