The website Librarianship.ca has compiled a list of Competencies for Information Professionals developed by associations and other professional bodies.
The list breaks down into many categories, including:
- Academic Librarianship
- Archives
- Assessment
- Collections Management
- Data Management
- Government Librarianship
- Information / Document / Records Management
- Law Librarianship
- Library Technicians
- Metadata and Cataloguing
- Reference and Information Services
- Scholarly Communications
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries in recent years has prepared two documents on what it calls Professional Development Pathways:
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Implementing CALL/ACBD Professional Development Pathways:
"The Canadian Association of Law Libraries, through the Professional Development Committee, will make best efforts to provide a broad array of professional development opportunities that are designed to build members’ knowledge and skill in the following areas:
- Collection Development, Cataloguing, Metadata and Information Organization
- Information Technology
- Instruction
- Knowledge Management
- Leadership, Management and Professionalism
- Reference and Research Services
- Substantive Law"
- CALL/ACBD Professional Development Pathways (list of competencies)