UC Irvine

Breakout Sessions on what are the next steps for planning for future librarianship. The session will follow on the discussion from campuses on librarian attributes from the Committee on Professional Governance Final Report 2011. Librarians talk about what they want to be doing/or think they should be doing in the future and more specifically how they plan on actually doing these activities to support the initiatives of the UC Libraries and the University. How can we mobilize the “skills” identified for the next generation of academic librarians and how do they plan on acquiring these skills? On the job training, mentoring, recruitment, collaboration with other institutions with specialized knowledge and expertise [both with and outside of UC] i. Shared Service Models ii. Lighting Teams – The New Working Model? iii. Communications Models iv. Training and New Skills