In order to structure our discussion, and facilitate a dialogue between those who comment, we will divide the discussion according to the sections of the draft document. We will move to the Library Management competencies on Thursday. Your comments are solicited on additional statements of required skills, as well as proposed revisions to the language describing the current statements. Also appropriate here are general comments about skills and competencies documents generally, and what they mean in other professions. In the library community, the Special Libraries Association engaged in a similar effort at identifying the unifying skills for special librarians during the 90s.
Examples exist also in the medical, accounting and other professions.
I look forward to a stimulating discussion. Kay M. Todd Sr.