Presentation for the CILIP New Professionals' Information Day at London, 1st Oct 2010

1. The Global Profession: theoverseasperspective Find The Passion – the career that lets you work with the things you love CILIP New Professionals Information Day Friday 1st October, London Nicolás Robinson-García EC3ResearchGroup University of Granada

2. Who am I? Why Library Studies? Whybecomeinvolved? Whatisgoingonoutthere? Do research and professiongohand in hand? Puttingthepiecestogether

3. Who am I?

4. Degree in Library and InformationStudies Master in ScientificInformation Who am I?

5. Researcher Journalist Translator Eventsorganizer Interpreter Teacher Techno-geek Bibliometrician Research-adviser Librarian Who am I?

6. Who am I?

8. KeenoninformationtechnologyWhy Library Studies?

9. Library Studies in Spain Three-year Diploma in Librarianship Two-yearDegree in Library and InformationStudies One-year Professional/ResearchMaster PhDThesis (3 years) AssistantLibrarian Librarian Subject-basedLibrarianorResearchAssistant Researcher/Lecturer Why Library Studies?

10. Workplacement July 2005 Working at the local newspaper Firstprofessionalexperience Did my share of journalism! Startedtolovetheprofession Wrotefirstarticlefor a scientificjournal! Why Library Studies?

12. … findingjobopportunities

14. … publicspeaking

16. … making a difference!Whybecomeinvolved?

17. Library associations in Spain Whybecomeinvolved?

18. What do we do? Annualforum Training courses Professional prizes Whybecomeinvolved?

19. Translating IFLA August 2008 August 2009 August 2010 Whatisgoingonoutthere?

20. Whatis IFLA about? International Federation of Library Associations Founded in 1927 1600 membersfrom 150countries 5 Divisions 6 CoreActivities 48 Sections 12 SpecialInterestGroups 5 JointActivities Whatisgoingonoutthere?

21. Whatis IFLA about? International Federation of Library Associations Aims Promotehighstandards of library and infomationservices Encourageunderstanding of thevalue of libraries Representtheinterests of membersthroughouttheworld Whatisgoingonoutthere?

22. Whatis IFLA about? International Federation of Library Associations Some of thethingsthey do Database of successstories Guidelines Internet Manifesto, IFLA/Unesco ManifestoforMulticultural Libraries Whatisgoingonoutthere?

23. Whatis IFLA about? International Federation of Library Associations Howtogetinvolved Papers Grants -> Adopt a student! Volunteering Membership StandingCommitteemembers Whatisgoingonoutthere?

24. Doingresearch May 2007 WorkingonInformationRetrieval Nov 2008 DoingBibliometrics Linguistictreatment of questions in Spanishforquestionclassification in questionansweringsystems Do research and theprofessiongohand in hand?

25. Moya Anegón, F.; Jiménez Contreras, E.; Moneda Corrochano, M. (1998). Researchfronts in Library and InformationScience in Spain (1985-1994). Scientometrics. 42 (2):229-246 Bibliometrics Sametopic And now? Do research and theprofessiongohand in hand?

26. Theydon’tinteractanymore!! Do researchand theprofessiongohand in hand?

27. What do we do at Science and ScientificCommunicationEvaluation Professionaly-orientedresearchgroupvia… … bibliographictools, dissemination and professional training onBibliometrics Do researchand theprofessiongohand in hand?

28. What do we do at ScientificEvaluation Agencies EmbeddedLibrarian Bibliometrics Training coursesforlecturers Science 2.0 Evaluation of scientificjournals Training coursesforacademiclibrarians Do researchand theprofessiongohand in hand?

29. TheEmbeddedlibrarian Do researchand theprofessiongohand in hand ?

30. TheEmbeddedlibrarian Works for a customer’sgroup (researchgroup) Respondstogroup’sinformationneeds Works hand in handwiththeresearch leader Creates virtual workspacesforitsusers Works outsidethelibrarywithintheuser’senvironment Do researchand theprofessiongohand in hand ?

32. Dissemination of pre-print once thepaper has beenaccepted

33. Data curation and informationretrieval

34. Monitorisation of impactof thepaperthroughbibliometricindicators

35. Pre-printsmanagement: Journal’sinstructionforauthors

36. Criteriafromevaluation agencies in ordertodeveloppublicationpolicies

37. Journalselection and submissionprocess

38. Up to date informationregardingresearchfundingproposalsDo researchand theprofessiongohand in hand ?

39. Puttingthepiecestogether

40. Puttingthepiecestogether

41. Youreapwhatyousow Puttingthepiecestogether

42. And remember… Neverunderestimate de importance of a Librarian (Idea kindlydonatedbyElsevier)

43. Thankyou! Blog:http://entreolasdeinformacion.blogspot.com Twitter: @nrobinsongarcia Slideshare:http://slideshare.net/figaro LinkedIn:http://es.linkedin.com/in/nicolasrobinson Find The Passion – the career that lets you work with the things you love CILIP New Professionals Information Day Friday 1st October, London Nicolás Robinson-García EC3ResearchGroup University of Granada

44. Chart of theWorldonMercator’sprojection: Daniel Lizars (1831) | Librarians – Thethinblue line betweenyou and the FBI | Map of Spain 1790 – Uhanu | Premio de investigación de la AAD al GrupoEC3 – Daniel Torres Salinas | Nieves – DídacMargaix | shinystarleaffringedweirdly in tarrymoongate – Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | Puzzle – Ryan Amos | Cena – DídacMargaix | Buena cosecha - Sergio Credits