31 members have been granted provisional approval for the award of Practising Professional (PP) after their professional development records were examined and approved by the Professional Development Scheme (PDS) Board and endorsed by LAS Council.

The application forms submitted by successful candidates are available for scrutiny at http://sites.google.com/site/laspds0901pplist/provisional-pps-jan-2009.

 

Please note that reading logs and lists indicated by applicants are not displayed but have been certified in the examination process. If there are no objections on the validity of the records from LAS members within one month (i.e. until 9th December 2011), the award will be confirmed and the names of the PPs will be listed in the LAS Website for the validity period, July 2011 to June 2013.

 

The success rate for this round is 94% out of 34 applications. 23 (68%) of the applications came from NUS, 4 (12%) from NTU, 2 (6%) from NLB, and 1(3%) each from SMU, Singapore Poly, and Temasek Poly.

24 members have been granted provisional approval for the award of Practising Professional (PP) after their professional development records were examined and approved by the Professional Development Scheme (PDS) Board and endorsed by LAS Council. The application forms submitted by successful candidates are available for scrutiny at http://sites.google.com/site/laspds0901pplist/provisional-pps-jan-2009.   Please note that reading logs and lists indicated by applicants are not displayed but have been certified in the examination process. If there are no objections on the validity of the records from LAS members within one month (i.e. until 14 May 2011), the award will be confirmed and the names of the PPs will be listed in the LAS Website for the validity period, Jan 2011 to Dec 2012.   The success rate for this round is 100% out of 24 applications. 11 (46%) of the applications came from NTU, 7 (29%) from NUS, 3 (13%) from Temasek Poly, 2 (8%) from NLB and 1 (4%) from Singapore Poly.

Two years have passed since the first batch of members was awarded Practicing Professional (PP) status in Jan 2009. Application is open now for members (PP expiring in Dec 2010) to renew their status as well as for new applicants who wish to qualify for PP. The qualifying period for this application is Jan 2009 to Dec 2010. The new expiration date for successful applicants will be Dec 2012.

Please fill in the PARF form provided and submit to PDS Working Committee on or before 10 Jan 2011. Instruction on filling in the form is given in the “General Instruction” tab at the bottom of the form. For more information about PDS, please visit the website, http://sites.google.com/site/laspds09/Home

Achieving PP status is a firm commitment to your supervisor, parent body, users/clients and fellow professionals to continuously upgrade yourself in professional practice. Like other professions in medical, legal and IT industry, continuing professional development is an important aspect of our practice in a rapidly changing information environment.  The PDS system, developed and maintained by LAS is a clear demonstration of our collective desire to remain relevant and up-do-date in our daily work.

 

1 member has been granted provisional approval for the award of Practising Professional (PP) after his professional development record was examined and approved by the Professional Development Scheme (PDS) Board and endorsed by LAS Council. The application form submitted by the successful candidate is available for scrutiny at http://sites.google.com/site/laspds0901pplist/provisional-pps-jan-2009.   Please note that reading logs and lists indicated by applicants are not displayed but have been certified in the examination process. If there are no objections on the validity of the records from LAS members within one month (i.e. until 6 January 2011), the award will be confirmed and the name of the PP will be listed in the LAS Website for the validity period, Jul 2010 to Jun 2012.

LAS members are invited to submit their PDS application for the award of Practicing Professional (PP) (valid 1 Jul 2010 to 30 Jun 2012). You may submit your application for this round if you have accumulated the required 1,000 PDS points during the last 2 years from 1 Jul 2008 to 30 Jun 2010

To submit,

1.       Please fill in the PDS Activities Record Form - available in

 http://sites.google.com/site/laspds09/download>

Note: This is the latest updated format, please do not use previous forms.

2.       Please make sure that you have fulfilled all the requirements to be qualified. The form will indicate whether you have achieved the required status. There have been some minor amendments to PDS points and acceptable activities. Changes are reflected in the revised guidelines.

3.       Email the completed form to the Secretary, PDS Board <laspds09@gmail.com> on or before 23 Jul 2010

4.       The Working Committee will scrutinize the form and inform you if the submitted form is in order. Please follow the instructions and guidelines when filling in the form to minimize delays in reviewing your application. After this, you will be instructed to submit the printed copy with the necessary declaration.

 

15 members have been granted provisional approval for the award of Practising Professional (PP) after their professional development records were examined and approved by the Professional Development Scheme (PDS) Board and endorsed by LAS Council. The application forms submitted by successful candidates are available for scrutiny at http://sites.google.com/site/laspds0901pplist/provisional-pps-jan-2009.   Please note that reading logs and lists indicated by applicants are not displayed but have been certified in the examination process. If there are no objections on the validity of the records from LAS members within one month (i.e. until 4 May 2010), the award will be confirmed and the names of the PPs will be listed in the LAS Website for the validity period, Jan 2010 to Dec 2011.   The success rate for this round is 100% out of 15 applications. 47% of the applications came from NUS, 20% each from NTU and Temasek Poly, and 13% from NLB.

From 2010 onwards, there will only be 2 submission award periods – in July and January of each year. This is due in part to the success of the scheme where a high number of eligible members have already attained the PP status in the past year. Members who are now PP will need to re-apply to maintain their status when their validity period expires.

 

To synchronize with the new award period, they can include activities that they have already used before in the period that overlaps with the new 2-year period. For example, let say that your PP expires in March 2011. This means that you qualified based on activities engaged in the period Apr 2008 to Mar 2009 during the inaugural implementation. To renew your status after Mar 2009, you will need to apply for renewal in Jan 2011 instead of Mar. Your renewal will be based on activities accumulated in the period Jan 2009 to Dec 2010. This means that you can “reuse” activities from Jan to Mar 2009 which you have used in your first qualification period. The diagram below illustrate this scenario.

 

 

 

 

OTHER CHANGES

 

The PDS Board also approved the following changes:

1.       Attendance at managerial and leadership development courses, workshops or conference regardless of whether they are tailored specifically for librarians is now included as valid activities for ET1-ET9.

2.       Points for participation as committee chair or council member of LAS have been adjusted from 146 to 156 to reflect the difference in scope and responsibility of work as office holder of Council (176 points) and committee members (125).

3.       The following clarifications were made:

a)       Points awarded for serving in a committee is for one year period. For services rendered in 2 years, the points awarded will be doubled. In order to qualify for points for participation as committee member, committee chair or council member, an applicant is required to have attended a minimum of 4 meetings per year during the qualifying period

b)       For ID-3, “attendance at library related exhibitions”, applicant will not be eligible if the exhibition is organized by the applicant as part of his/her work, or if it is about the applicant’s organization.

4.       The following new categories of points have been approved:

EA-15 [Authorship]   Conduct in-house sharing session (at least 45 min) on LIS conference & related areas (50 points)

5.       Poster presentations will be adjusted to include number of authors. This is intended to more accurately reflect and award effort and to avoid situations where large groups tag onto a poster presentation to obtain points.

The adjusted categories are:

    EA7         Prepare and/or present poster at conference (1 to 2 authors) – 60 points

    EA7a       Prepare and/or present poster at conference (3 to 4 authors) – 46 points

    EA8 &9    Publication of scholarly articles are not restricted to LIS related refereed

        journals. Scholarly articles published in refereed non-LIS related journals   

        are also eligible for consideration under these 2 categories.

These changes are incorporated in the revised guidelines.