Timeslip Services

Category: Information Professions

  • Competency M

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    Competency Statement: Demonstrate professional leadership and communication skills. Introduction As librarians and information professionals, our objectives are based on the information-seeking success of our users. Communication skills are necessary to teach users information literacy and information retrieval, which can then be facilitated toward the synthesization of information into new ideas. Once people become self-sufficient providing…

  • Competency N

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    Competency Statement: Evaluate programs and services using measurable criteria. Introduction Providing programs and services to our information communities can run the risk of not being helpful and completely avoided if there are no mechanisms in place to know whether they are serving their purpose well. This competency enables information professionals to evaluate programs and services…

  • Competency A

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    Competency Statement: Demonstrate awareness of the ethics, values, and foundational principles of one of the information professions, and discuss the importance of those principles within that profession Introduction For this competency, the values of community, the foundation of intellectual freedom, and legal ethics, such as copyright and licensing, are important to information professionals as they…

  • Competency B

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    Competency Statement: Describe and compare different organizational settings in which information professionals practice. Introduction Upon entering an organization, information professionals may find themselves having to adapt to roles and situations with different information needs beyond managing documents and data. It is critical that information professionals understand the working environments that rely on their skills and…

  • Competency D

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    Competency Statement: Apply the fundamental principles of planning, management, marketing, and advocacy. Introduction In recognizing that adjusting to a competitive and changing environment will help it thrive, it is inevitable that information organizations have structures to implement change, which is time-consuming and costly. Projects may encounter obstacles at any point that can affect the morale of…