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Maybe to use in addition to the <a href="https://www.webjunction.org/content/dam/WebJunction/Documents/webJunction/2015-03/Competency%20Index%20for%20the%20Library%20Field%20(2014).pdf">Library Competency Index</a> shared earlier, to benchmark yourself, your institution, and for strategic development and direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Content:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-2">Data policies and data management plans</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-3">Professional development for librarians providing RDS</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-4">Digital scholarship</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-5">Collection assessment trends</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-6">ILS and content provider/fulfillment mergers</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-7">Evidence of learning: Student success, learning analytics, credentialing</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-8">New directions with the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-10">Critical information literacy in the Framework</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><a href="http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/6/274.full#sec-11">Altmetrics</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li 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style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#338CAF;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 style='width:.1666in;height:.1666in' id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.gif@01D1E36D.B586DD30" alt="http://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16(1).gif"></span></a><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-3668 </a></span><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA'>LIASA Exco Convener ICT Development (2014-2016)<br>LIASA HELIG Chair (2014-2016)</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p 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