Library Federations and the development of professional competencies for librarians and information specialists: Arab Federation for Libraries and Information as a model.

Bentayeb, Zineb; Reyaee, Sulaiman

	Library Federations and the development of professional competencies for librarians and information specialists: Arab Federation for Libraries and Information as a model.
iraqi journal for information
Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 65-97
Authors
Zineb Bentayeb; Sulaiman Reyaee
Abstract
The higher academic preparation in departments and institutes of library science and information studies is no longer able to face on its own all the digital developments and the rapid and numerous technological novelties generated by the transformations and changes introduced in the world for centuries and which have become able to affect deeply the profession of libraries and information in terms of work and its environment as a concept. Consequently, it has become an obligation for these departments and institutes to assemble their efforts with those of the other parties that are active in the process of academic preparation on their top library unions and professional associations that are considered as a mediator between the academic institutions and their external environment thanks to their ability to know the details of the facts and to monitor the new developments and needs by virtue of their presence in the heart of the professional environment. In the investigation of the role of unions comes this study in order to identify, on the one hand, the library unions’ participating ways in developing and promoting the library and information professional competencies with an insistence on the participation of the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information (AFLI) in this context as the major and the most distinguishing professional union in the Arab world, and on the other hand, the ways and mechanisms adopted by the latter for the sake of improving the quality of the library and information specialist’s professional competencies in the Arab world. We adopted an analytic study concerning the different training programmes organized by AFLI in the form of training courses and workshops … that helped us to collect significant data that may enhance a fruitful debate and contribute to the building of development plans for the profession.
Keywords
Library union; Library profession; Quality of professional competencies; Arab Federation for Libraries and Information; Mechanisms for academic preparation; analytical study

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