Educating the Profession

Seadle, Michael; Chu, Clara M.; Stöckel, Ulrike; Crumpton, Breanne

doi:10.1515/9783110375398

2016

DOI: 10.1515/9783110375398

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Educating the Profession

Michael Seadle¹,

Clara M. Chu²,

Ulrike Stöckel³

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Career Development in African Librarianship

Sturges¹

2015

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African librarians need to embrace enormous changes in technology and in social and economic circumstances during the course of their careers, but the methods that the profession should use to renew itself are not clear. At present the emphasis is on the possession of diplomas and degrees, but there is no special reason to believe that adding a second (master's) degree to a bachelor's in LIS appreciably increases the professional expertise of an individual library worker. Furthermore, the PhD (now increasingly sought) is a research degree and of debatable relevance for most kinds of higher library posts. It is argued in this paper that continuing professional development (CPD) is more capable of delivering the necessary new skills and professional orientation. The profession, through its library associations, needs to discuss the problems of career development with policymakers; persuade employers to modify their qualification-based appointment and promotion requirements; and encourage and support professional associations in providing more CPD opportunities.

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