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Technology Core Competencies for CA Library Workers Online!
Submitted by Sarah Houghton, IT Section President
Technology Core Competencies for California Library Workers Library staff deal with technology every day. Technology competencies serve to help staff understand what is expected of them in terms of technological skills and knowledge. Technology competencies can also assist libraries in assessing staff training needs and developing an appropriate training program.
For the last few months, a taskforce from the Information Technology Section and the Continuing Education Committee have been working toward developing a set of Technology Core Competencies for California Library Workers. The Assembly and Executive Board approved the competencies, and they are now in place for all of the California Library Association.
This set of competencies is intended to serve as a base model for technology competencies among California Library Workers. California's libraries are incredibly diverse; there are many different types and sizes of libraries, different staffing, and different technology. The purpose of these competencies is not to be the guidepost by which all libraries measure technology skills, but rather to serve as a starting point for libraries to use in assessing their staff's technology proficiencies, and to assist libraries in building their own sets of tailored competencies to fit with their unique staff and library.
Posted on May 4, 2005 9:21 AM | Permalink