Unique benefits of conference attendance as a method of professional development for LIS professionals

Serials Librarian

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-270

  Harrison, Rachel ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits of conference attendance; Conferences; Continuing education; Professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957759733     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2010.489353     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Although the concepts of professional development and continuing education are not identical, they share sufficient similarities to be used interchangeably in this article.
2. Robert D. Vega and Ruth S. Connell, Librarians' Attitudes Towards Conferences: A Study," College & Research Libraries 68, no. 6 (2007): 503.
3. Michelle McLean, "VALA Conference 2008," Library Hi Tech News 25, nos. 2/3 (2008): 6.
4. Pamela M. Salela, "ACRL in Chicago: ACRL programs at the ALA Annual Conference," College and Research Library News 70, no. 8 (2009): 438-450.
5. Blanche Woolls, "Keeping Up: Staff Professional Development," School Media Activities Monthly 25, no. 9 (May 2009): 55-57.
6. McLean, VALA Conference 2008,6.
7. Barbara J. Parker, What Makes a Professional Conference Worth Attending?Strategic Finance (March 2007): 13-14.
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9. Vega and Connell, Librarians' Attitudes Towards Conferences: A Study,503.
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11. Rosina Alaimo, "Top Six Reasons to Attend a Conference," Knowledge Quest 33, no. 1 (2004): 34-35.
12. Woolls, Keeping Up: Staff Professional Development,55.
13. Robert Tomaszewski and Karen I. MacDonald, "Identifying Subject-Specific Conferences as Professional Development Opportunities for the Academic Librarian," The Journal of Academic Librarianship 35, no. 6 (2009): 583-590.
14. Alaimo, Top Six Reasons to Attend a Conference,34.
15. Anne M. Turner, "Exhibits Are Valuable, After All," Library Journal 129, no. 9 (2004): 60-61.
16. Vega and Connell, Librarians' Attitudes Towards Conferences: A Study,506.
17. Turner, Exhibits Are Valuable, After All,61.
18. Parker, What Makes a Professional Conference Worth Attending?,1.
19. Vega and Connell, Librarians' Attitudes Towards Conferences: A Study,503.
20. Ibid., 508.
21. Alaimo, Top Six Reasons to Attend a Conference, 35.
22. Vega and Connell, Librarians' Attitudes Towards Conferences: A Study, 507.
23. Ibid., 507.
24. Alaimo, Top Six Reasons to Attend a Conference, 34.
25. The term "subject-specific conferences" as used here includes both conferences in a specific subset of librarianship (AASL for example, or the North American Serials Interest Group conference) and conferences in an academic discipline (for example, the Modern Languages Association or Classical Association of the Middle West and South conference).
26. Tomaszewski and MacDonald, Identifying Subject-Specific Conferences as Professional Development Opportunities for the Academic Librarian, 583.
27. Andrew Osborn, The Crisis in Cataloging,Library Quarterly 11 (October 1941): 393-411.
28. Alaimo, Top Six Reasons to Attend a Conference, 34.