Post on 17-Jul-2015
New Information ProfessionalsWe are young, promising…
...and we are librarians!
Zdeněk Hruškazd.hruska@gmail.com
student @ KISKdigital librarian @ Moravian Library
member @ NIP CZ
Who is NIP?
New information professional is:
● Recent graduate and/or student or
“newcomer”.
● “New” is not necessarily young!
● Specific group with specific needs,
knowledge, abilities and working habits.
NIP Groups● NIP groups are platforms which are
established to protect interests of NIP.
● Often being a part of professional library
organizations: o British CILIP Career Development Group
o Latvian LLA Section of New Professionals
o U. S. LLAMA New Professionals Section
NIP Groups
● Virtual or social network groups: o German LIS New Professionals Deutschland
o Finnish Young Librarians
NIP CZWho? Why? When?
● IFLAcamp, Finnland, 2012o IFLA New Professionals Special Interest Group
(NPSIG)
● Many new NIP from Europe o Czech Republic - Anna Vyčítalová
New experience, contacts, friends
NIP CZ
● First Librarian’s Barcamp, May 2013
● Idea of NIP CZ by A. Vyčítalová
● Support by Association of Libraries of Czech
Universities (AKVŠ)
Important question:
Who are Czech NIP?
NIP CZ
● Survey - 22 questions, 30 response○ Age, job position, qualification, ...
○ Attitude to further education and professional
associations.
● Well qualified but some problems - i. e.
cataloguing or work with information
resources.
NIP CZ
● Positive attitude towards further learning:o They prefered especially common professional
courses and seminars (83%)
o E-learning courses and webinars (75%)
o Self-education (42%)
● Majority of NIP (64%) would like to go
abroad for internship.
NIP CZ
● No interest in membership in Czech
professional associations. o 7% of NIP are members of SKIP and 3% are
members of AKVŠ working groups
● 30% of NIP were interested in activities of
international associations such as IFLA or
LIBER.
NIP CZ
● First official meeting - September 2014
● NIP Barcamp o Our stories.
o Our achievements and losses.
o What we want.
o What we can offer to the community.
o Some official stuff
NIP CZ
Goals:
● We want to listen but we want to discuss too!
● We can advise our colleagues in certain
fields - i.e. Social networks, ...
● We want share our ideas and cooperate with
others.
NIP CZ
Goals:
● Discussion between libraries and LIS schools
- we want to be part of it.
● International cooperation.
● Events and non-formal meetings.
NIP CZ
If you want to know more:● Music Library Student Group (MLSG) - HOME. (n.d.). Retrieved December 25, 2014, from
http://www.musiclibrarystudents.org/
● New Professionals Worldwide. (2014, October 5). Retrieved December 27, 2014, from http://npsig.wordpress.com/new-
professionals-worldwide/
● Next Generation Network. (2014). Retrieved December 21, 2014, from
http://www.cla.ca/Content/NavigationMenu/CLAatWork/Networks1/Next_Generation_Netw.htm
● New Generation Advisory Committee. (n.d.). Retrieved December 27, 2014, from https://www.alia.org.au/NGAC
● UP FLIPP. (n.d.). Retrieved December 27, 2014, from http://upflipp.org/
● ERÜ Noorteklubi. (n.d.). Retrieved December 21, 2014, from http://noorteklubi.weebly.com/
● Section for New Professionals. (n.d.). Retrieved December 27, 2014, from http://www.archives.org.uk/about/sections-
interest-groups/new-professionals.html
● LLAMA New Professionals Section. (n.d.). Retrieved December 27, 2014, from http://www.ala.org/llama/llama-new-
professionals-section
If you want to know even more:● Vyčítalová, A. (2013a, April). Mladí informační profesionálové v České republice? Paper presented at Knihovnický
Barcamp 2013. Retrieved from: http://prezi.com/ntnqxlk7j1l9/mladi-informacni-profesionalove-v-ceske-republice/
● Vyčítalová, A. (2013b, October). Příležitost pro české nové informační profesionály. Paper presented at Bibliotheca
Academica 2013. Retrieved from: http://www.akvs.cz/aktivity/ba-2013/ba2013-vycitalova.pdf
● Vyčítalová, A. (2013c). Zaostřeno na nové informační profesionály: (IFLAcamp a Library Creative Laboratory). Ikaros,
17(8).
● Vyčítalová, A. (2014a). CZ NIP Barcamp: program [blogpost]. Retrieved from:
https://nipcz.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/cz-nip-barcamp-program/
● Vyčítalová, A. (2014b, September). Mladí a nadějní: hyn se ukáže do roka a do dne! Paper presented at CZ NIP Barcamp.
Retrieved from: http://prezi.com/f8elfbu1qtkw/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
● VYČÍTALOVÁ, A. (2014c). NIP CZ - noví informační profesionálové v českých vysokoškolských knihovnách. ITLib:
Informačné technólogie [in print]. 2014. ISSN 1335-793X.
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