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  • October 2025 Skilltype Content Update

    October 2025 Skilltype Content Update

    October brought another wave of meaningful updates to the Skilltype platform as we continue to grow our content and ensure it’s accurately tagged, up to date, and aligned with the evolving needs of library professionals. Here’s what changed over the past month: Catalog Activity New Tags Added Skills Products Conference & Series MaterialsWe added new…

    Kelly Terry

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  • Monash University becomes latest in Australia to go live on Skilltype 

    Monash University becomes latest in Australia to go live on Skilltype 

    Monash University Library, one of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight universities, is now LIVE on the Skilltype platform.

    Tony Zanders

  • What’s New in Skilltype: September 2023

    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.

    Johnny Boursiquot

  • Skilltype Database Surpasses 11,000 Trainings, Including Library Juice Academy

    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.

    Johnny Boursiquot

  • Long Life Learning for Libraries 

    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.

    Johnny Boursiquot

  • Strengthening Librarianship: Community, Networks, and Pods

    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 the field of librarianship.

    Johnny Boursiquot

  • What’s New in Skilltype: August 2023

    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 with clickable icons.

    Johnny Boursiquot

  • Playing an Active Role in Upskilling and Reskilling

    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.

    Johnny Boursiquot

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