23 Things for Professional Development

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Due to popular demand, the 23 Things for Professional Development programme is going to repeat, at a slightly slower pace, starting on Monday 7th May. Registration is now open on the blog! 

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CPD23 Thing 21 - Thing 23

Finally, I reached the latest (Thing 23) milestone in my CPD23 learning path by passing through the milestones 21 and 22. Here are my reflective and constructive steps...

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CPD23 - Thing 20: Career Path

I find both the Library Routes Project and the Library Day in the Life project interesting. These provide a platform for newbies and experienced library and information professionals for sharing benefits and challenges of LIS profession. 

I'm happy indeed to have chanced upon LIS profession wherein I could make a difference wherever I worked.  I believe library career is the right profession for those who are passionate about learning and sharing. 

I started my career as the librarian of a polytechnic college and designed and developed Library Database using CDS/ISIS.  Working with CDS/ISIS gave me the needed confidence for automating library operations.  Later, I joined ICFAI University as a Faculty Member and involved in designing and developing courseware for B.L.I.Sc. and M.L.I.Sc. distance learning programmes. Developing courseware for UG and PG programmes though challenging in the initial days, empowered me with the knowledge, skills and attitude required for a life-long learner. ICFAI experience not only fetched me opportunities for  developing and reviewing Self-Learning Materials for  Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University but also enabled me to do my Ph.D. in Open Distance Learning.  Now, I'm a volunteer co-facilitator for Integrating Technology  and researching on how to convert print modules into e-learning modules and also how to embed library components in Moodle courses.

CPD23 - Thing 19: Catch up week on integrating 'things'

Reached final week of CPD23 programme!!!  I am glad that I have been moving on a constructive learning path since 20th June. Learning activities enabled me to put the CPD things to practice in the intended manner. 
I liked the concept "profersonal". Glad that I could blog about the Indian Library Associations I'm associated with and also about LIS Education in India. 

I would like to include Evernote, Mendeley, Zotero in Information Literacy instruction programmes. Evernote enables students to collect, organise and share notes. Notes synchronization process is advantageous for students for accessing notes anywhere and anytime.  

Introducing reference managers Mendeley and Zotero to students would simplify their resources collecting, organising, citing, and sharing process. Web importer feature of Mendeley and Web connector feature of Zotero are useful for students to import web resources in to their accounts. And also sync process of both the reference managers enables students access their resources anywhere. Students find highlighting and annotating feature of Mendeley helpful in their research writing.