Master List of Competencies for Information Professionals

The website Librarianship.ca has compiled a list of Competencies for Information Professionals developed by associations and other professional bodies.

The list breaks down into the following categories:

• General
• Academic Librarianship
• Archives
• Art Librarianship 
• Assessment
• Children and Youth Librarianship
• Collections Management
• Data Management
• Government Librarianship
• Health and Medical Librarianship
• Information / Document / Records Management
• Law Librarianship
• Library Technicians
• Map Librarianship
• Metadata and Cataloguing
• Music Librarianship
• Reference and Information Services
• Scholarly Communications
• School Librarianship

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries in recent years has prepared two documents on so-called Professional Development Pathways:

• Implementing CALL/ACBD Professional Development Pathways: "The Canadian Association of Law Libraries, through the Professional Development Committee, will make best efforts to provide a broad array of professional development opportunities that are designed to build members’ knowledge and skill in the following areas:
  
  • Collection Development, Cataloguing, Metadata and Information Organization
  • Information Technology 
  • Instruction 
  • Knowledge Management 
  • Leadership, Management and Professionalism 
  • Reference and Research Services 
  • Substantive Law"
• CALL/ACBD Professional Development Pathways (list of competencies)