Author: Johnny Boursiquot
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BCALA Selects Skilltype for Member Engagement and Training
BCALA and Skilltype partner to boost skill development for 1,000+ members, enhancing library services for African-American librarians.
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Nonprofit Annual Reviews Becomes Strategic Partner
Annual Reviews invests in Skilltype, enhancing tools that facilitate diverse and impactful training for information professionals.
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What’s New in Skilltype: December 2023
Skilltype v1.38 introduces Advanced Search 2.0 with facet filtering, enabling precise skill and resource discovery.
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How Skilltype Handles Transactional Emails
Skilltype excels in managing transactional emails, essential for actions like password resets. Our system, using AWS Lambda and Amazon Pinpoint, ensures each email is unique and trackable. Pinpoint’s event stream allows us to monitor deliverability, maintaining high communication standards. This precision in our tech architecture is just a glimpse into how we operate at Skilltype.
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Skilltype and Technology from Sage Release Librarian Skills Landscape Report
Skilltype and Technology from Sage have released a new report that examines the librarian skills landscape and suggests development areas.
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What’s New in Skilltype: October 2023
Skilltype v1.36: Track training time, enhanced CEU reporting, admin updates, and upcoming advanced search features.
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What’s in a Name? Exploring the Word “Librarian” and What it Means
Exploring the nuanced definition of ‘librarian’, this piece delves into the shifting boundaries of the profession in the digital era, challenging traditional views.
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University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries Signs Multi-Year Agreement With Skilltype For Talent Management
Skilltype partners with Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries to enhance talent management and professional development, leveraging innovative, data-driven solutions to advance strategic goals and elevate the library experience for the academic community.
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What’s New in Skilltype: September 2023
Here’s what’s new in the latest release of Skilltype v1.34. We’re planning a series of improvements to make it easier for staff within the same organization to find one another for collaboration and we’ve updated our data and privacy policy.
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Skilltype Database Surpasses 11,000 Trainings, Including Library Juice Academy
In response to the evolving trends and interests exhibited by libraries and users on our platform, the Skilltype community now enjoys access to a repository of more than 11,000 items, including resources from our new partnership with Library Juice Academy.
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Long Life Learning for Libraries
Facilitating the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge that helps people to through lifelong learning is part of librarians’ career DNA. Lifelong learning is core to the mission of academic and public libraries of any shape or size. This makes libraries a natural home for long-life learning as well.
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Strengthening Librarianship: Community, Networks, and Pods
What does “creating community” mean? How can someone be an “expert” at creating community? I asked myself this question as I read the announcement that I had joined Skilltype, and wondered how else I could describe what I love doing, what I’m good at doing, and why I feel it is so important, especially in…
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What’s New in Skilltype: August 2023
Here’s what’s new in the latest release of Skilltype v1.33. You can now add your unique training and make it available to the entire Skilltype community. We renamed some of our training types to make it more straightforward to filter Skilltype training feeds. Lastly, we improved UX accessibility and mobile friendliness by replacing hover tooltips…
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Playing an Active Role in Upskilling and Reskilling
For libraries to undertake the comprehensive programs of upskilling and reskilling needed to adapt to this new reality, such as those described in “Reskilling in the Age of AI” in this month’s Harvard Business Review, leaders, managers, and employees must be fully involved.
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Implementing Data-Driven Organizational Development at Washington University in St. Louis
Associate University Librarian Jackie Lorrainne, representing Washington University Libraries, and Christine Quirion, COO of Skilltype, continued the discussion sparked by their presentation at the CNI Spring 2023 Membership Meeting.
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Using User Behavior Analytics Responsibly for Personalized Experiences
This blog aims to surface our approach and considerations for what we believe to be a responsible path for user behavior analytics on the Skilltype platform.