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Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs 2016 Edition Compendium of 2015-2016 Mapping the Landscapes Project Findings and Data Publication Notes Title: Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs 2016 Edition Editor-in-Chief: Christina Drummond Co-Editors: Katherine Skinner, Nayeli Pelayo, Courtney Vukasinovic, Amanda Focke, Eric Pourchot, Laurie Sather, Laurie Gemmill Arp, Phaedra Livingstone, Kendra Morgan, Barbara Rothermel, Lisa Sjoberg Contributing Authors: Nathan Brown, Tom Clareson, Laurie Gemmil Arp, Jessica Aurelia Carr Publisher: Educopia Institute, 1230 Peachtree Street, Suite 1900, Atlanta, GA 30309 This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [RE-00-15-0104] Copyright: 2016 This publication is covered by the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International You are free to copy, distribute, and display this work under the following conditions: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. 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Self-Identified Library, Archives and Museum Professional Development Needs 2016 Edition. Atlanta, Georgia: Educopia Institute. Cover image credits, clockwise from top left: Janko Ferlic, https://unsplash.com/photos/sfL_QOnmy00, Tate Modern Museum, Samuel Zeller, https://unsplash.com/photos/_es6l-aPDA0, Samuel Zeller, https://unsplash.com/photos/y0Fa1DEKOKs, Anthony Delanoix, Galeries d'Anatomie comparée et de Paléontologie, Paris, France https://unsplash.com/photos/ae1zKHoreQ8 1 Executive Summary.......................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................2 Project Background ....................................................................................................................4 Finding Highlights .......................................................................................................................6 Future Professional Development Research .............................................................................. 17 2 Data Reports and Analysis ............................................................................................. 19 Summary Survey Report ........................................................................................................... 20 Summary Focus Group Report .................................................................................................. 90 Individual Focus Group Session Reports .................................................................................. 108 3 Data Collection Guides and Instruments ...................................................................... 149 Focus Group Moderator’s Setup Guide .................................................................................... 150 Focus Group Moderator’s Discussion Guide Master Version .................................................... 153 Survey Procedures Guide ........................................................................................................ 155 Survey Instrument .................................................................................................................. 166 Survey Interpretation Guide ................................................................................................... 206 4 Raw Data and Visualizations ........................................................................................ 217 Focus Group Raw Notes Collection .......................................................................................... 218 Survey Data Visualizations ...................................................................................................... 260 Tableau dashboard user guide ................................................................................................ 291 Executive Summary Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs 2 Executive Summary Author: Christina Drummond, Educopia Institute Co-Editors: Katherine Skinner, Nayeli Pelayo, Courtney Vukasinovic Release: 19 December 2016 Introduction Triangulating the need for, supply of, and demand of continuing education and professional development offerings is a challenging feat. Yet, the professional associations, higher and continuing education programs, and others serving libraries, archives, and museums can better plan, develop, and schedule offerings when equipped with such information. While a range of education providers collect such data for their own alumni and memberships, field-spanning data collection and comparison is rare, severely limiting the visibility of partnership opportunities. Given the diversity of roles both within and across the library, museum, and archives professions, one might question the value of data comparison across the fields. Learning offerings vary greatly by cost and range (e.g., from multi-modal programs to one-hour webinars, and pre-conference workshops to fellowships). The variety of organizations within fields has resulted in strong subfield cultures and associations, supporting vastly different operations (such as zoos and historical societies, state archives and private collections, and research and public libraries). While these diverse subfields see demand for offerings tied to specific work environments and staff roles, such targeted, job-responsibility focused offerings are not the full set of professional development that is needed or available. Effective, efficient organizations meet their missions through individuals who wield robust skill-sets around organizational and project management, leadership, community engagement, collaboration, cross-cultural communication and so on. These skills, required by most effective organizations and businesses, highlight competency areas where training providers have fertile ground for collaboration across fields. The Mapping the Landscapes project team, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and facilitated by the Educopia Institute, aimed to explore this landscape of shared professional development needs. Between March 2015 and August 2016, three core activities took place. 1) Using interviews and a literature review, Educopia and LYRASIS staff, guided by a Field Assessment Task Force, examined the process of assessing professional development needs across multiple adult education sectors, to inform the needs assessment activities within this project.1 2) Through interviews and focus groups, Educopia staff, guided by the Field Assessment Task Force, documented the challenges and opportunities related to collaborating at scale across the diverse Introduction | array of libraries, archives, and museums (LAM) fields.2 1 LAM Education Needs Assessments: Bridging the Gaps. November 2015. Educopia Institute Press. https://educopia.org/publications/lam-education-needs-assessments-bridging-gaps 2 Spanning Our Field Boundaries: Mindfully Managing LAM Collaborations . October 2015. Educopia Institute Press. https://educopia.org/sites/educopia.org/files/publications/Spanning_Our_Field_Boundaries.pdf Executive Summary Self-Identified Library, Archives, and Museum Professional Development Needs 3 3) Building upon the needs assessment and cross-sector collaboration findings, Survey and Focus Group Task Forces, nominated by the project’s Advisory Board, worked with TrueBearing Consulting and LYRASIS to gather nationwide, field-spanning data from LAM staff. Individual learners across diverse types of libraries, archives, and museums were asked about their own professional development providers, challenges, opportunities, and needs. Focus groups were conducted by LYRASIS at national association conferences (Archives*Records 2015, American Library Association (ALA)-Midwinter, American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)/Michigan Museums Association (MMA) Annual Meeting, and the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting) plus two virtual sessions, reaching 61 participants in total. Simultaneously, TrueBearing Consulting developed, administered, and visualized a national web- based survey, collecting data from 2,788 individuals. This cumulative project report presents focus group and survey results, highlights select findings, and presents guidance and instrumentation for future data gathering with minimized overhead. The document begins with an executive summary authored by the project’s program manager.