MLA TDG Group Minutes – June

ICT Diploma MLA Minutes June07

 Attached are the latest minutes from the MLA Training & Development group. There was a presentation from the SQA (Scottish Qualifications Agency) about their Diploma in Applications of ICT in Libraries qualifications, which I have also included. The Diploma is aimed at those in public libraries, but many of the units are relevant to those outside of public libraries as well. Below is a link to their site and also their website for the diploma which has the diploma handbook and descriptions of units, as well as wiki books for each unit. The wiki books are open access and contain resources for each unit. I’ve had a quick look and they look as if they could be a really useful resource. There is a wiki book for ‘Carrying out the Educator Role’, which I think might be useful to include as a resource for unit 4 of APPLE. It includes resources on learning styles,TNA’s, motivating learners and feedback form design.
SQA Site
http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/1.html

Diploma in Applications of ICT in Libraries Resource page
http://www.ictl.org.uk/page_05.htm

I’ll also add previous minutes of the group and the terms of reference of the group, to give an idea of the function of the group.

Professional Blog Directory for WMHLN

Susan Smith, one of the 3Cs graduates, has created a page on Knowledge Workers’ Wiki titled “Professional Blog Directory” http://wish.wikispaces.com/Professional+Blog+Directory as the directory of Weblogs of information workers in the West Midlands.  If you maintain a personal blog on professional issues, do join in!

Customer-focused, Collaboration and Communities: the New Model of Library Services … Take Two (3CsT2)

For the past 9 weeks, 11 colleagues have been working on the virtual learning course, “Customer-focused, Collaboration and Communities: the New Model of Library Services … Take Two (3CsT2), and have completed all the course assignments.  You may find details of the course together with all the participants’ blogs representing their journeys of learning on http://3cst2.wordpress.com.

The very first 3Cs course which took place last winter can be found on http://threecs.wordpress.com

LLUK National Occupational Standards

LLUK Interim Report 

LLUK have just launched the web consultation for libraries & archives on the occupational standards.  Attached is the interim report on the development of the standards.  The deadline for the comments is 10th August.   The link for the web consultation is below.

http://www.lluk.org/currentactivity/libraries/lais_nos_questionnaire.html