Competencies for Information Professionals

摘要

The theme of this European column is competencies for information professionals. I will be highlighting three recent discussions of competencies, two from Europe and one from the United States. These are 1. Skills for Knowledge Management, a briefing paper produced by consultants TFPL, on behalf of the UK's Library and Information Commission; 2. The Council of Europe's (CoE) draft New Professional Profiles and Competencies for Information Professionals and Knowledge Workers Operating in Cultural Industries and Institutions; and 3. The Special Libraries Association's (SLA) Competencies for Special Librarians of the 21st Century. (It was their recent report of their survey of library and information programs that redirected my attention to the competencies list.