Lean Library Partners with Skilltype to Create Librarian Futures Community and Support Librarian Learning
SAGE Publishing
25 Apr 2022
Cooperation Agreements
Lean Library, a ‘Technology from SAGE’ company, is pleased to announce its partnership with Skilltype, a global training platform for librarians. Lean Library will utilize Skilltype’s innovative platform to curate and showcase its product training, events and webinars, providing librarians with recognition for the skills and knowledge acquired, whilst also enabling greater networking amongst Lean Library’s library partners. Lean Library and Skilltype will also develop a new community for Skilltype members, Librarian Futures, to share and solicit debate and ideas about the evolving role of the librarian. This will build on Lean Library’s 2021 global consultation, which culminated in its Librarian Futures report.
The partnership will begin with the creation of a curated community feed, Librarian Futures, through which members can access articles, webinars and thought pieces relating to the future of the library, alongside sharing ideas and discussion with fellow librarians, which will help to further expand the conversation around the role of the librarian in the digital age. As with Lean Library’s Librarian Futures report, the feed will differentiate from other discourse on ‘the future of the library’ by focusing on what this means for librarians and their evolving roles and skills.
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