IN DEPTH
Thinking ahead, amplifying values: Delivering the new PKSB
When CILIP produced a report into the Professional Future of the library and information landscape in 2010, it signalled start on work to create the Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB). The PKSB has provided a robust framework for the skills needed by the profession, as we approached the third decade of the 21st Century. In this article Keith Wilson explains why the time is now right for a revised PKSB.
CILIP’s Professional Knowledge and Skills Base (PKSB) has been the profes- sional standard for skills and knowl- edge since 2013. It was a critical part of a wide range of reforms coming out of the Defining our Professional Future report (DoPF) published in 2010. Sig- nalling new directions for CILIP and the profession in a confident, ambitious, understandable and useful framework of skills and expertise, it had to make a compelling case to organisations and communities as well as to CILIP mem- bers.
DoPF was based on extensive member consultation, offering views on some possi- ble major new skill priorities in the profes- sion by 2020. These included open source software, cloud computing, mobile and virtual working, automated data extraction and metadata generation, digitised resourc- es and e-publishing, delivering training and teaching. Directions for practice included greater collaboration and more partner- ships, implications of commoditisation of information, equality of access, libraries at the heart of changing communities, infor- mation security.
The previous PKSB
A Task and Finish Group, supported by large-scale consultation and member
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Keith Wilson is a Construction Information Consultant, Vice-Chair of British Standards Society, Treasurer of IFAN (International Federation of Standards Users), Director of CompetentRoofer Ltd (licensed regulations approval certifier),
DirectorofFederationofMasterBuildersLtd (audit and risk). He was Chair of the PKSB Task and Finish Group (previous version) and Chair of PKSB Working Group (revised version).
surveying, produced the previous body of professional knowledge that was very different to its predecessor. Organised into topics and sub-topics, for the first time it integrated guidance into each. Skills essential for employment generally offer guidance relating them to professional prac- tice and expertise. Ethics and Values was at the heart of the standard. Wider Organisa- tion and Environmental Context and Wider
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