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Investing in the Knowledge Bank: digital currency for all our digital futures

Virginia Power, Graduate Tutor/PhD StudentUniversity of the West of England

CILIP Conference 2015 - LiverpoolDigital Futures – 2nd July 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGccQFxi3U

1.New technologies will both expand and limit who has access to information.2.Online education will democratise and disrupt global learning.3.The boundaries of privacy and data protection will be redefined.4.Hyper-connected societies will listen to and empower new voices and groups.5.The global information environment will be transformed by new technologies.For more information go to http://trends.ifla.org/

http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/

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People with library and information science degrees are putting their skills to work in all kinds of interesting places. But the places may not be libraries, and the job titles may not say “librarian.”

http://www.nextlibraries.org/2014/01/its-a-good-day-to-be-a-librarian/

Power Timeline….• Film/Video Technician – School Libraries Service• Weekend Assistant – University Library• School Library Manager• LRC Manager and NLN Mentor• Learning & Development Co-ordinator• Call Centre Learning Manager• South West Lifelong Learning Network Co-ordinator• Jisc Regional Support Centre South West Advisor• LRC Manager• Managing Digital Collections Advisor• Graduate Tutor/PhD Student

MSc. Information Management @UWEInformation Contexts (30 credits) - an introduction to key information issues in a selection of professional environments together with over-arching themes such as information as a human right, understanding user information needs and fostering partnerships.Knowledge Organisation (30 credits ) - essential practical skills, including metadata, mark-up and classification, and current issues in digitisation, digital collection management and digital curation.Information and Digital Literacy (15 credits) - investigating theories for assessing and using information resources, and how to teach digital literacy skills with a study of the range of digital tools available for personal information management.Personal and Organisational Management (15 credits) - essential professional skills for the information specialist, including communication, networking, presenting, and people, project and financial management.

You also choose two optional 15 credit modules from:Information and Knowledge Management Designing the User ExperienceInformation Architecture and Web Design Big DataData Management

Research• Both studies conducted in 2014• UK study small scale – 40 job roles• US study – 450 jobs!• Development of a skills matrix (UK)• Development of a training matrix (UK)

Emerging Career Trends for Information Professionals:A Snapshot of Job Titles in Summer 2014http://ischool.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/content_pdf/emerging_career_trends_2014.pdf

Overview of US findings- 2014• 51% (32%) required significant technological skills or

were tech-centred jobs (networks, metadata, digital assets, databases)

• 70% (21%) of listings emphasised the use of statistics or analysis

• 57% (43%) required reference or research skills• 43% (32%) required management skills• 24% teaching or library instruction skills

Emerging Career Trends for Information Professionals:A Snapshot of Job Titles in Summer 2014http://ischool.sjsu.edu/sites/default/files/content_pdf/emerging_career_trends_2014.pdf

Team workingFlexibilityInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsOrganisational skillsCultural awarenessLeadership skillsCustomer serviceWorking independently

Core (Key Skills)

Emerging trends…• Digitisation of library materials • Preservation of digital materials• Expansion of digital collections• Track, analyse & report data• Provide technical & data services• Implement & provide instruction of new & emerging

technologies• Data & information security/governance

FLUID, HYBRIDISED, TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENT

“There’s a huge range of opportunities for someone with a degree in the field, and it’s constantly evolving. How you think about and apply your skills is limited only by your imagination.”Sandy Hirsh

Technologies will come and go. Change is inevitable. But if librarians can adapt to and embrace change, can easily learn technologies, can keep up with changes in the profession, can plan for new services and evaluate old services, can develop services that meet the needs of all stakeholders, can evaluate technologies, and can sell their ideas and market services they will be better able to meet the challenges of changing user populations and changing technologies. Meredith G. Farkas

We are the people who can create KNOWsense out of NO sense and can apply this in whatever field we choose

Virginia Power

• The role of data informing decision-making• New approaches to collecting, analysing and using data• Using analytics to develop new services and improve the user

experience• The opportunities of library data as big data• Role of library analytics uncovering new opportunities to

demonstrate impact and value• Open, Open, Open

The future IS bright….

• Communication Skills• Marketing & Promotion Skills• Ability to embrace change• Comfort in the online medium• Technology – troubleshoot, learn, be current, critically evaluate• Project Management skills• Systematic collection of evidence – impact & evaluation• Analytical skills• Social Informatics• Understanding of big data

Currency for our Knowledge Bank

Multiple literacies Academic linking Data reference services – find, analyse and support online data analysisTechnology championEthnographyStatisticsData sourcingSpatial dataVisualising dataLibrary Metrics Data programming or codingData management and archiving

Okay – so what is my USP?

Gap Analysis

Competencies & Support

• DigicurV• PKSB• KIM Framework

50 shades of ….CPD

http://cpd23.blogspot.co.uk/

http://woodsiegirl.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/taking-charge-of-your-continuing-professional-development-2/

http://www.gcmt.org.uk/portals/0/documents/50_ideas_for_cpd.pdf

Where do you start?New to data? School of Data: Data Fundamentals is a gentle introduction to basic data concepts, calculations in spreadsheets, and data analysis.Manage your research data with Mantra, a free intro to data management plans, data selection, storage, sharing, and more.NECDMC is a curriculum that you as a librarian can adapt to teach research data management (RDM) to your faculty and students. Includes module templates, slides, and case studies/examples.The Data Scientist’s Toolbox is a short MOOC that runs monthly on Coursera. Join the librarians’ study group on Google Groups if you’d like company.

http://databrarians.org/resources-for-databrarians/

http://databrarians.org/2015/02/hls-prepare-yourself-for-a-career-as-a-data-librarian/

Virginia.Power@uwe.ac.ukAll images used in this presentation are Creative Commons

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