CPD: Professional Development – Continuing and Compulsory?
Patrick Noon
(the University Librarian at Coventry University. He is a
member of the SCONUL Advisory Committee on Staff Development, and is on
the Committee of the LA Personnel Training & Education Group)
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Abstract
Continuing professional development is one of the major attributes that defines professional status. The LA′s new Framework for CPD provides an innovative and useful tool to help those in the library and information profession to take responsibility for their own CPD. But why is the scheme only voluntary? Would making CPD compulsory improve the service we deliver to our users and improve our professional image? Uses examples from other professions to explore this important issue.
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Citation
Noon, P. (1994), "CPD: Professional Development – Continuing and Compulsory?", Librarian Career Development, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 4-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/09680819410073202
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1994, MCB UP Limited