Encouraging Experimentation and Creativity through Professional Development:  Turning our Failures into Best Practices

Piekart, Amanda; Lafazan, Bonnie; Kiebler, Jessica

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Encouraging Experimentation and Creativity through Professional Development: Turning our Failures into Best Practices

dc.audience	College Library
dc.contributor.author	Piekart, Amanda
dc.contributor.author	Lafazan, Bonnie
dc.contributor.author	Kiebler, Jessica
dc.contributor.department	Berkeley College - New Jersey
dc.contributor.department	Berkeley College - White Plains
dc.coverage.location	Standish Room
dc.coverage.location	New Jersey
dc.coverage.temporal	2018-05-04T14:30:00-07:00
dc.coverage.temporal	2018-05-04T13:30:00-07:00
dc.date	2024-04-03T15:57:40.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T08:10:46Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T08:10:46Z
dc.date.issued	2018-05-04
dc.description.abstract	Without a dedicated librarian in charge of training and development, our librarians are empowered to experiment and explore professional development opportunities to grow within the profession. Several librarians within our department have taken initiative to create a wide range of internal development experiences that foster growth and dialogue. This session will present the best practices we have identified through our missteps and failures from several internal professional development initiatives. From a weeklong conference to a bi-weekly collaborative newsletter, we have learned how to tackle failures such as lack of participation, confusion from complex processes and overlooked event logistics. Each of these failures has expanded our capacity to reflect and take future risks in order to encourage a culture of robust professional growth. Participants will learn the impact that buy-in has on implementing a successful initiative. In order to create success from missteps, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the importance of soliciting and using feedback. Participants will also recognize the value of offering a wide range of opportunities and formats that allow people to contribute in their own ways. Through reflecting on failures and refining approaches, librarians can learn how to create an environment where they are committing themselves to their organization, profession and their own life-long learning education.
dc.description.abstract	This session will present the best practices we have identified through our missteps and failures from several internal professional development initiatives. Through reflecting on failures and refining approaches, librarians can learn how to create an environment where they are committing themselves to their organization, profession and their own life-long learning education.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7275/nk3t-g698
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/646
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1102&context=acrl_nec_conf&unstamped=1
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	Administration, Management, and Leadership Professional/staff development Teaching and Learning
dc.subject	professional development
dc.subject	Library and Information Science
dc.title	Encouraging Experimentation and Creativity through Professional Development: Turning our Failures into Best Practices
dc.type	presentation
dc.type	event
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:adp@berkeleycollege.edu\|Piekart, Amanda
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:bla@berkeleycollege.edu\|institution:Berkeley College - New Jersey\|Lafazan, Bonnie
digcom.contributor.author	isAuthorOfPublication\|email:jessica-kiebler@berkeleycollege.edu\|institution:Berkeley College - White Plains\|Kiebler, Jessica
digcom.identifier	acrl_nec_conf/2018/presentations/11
digcom.identifier.contextkey	11389813
digcom.identifier.submissionpath	acrl_nec_conf/2018/presentations/11
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