(EBRD), Caroline Carruthers (Carruthers and Jackson), Biddy Casselden (North- umbria University), Dominic Gilroy (NHS HEE), Karen McFarlane (Independent Professional), Tanya Williamson (Lancas- ter University), Mark Berryman, Jo Cornish, Matthew Dyer and Sonia Ramdhian (all CILIP). It had a valuable research base to start, just like its predecessor, which formed three drivers of our work:
l The 2019 CILIP Member Research, which consulted 6,000 members of the knowledge, information and library workforce. The results showed their view of CILIP’s purpose was clear: A profes- sional association and a place of quality to further careers and skills;
l Key areas of growth and development for the sector. This included the CILIP response to the Health Education England (HEE) Topol Review, which led to an HEE funded Technology Review examining the impact of advancing technologies on the sector. It also included the demand for the newly created of CILIP Chartership for Knowledge Managers;
l The 2020 work on the Professionalism Definition by CILIP.
The foundation of our work was a thorough review of ethical principles of professional practice. Critical sources included CILIP’s Ethical framework, CILIP BAME Network and key stakehold- ers, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Each sub-topic review, refresh, rewrite or addition was overlaid on to equality diversity and inclusion.
Telling stories
Most previous PKSB topics have been expanded and in some areas, such as literacies, considerably so. A few have gone or have changed with the times. There were some deep discussions about the detail and especially taking account of representations and consultations. Dis- cussions ranged from members’ likely role in taxonomy and ontology, the position of records management in the profes- sion, using the word ‘customer’, quality reliability and truthfulness, supporting new directions in public library practice,
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and the expansion of research as a skillset throughout the profession. The topic Lit- eracies and Learning has been expanded and deepened based upon increasing general needs, ranging from community vulnera- bility and exclusion to economic value for businesses. Of the new sub-topics in this PKSB, Computational sense was added towards the project’s end and after a review of feedback and consultation.
One of the sub-topics that has increased in breadth and depth is storytelling. Its value and associated skills have been long known in public librarianship. Since the current PKSB was published, storytelling skills have become more important in knowledge management and data manage- ment, appearing in course curricula and on the essential skills list of role specifica- tions. Each branch of the profession uses storytelling in different ways, yet there are common and underpinning skills. Our goal was to bring this to the surface while avoid- ing possible conflicting information. The new PKSB builds on previous data sub-topics considerably, by adding Data Management as a new topic and recognis- ing it as a CILIP community of practice. Our sponsor encouraged this. The Working Group was fortunate in having influential Data professional Caroline to help to focus this work. We believe that its position in the revised PKSB provides a welcome to non-member practitioners who do not feel sufficiently supported by CPD and academic opportunities, or by communi- ties where data science and coding is not the overwhelming focus, or do not have the opportunity of a chartered qualification. For members, it helps show CILIP’s long- term commitment.
Presentation Towards the end of the project, we turned attention to how the new PKSB could be presented, and how its users could get the most from it.
We have ordered the topics into two broad areas as before, Professional Expertise and Generic Skills. Within these, they are arranged alphabetically, to avoid unintentional precedence. The sub-topics are generally organised by the impact they bring to the topic as a whole, an assessment of possible demand by employers and clients, and possible relationships with other topics. We aimed to keep the same principles of writing that were used in the previ- ous PKSB. The results were then edited and compiled by Dominic and Jo. Each topic is capable of being self-contained and also collocated by users, to reflect the assessment of their current practitioner needs, interests and future planning. Users are encour- aged to use the new PKSB to form an armature of core topics and sub-topics, on to which a expansive and diverse range of sub-topics from even seem- ingly low relevance topics are added. This could be to help them explore possibilities, future-proof or plan, for personal professional research, CPD or general understanding. Immovable in personal PKSBs is the ethical founda- tion. Constantly moving and changing are Wider Organisation and Environ- mental Context, and Wider Library Information and Knowledge Sector Context. IP
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