Now you are registered: a guide to revalidation

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Now you are registered a guide to revalidation

• Allison Dobbie

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Now you are a RLIANZA

• CONGRATULATIONS
• You have made a worthwhile investment in your
  career
• Now what?

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Today we will cover

• What is revalidation?
• Why do we have it?
• How does the process work?
• How does the journal work?
• What counts as professional development?
• What do you need to do?
• Some tips

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1. What is revalidation?

• 3 yearly process for renewal and confirmation of
  your LIANZA professional registration
• Requirements are
• That you maintain and apply the core knowledge,
  skills, attributes and ethics of a library and
  information professional
• That you proactively keep your knowledge and
  skills up to date and apply these in practice
• That you record your professional development
  activities
• That you submit a journal as evidence
• Professional registration is not a one off
  occurrence it is a constant state

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2. Why do we have revalidation?

• Demonstrates that we are professionals
• We have a specific body of knowledge and code of
  ethics
• We keep our knowledge and skills current
• Fundamental part of being a professional
• Builds credibility and standing
• Customers
• Employers
• Colleagues
• Library Associations elsewhere (reciprocal
  arrangements)
• Achieves the benefits of a professional
  registration scheme
• Regular review process is standard practice for
  all professional registration schemes, regardless
  of the profession
• Standard practice for library associations
  elsewhere eg. UK, Australia

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3. How does the process work?

• Every 3 years RLIANZAs are asked to submit
• a journal which records
• Professional development activities undertaken
• Learning derived from each activity
• a brief summary and reflection of individual
  professional development during the 3 year period
• a letter of verification from the employer or
  another registered professional
• You are notified 3 months in advance of when your
  journal is due
• Revalidation material must be received within 6
  months of this date
• Professional Registration Board reviews this
  material
• If requirements are met satisfactorily your
  registration is renewed
• New certificate issued
• Online register updated
• Continue to use RLIANZA after your name

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4. How does the revalidation journal work?

• Documents training and development
• Helps focus training and development efforts
• Helps assess what you learn
• Based on the 11 Body of knowledge areas
• Based on 4 domains of professional practice
• Journal template is online just copy it to your
  own computer

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The Body of Knowledge elements

• The information environment, information policy
  and ethics, history
• Generation, communication and use of information
• Assessment of information needs and design of
  responsive services
• The information transfer process
• Organisation, retrieval, preservation and
  conservation of information
• Research, analysis and interpretation of
  information
• Application of ICTs to products and services
• Information resource management and knowledge
  management
• Management of information agencies
• Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of
  outcomes
• Awareness of indigenous knowledge paradigms,
  especially Maori

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The Domains of professional practice

• Currency of professional knowledge
• Activities which help keep knowledge and skills
  up to date, e.g. reading, study, attending
  workshops, conference, weekend schools
  knowledge in
• Professional practice and responsibility
• On the job practice and application of skills
  improved competency through on the job practice.
  Includes reports, projects, new initiatives
  implemented, new roles undertaken knowledge
  applied
• Communication and professional relationships
• Proactive communication and sharing of knowledge
  and expertise building and using strong and
  effective relationships to help learn from
  others, e.g. publications, conference papers,
  visits, contribution to list serves, etc
  knowledge shared
• Professional leadership
• Leadership and management, taking initiative,
  leading and supporting others, mentoring,
  advocacy, contributing to improved professional
  practice, taking initiative, organising and
  enabling others.

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Revalidation journal requirements

• 10 activities a year
• Something in each of the 11 Body of Knowledge
  areas
• Cover 3 of the 4 professional practice domains
• Comment on what you learned and how you applied
  it reflection
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What is the Professional Registration Board
looking for?

• Quality rather than quantity
• Relevance of activities to the role held by that
  person
• Spread of learning across all areas and across
  the whole period
• Evidence of reflection the depth of learning
  gained
• Where possible, relate learnings to the Code of
  professional conduct, and the personal qualities
  of library and information professionals
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Summary of my revalidation activity in 2008

• 11 activities in 12 months - target is 10
• Activity in BOK 1,2,3,4,7,9,10,11
• Therefore next year seek out activity in 5,6,and
  8
• Target is at least 1 activity for each BOK over 3
  years
• Activity across all 4 domains
• Target is 3 domains across all 11 areas over 3
  years
• I have developed my own template to record
  activities as I go, then assign the BOK, capture
  learnings and transfer to my online journal later
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Example from my journal BOK 4
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5. What counts as professional development?

• ? On the job training
• ? Promotion / professional
• recognition
• ? Networking
• ? Visits
• ? Course attendance
• ? Research or study
• ? Project or report
• ? Mentoring
• ? Secondment or job swap
• Involvement in work or
• professional committee
• ? Scholarly publication
• ? List serve discussion
• ? Presenting or attending conference
• session

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6. What do you need to do?

• Read all the guidelines about the revalidation
  process thoroughly - allow an hour
  http//www.lianza.org.nz/registration
• Download the journal template to your own
  computer and maintain it as an online journal in
  excel format there is one page (worksheet) for
  each Body of Knowledge area
• Alternatively print it and maintain as a hardcopy
  journal
• Record all relevant professional development
  activity and your learnings / application of that
  learning
• Submit your journal within 6 months of the
  reminder
• Ensure you have covered all the requirements
• Complete the cover sheet, including
• brief self assessment of your development over
  the period, including any explanation for why
  the criteria might not have been met,
• your signature that the information is true and
  correct
• Include a letter of verification from your
  employer or another RLIANZA

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7. Some tips

• Record activities as you go.
• Develop a template to enable you to do this
  quickly so that you can select the BOK and
  transfer information to your journal later
• A conference or weekend school can be many
  activities, not just one.
• Select papers which are most meaningful to you
  and record these.
• Networking at a conference can be of equal
  importance.
• Especially where learnings are applied or result
  in other development activities eg visits
• As far as possible, use reading, everyday
  activities and LIANZA meetings as the basis of
  your professional development.
• Big training budgets are not essential

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.. more tips

• For each activity choose the BOK that appears to
  be the best fit.
• This is not an exact science and does not warrant
  undue stress or time.
• Consciously plan to cover areas of the BOK that
  are of less immediate relevance or interest.
• Read the BOK description and find an aspect that
  interests you or could impact your work in future
  so that you are prepared.
• Keep entries brief and succinct.
• Look at the examples on the LIANZA website.
• The most important part of the process is your
  reflection on what your learned and how you
  applied this.

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In conclusion.

• Start working on your revalidation journal now
• Explanatory material available on LIANZA website
• Revalidation guidelines
• Body of knowledge details,
• Journal template
• an example of an completed journal
• www.lianza.org.nz/registration
• Remember, its worth it because you are worth it.
• This is an investment in your career and the
  profession.