The Revise and Enlightenment of the SLA's Competency Standard

  • Liu Yongjie ,
  • Lu Mingfang
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  • Library of Jishou University, Jishou 416000

Received date: 2016-11-17

  Revised date: 2016-12-08

  Online published: 2016-12-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] The revise of the standard of SLA's competencies is analyzed to provide appropriate references for the development of librarian competency standards in China. [Method/process] The four version standards early or late of the SLA's competencies, including its revises on name of competencies, structure elements and contents of terms, are studied by using comparative analysis and content analysis. [Result/conclusion] The name of SLA's competencies, structure elements, and contents of terms have changed through three revisions; audiences of the standard of SLA's competencies are more and more extensive, and gradually extending to all the information professionals; the information professionals' core competencies on managing information and knowledge resources, performing information and knowledge retrieval and analysis, organizing information and knowledge assets, developing information and knowledge systems and technologies, carrying out information and knowledge services, and building information ethics, are more and more highlighted in the standard of SLA's competencies; the elements of SLA's competencies are more and more detailed, and the core businesses covered are more and more comprehensive. All these above can provide many enlightenments to the development of library professional competencies in China.

Cite this article

Liu Yongjie , Lu Mingfang . The Revise and Enlightenment of the SLA's Competency Standard[J]. Library and Information Service, 2016 , 60(24) : 26 -31 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2016.24.004

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