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Future Ready 365. One path toward the Revalidation of Professional Registration (RPR) Posted by: Mike Metcalfe | Posted on: 05 Aug 10 One path toward the Revalidation of Professional Registration (RPR) M Gallagher Caldwell 9 February 2010 Introduction Hello fellow procrastinators! For those of you already chomping through your RPR, this article is not really aimed at you. But if you have been attending SIG meetings, reading articles or running projects at work and have NOT documented these experiences yet, then this is your push forward toward a successful RPR. Yes, for some of us, it has been more than a year since becoming a brand new Registered Professional Librarian.

I spoke to some other librarians, and WOW; they haven’t REALLY started this exercise yet either. OK so why is it that we haven’t started? I’ve formulated a simple plan, with steps. Preparation & Step-by-Step Procedure 1) Go to the LIANZA Website: www.lianza.org.nz/resources/professional-registration, and print out any of the listed links that will help you get started. My Journal: It’s a diary. The 'M' Word - Marketing Libraries. The library and information sector core knowledge, skills and attitude.

Reference scenarios. A reference scenario is an imagined situation where a library patron brings a question to a librarian and there is then a conversation, called in the field a reference interview, where the librarian works to help the patron find what he or she wants. These scenarios are used in training future librarians how to help patrons. Basically, a scenario is as short as a couple of sentences, including a question and a situation that underlies that question. A great deal of reference teaching puts students to researching the answers to made-up questions. This focuses the student on learning about the reference sources at hand by using them to answer those questions. Scenarios are something different.

Scenarios are valued because often the question asked is not the end of the patron's information hunt, but the start. See also[edit] Further reading[edit] Ross, Catherine, Kirsti Nilsen, and Patricia Dewdney.