{"id":743,"date":"2009-01-06T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2009\/01\/06\/ict-for-librarians-qualifications\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T16:28:00","slug":"ict-for-librarians-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/ict-for-librarians-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"ICT for Librarians qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We have offered two specialist awards for library staff since 2004 &#8211; both PDAs, one at SCQF Levels 7 and one at Level 8. Last year we revised the Level 7 award and we are currently revising the Level 8 qualification.<\/p>\n<p>I met with the development team this morning to discuss progress. <b>Ted Hastings <\/b>is the lead developer and he is currently finalising the Level 8 award for planned validation in April. I&#8217;m hoping that this qualification will be on the books by August.<\/p>\n<p>Although the actual uptake for these qualifications is small, their potential (given the number of librarians in the UK and Ireland) is good, and I&#8217;m hopeful that they will become popular in time. The Level 8 award is particularly interesting, featuring two new units: one on reflective practice and one on digital culture.<\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:%20Jacqueline.Campbell@sqa.org.uk\">Jacque <\/a>if you want to know more about these awards.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have offered two specialist awards for library staff since 2004 &#8211; both PDAs, one at SCQF Levels 7 and one at Level 8. Last year we revised the Level 7 award and we are currently revising the Level 8 qualification. I met with the development team this morning to discuss progress. Ted Hastings is the lead developer and he is currently finalising the Level 8 award for planned validation in April. I&#8217;m hoping that this qualification will be on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}