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Skills LIS Students Need and
How Practitioners & Educators
Can Collaborate to Provide Them
From One Adjunct Instructor’s Perspective
Bobby Bothmann
Metadata & Emerging Technologies Librarian
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Adjunct Instructor
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Overview
Desired Competencies
Competencies LIS Teaches
Competencies LIS Practitioners Offer
The Intersection of the Competencies
Collaboration Opportunities
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Definitions
Competence (Competences)
Oxford English
Dictionary
Competency (Competencies)
Merriam-Webster
Online
Industry jargon
4.a. Sufficiency of
qualification; capacity
to deal adequately with
a subject.
An ability or skill
ALA Core Competencies
1.
Foundations of the Profession
2.
Information Resources
3.
Organization of Recorded Knowledge and Information
4.
Technological Knowledge and Skills
5.
Reference and User Services
6.
Research
7.
Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
8.
Administration and Management
http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/careers/corecomp/corecompetences
Instructor Wish List
Critical thinking
Curiosity
Holistic visioning
Open-minded listening
Patience
Time management
Source: Facebook Poll
Competencies We Teach
Typically Taught
Authority control
Descriptive cataloging
Classification schemes
Standards
Possibly Included by Some
Original vs. Copy
Cataloging
Research & Publication
Technological
applications
Subject analysis
Source: Hall-Ellis, 2008
Skills LIS Practitioners Offer
Administrative awareness
Organizational management
Authority control
Original vs. Copy Cataloging
Descriptive cataloging
Classification schemes
Collaborative initiatives
Communication
Holistic visioning
Research & Publication
Standards
Subject analysis
Technological applications
Source: ALA 2009; Bello and Mansor, 2013; Hall-Ellis, 2008; MAGERT, 2008
Necessary Competencies
Administrative awareness
Multilingual proficiencies
Advocacy & Outreach
Open-minded listening
Authority control
Organizational management
Classification schemes
Original vs. Copy Cataloging
Collaborative initiatives
Patience
Communication skills
Project Management
Critical thinking
Standards
Descriptive cataloging
Subject analysis
Holistic visioning
Technological applications
Interpersonal skills
Source: ALA 2009; Bello and Mansor, 2013; Halll-Ellis, 2008; MAGERT, 2008
The Intersection
Shared LIS Competencies
Unclaimed Competencies
Administrative awareness
Advocacy & Outreach
Authority control
Communication skills
Classification schemes
Critical thinking
Collaborative initiatives
Curiosity
Descriptive cataloging
Interpersonal skills
Holistic visioning
Multilingual proficiencies
Organizational management
Open-minded listening
Subject analysis
Project management
What is Left Over?
Advocacy & Outreach
Communication skills
Critical thinking
Original vs. Copy
Cataloging
Technological
applications
Curiosity
Collaborative initiatives
Interpersonal skills
Holistic visioning
Multilingual proficiencies
Open-minded listening
Project management
The Lego Effect
Project Management Skills
LIS Equivalents
Attention to detail
Descriptive cataloging
Communication
Papers, presentations, etc.
Leadership
Group projects
Negotiation
Group projects; degree design
Organization
Classification/Subject analysis
Recognizing and
Reference interview; Case
solving problems
studies
Holistic Visioning
Holism: tendency in nature to produce wholes from
the ordered grouping of unit structures
What skills do you have that can be re-purposed for
this competence?
Multi-lingual
proficiency
Ranganathan’s
Laws
Collection
Development
Admin &
Management
Courses
User needs
FRBR
Classification
Collaboration Options
Mentoring
Practicums
Professional organizations
Source: Bothmann, 2007
Perspective
Sources
American Library Association. 2009. “Core Competencies of Librarianship”
http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/careers/corecomp (Accessed 9 January 2014)
Bello, M. A. and Y. Mansor. 2013. Strengthening Professional Expertise: Mentoring in
Knowledge Transfer, the Cataloguers’ Perspective. The International Information &
Library Review 45, (3-4): 139-148.
Bothmann, Robert L. 2007. Meeting the Needs of Special Format Catalogers: Ideas for
Professional Organizations, Library Schools, and Professional Catalogers, Cataloging &
Classification Quarterly 44 (3-4): 221-232.
FaceBook poll, 14 January 2014.
Hall-Ellis, Sylvia D. 2008. Cataloger competencies ... what do employers require?
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 46, (3): 305-330.
MAGERT Education Committee. 2008. “Map, GIS and Cataloging / Metadata
Librarian Core Competencies.”
http://www.ala.org/magirt/sites/ala.org.magirt/files/content/publicationsab/MAGE
RTCoreComp2008_rev2012.pdf