{"id":14345,"date":"2016-02-03T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=14345"},"modified":"2019-02-26T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T19:23:24","slug":"web-literacy-skills-for-library-staff-project-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/web-literacy-skills-for-library-staff-project-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Literacy Skills For Library Staff Project Kick-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\">\n<div class=\"gallery-row\">\n<div class=\"gallery-group images-1\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14346\" src=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1029-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1029\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On January 20, 2016, we kicked off a new project,<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1SYFmNN\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Web Literacy Skills for Library Staff<\/span><\/a> in collaboration with University of Washington, Technology and Social Change Group and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Project goals are:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">adapt and refine Mozilla\u2019s Web Literacy skills, curriculum, tools, and resources for public library staff and pilot in 5 public library systems and one library school of information;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">connect and convey these \u00a0core web literacy skills with digital badges; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">develop a strategy for scale to other public libraries across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the launch meeting held in Washington DC, the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B7kHRuri9QdPQnFWYXZScUlCLXc\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\"> project advisory board <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014consisting of representatives of IMLS, Mozilla, and an impressive group of experts in digital literacy, professional development, other kinds of innovative work and learning in libraries\u2014came together to guide and shape the project.\u00a0<\/span>The meeting began with a spectrogram activity that allowed us to surface and discuss different\/similar beliefs, ideas, and concerns about web literacy and libraries.<br \/>\nThe advisory board had the opportunity to learn more about Mozilla\u2019s mission, goals, and resources for learning and teaching web literacy skills. The discussions that emerged were rich and engaging. Key recommendations include: 1) keeping the primary purpose of the training in this project focused on equipping library staff with web literacy skills, and teaching to others secondary, and 2) presenting badges as connectors and an option, and not the driving force for professional development.<br \/>\n<b><i>Opportunities and Challenges<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We brainstormed opportunities and challenges to be aware of as we shape the project. A few opportunities discussed:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creating opportunities for librarians to become expert curators of content and online learning experiences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Providing library schools information graduates (and graduates from other programs working as library professionals) the opportunity to learn new technologies, and how to scan the environment for new technologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leveraging membership associations as entities that can provide professional development opportunities to their member organizations and their individual library staff members<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connecting to existing certifications provided by state library systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Equipping often under-resourced human resource departments with quality open source learning opportunities for staff<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Challenges surfaced include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engaging unionized workers as partners in empowering staff to develop new skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Empowering staff to gain new and update existing skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finding time to learn new skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Establishing a culture of lifelong learning for the library profession<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Navigating the decentralized nature of library systems<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14356\" src=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-03-at-6.16.58-PM-600x217.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-03 at 6.16.58 PM\" width=\"600\" height=\"217\" \/><br \/>\n<b><i>Next Steps<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Board members joined three subcommittees: pilot selection, evaluation, and scale\/sustainability. <\/span><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The immediate next step is \u00a0finalizing the selection criteria for pilots which will adapt and co-create with Mozilla open source web literacy curricula to develop training, tools and credentials for staff in public libraries. The potential to collaborate with Mozilla provides library staff the opportunity to be leaders, innovators, and advocates. Criteria will include: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diversity of staff in geographic distribution as well as diversity of experience, knowledge, and specializations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diversity of types of systems (e.g., rural\/urban, main\/branch, union\/nonunion, consortia\/non-consortia)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buy-in from the library leadership<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Willingness to contribute, refine and remix curriculum and tools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Willingness to share experiences with other sites and collaborate as a group<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The meeting concluded with a thoughtful discussion about scale and sustainability with several themes emerging: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leveraging opportunities for building the web literacy competencies into the professional development and credentials for library staff<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reaching out to organizations and leaders who should be engaged and\/or informed of the project and its goals<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Building on existing infrastructures and levers, such as associations, brands, library information schools, and current assessment tools<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Understanding challenges of technology infrastructures<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engaging future leadership now for long-term benefits<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20, 2016, we kicked off a new project, Web Literacy Skills for Library Staff in collaboration with University of Washington, Technology and Social Change Group and funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Project goals &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/web-literacy-skills-for-library-staff-project-kick-off\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[383888,388205,388365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}