Maintaining professional competence : impact of organizational and individual factors on the updating activities of public reference librarians
Notice bibliographique
Résumé
The purpose of the dissertation is to examine the role of selected individual characteristics and organizational factors in affecting the participation of reference librarians in updating activities to maintain their professional competence in the light of rapid developments in technology. Concerns about the obsolescence of skills of the aging workforce of professional librarians, together with a lack of knowledge about the extent of professional development at the individual level prompted this study. The conceptual framework is based on theoretical foundations in organizational behaviour, psychology, gerontology, education and information studies. The independent variables in the conceptual framework are motivation, barriers to participation, age, professional commitment, updating climate and managerial support. The dependent variable is participation in updating activities. Information on the study variables was collected from 297 reference librarians working in large urban public libraries in Ontario, outside of Toronto, by means of a mail survey questionnaire in Spring 2001. Libraries have an aging workforce: the average age of reference librarians was 46.9 years. Analysis of the data revealed that managerial support was instrumental to participation in both formal and informal activities. Motivation was an important predictor of participation in informal activities. Age, particularly feeling old, and part-time status had a negative impact on participation levels in formal and informal activities. Barriers to participation had a negative effect on participation in informal activities and paradoxically, updating climate had a negative effect on participation as well. This study contributes to a better understanding of the process of maintaining professional competence among reference librarians. The results point to the important role that organizational factors play in the process. A supportive manager is key to librarians' participation in both formal and informal updating activities. Written policies on training and development are needed. The links between updating and rewards need to be emphasized as well as the provision of the appropriate rewards for updating. For older workers, intrinsic rewards are the valued rewards. Part-time status reduces opportunities for updating, yet as libraries come to rely on part-time librarians, their updating needs should be addressed. Finally, providers of formal updating courses should provide distance learning opportunities.
Récupéré en direct depuis OpenAlex et désinversé. Les résumés ne sont pas conservés dans cette base de données : les index inversés représentent 8,6 Go des 9,3 Go de texte de la base, et le serveur dispose de 13 Go libres.
Comment cette classification a été obtenuedéplier
Prédiction distillée sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Apprise à partir de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et de 10 348 étiquettes directes de Gemma. Le mode candidate est l'union des têtes enseignantes seuillées; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont ni des étiquettes humaines ni des étiquettes directes de modèles de pointe.
Scores Codex et Gemma par catégorie
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Communication savante | 0,000 | 0,003 |
| Science ouverte | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,004 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule tête enseignante, pas un consensus.
Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».