Activity: Review yourself against ALIA’s Foundation Knowledge, Skills and Attributes relevant to Information Professionals working in Archives, Libraries and Records Management.
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My aligned skills prior to placement |
- Knowledge of the broad context of the information environment.
- The purposes and characteristics of information architecture, organisation and access.
- Processes and practices relating to information management.
- Information sources, services and products.
- General employability skills.
- Professional development.
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- The historic context of information.
- The current and changing contexts of information.
- How information can be analysed and interpreted by professionals and by users.
- The relevant ethical, legal and policy issues, including privacy and copyright.
- Respectfully acknowledge, learn about and understand our First Nations peoples.
- Understand the underpinning theory and practice of information management.
- Work collaboratively with information technology service providers.
- Identify user requirements and the processes that will meet them.
- Enable, provide and promote information access and use.
- Document the context within which information lies.
- Understand and explore how information is effectively sought and utilised.
- Support the organisation to respond to digital transformation.
- Identify and investigate information needs and information behaviours of patrons/wider community.
- Design and delivery customised information services and products.
- Identify and evaluate information sources, services and products.
- Use research skills to provide appropriate information to users.
- Turn information into knowledge.
- Market information services and products.
- Communication and interpersonal skills.
- Critical, reflective and creative thinking.
- Customer service.
- Development of governance and information frameworks.
- Digital literacy to manage and use multiple technologies.
- Ethical standards and social responsibility.
- Financial and budgetary management.
- ICT application.
- Leadership and mentoring capabilities / supervisory.
- Problem-solving.
- Research methods.
- Risk assessment.
- Self-direction and management.
- Training and development.
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