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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">ALA’s Association for Library Services to Children has just released a revised edition of the competencies for librarians serving children in public libraries (press release and link to actual competencies below).
These are the things children’s librarians should know and do or be striving to learn and try. This is a great tool to identify what you’re doing well and what you need to work on, then use it to identify professional development opportunities in those areas.
It’s also a great tool for creating job descriptions.—Katie <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">New edition of Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries available<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has released a revised edition of its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a name="ALSC_Core_Competencies" id="ALSC Core Competencies"></a><a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/edcareeers/alsccorecomps" target="_blank" title="ALSC Core Competencies"><span style="color:#0055A5">Competencies
for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">ALSC recommends these core competencies to all children’s librarians and other library staff whose primary duties include delivering library service to and advocating library service
for children ages birth to 14.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">“These competencies represent the best of ALSC’s knowledge and experience serving children in libraries,” said ALSC President Andrew Medlar. “Thanks to the ALSC Education Committee
for putting so much hard work in to this new edition.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">Effective library service to children entails a broad range of experience and professional skills. The ALSC competencies seek to define the role of the librarian serving children and
touches upon seven knowledge and skill sets: commitment to client group; reference and user services; programming skills; knowledge, curation, and management of materials; outreach and advocacy; administrative and management skills; professionalism and professional
development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">“The ALSC Education Committee thanks everyone who participated in the feedback process,” said ALSC Education Committee co-Chair Nina Lindsay. "Children deserve the highest-quality service
and we feel that these competencies create a very high standard for library service to children."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">“Any librarian serving youth can use these in their library,” said ALSC Education Committee co-Chair Margaret Tice. “We also encourage the use of these competencies in library science
programs that contain youth service classes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">As an added bonus to ALSC members, free downloadable versions of the competencies also are available to print for training and workshops. The printer-ready PDFs were professionally
designed in a booklet format in color and in black and white.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries was created (1989) and revised (1999, 2009 and 2015) by the ALSC Education Committee, and approved by the ALSC Board
of Directors at the on 2015 American Library Association Annual Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#303030">The Association for Library Service to Children is the world's largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library
service to children. ALSC's network includes more than 4,000 children's and youth librarians, children's literature experts, publishers, education and library school faculty members, and other adults dedicated to creating a better future for children through
libraries. For more information about ALSC, please visit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a name="ALSC" id="ALSC"></a><a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc" title="ALSC"><span style="color:#0055A5">www.ala.org/alsc</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Katie Anderson, Youth Services Consultant
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