Professional Development

Chris Miller - cjm267@cornell.edu Susan Kendrick - sfk23@cornell.edu

Mentoring

• New librarians
  • New to locale or to profession
  • Lunch or coffee with CPD
  • New Librarian's cohort
  • New Librarian's wiki

Areas for Professional Development

• Technology
• Emerging Technology / Lunch'n'Learn / Tech Talks
• 23 Things (SLA, UK, 'Blue 2.0')

Networking

• Happy hours
• Speed networking -- most popular event
• Bake-off
• Ask-a-Colleague Wiki
• Baseball games/picnics
• Professional Development Week

Brown bags - what other people are doing...

• Degree in Creativity
• Research trip to Iceland
• Hip Hop Collection Overview

Personal Improvement

• Photography (Effective, Copyright, For the Web)
• Genealogy
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• "StrengthsFinder" Top 5 Strengths -- developer, includer, positivity, ideation, empathy

Professional Improvement

• Survey Series - "How to do effective surveys"
  • Brown bag
  • Survey research
  • Panel session
• Writing / publishing / speaking group(s)
• Journal Reading Club