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LIANZA Professional Registration - Supporting Revalidation

9 December 2009

Using LIANZA Conferences and seminars to support your revalidation activities

The annual LIANZA Conference and other LIANZA activities such as seminars and weekend schools can provide an excellent opportunity to engage in a range of professional development activities which you can record in your journal and use towards revalidation of your professional registration.

Attendance at conference or a weekend school is not just one revalidation activity, it can be several. Conference activities cover all areas of the Body of Knowledge, as well as the different domains of professional practice, particularly Currency of knowledge (attending conference presentations) and Communication and networking, (knowledge sharing). Conferences and seminars provide a great opportunity to think about the future of the profession and the challenges out there, while learning about new initiatives and best practice examples, and building new networks.

So keep your professional registration requirements in mind when making the case to attend the LIANZA Conference and other seminars, and again once you get there.

Here are some suggestions for how LIANZA Conferences and seminars can help you meet your revalidation requirements:

• Identify the papers that are most meaningful to you, and record what it is about that paper that interested you. What did you learn from it, and how have you applied this?
• Were there networking opportunities that were particularly useful and which you have followed up?
• Are there opportunities to visit other libraries or information centres while at conference? Record any visits that were of particular value.
• Are you presenting a paper - remember to record this.
• Were you on the organising committee? - What did you learn from this that you can apply to your work? Maybe this counts under the domain of professional leadership.

Use the following form while at Conference to record possible revalidation activities, then complete it and add the detail to your Journal once you get home and have had a chance to reflect on the Body of Knowledge area and the learning outcomes.

Feel free to redesign this form to suit your own preferred way of working. It is here as an example you might use.