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Dunn & Wilson scholarship project 1995

Table 1

themesubtheme
Experience of getting into the position
  • Career path
  • Work experience
  • Mentors and role models
  • Library Technician qualification
  • Personal qualities
  • Pre-appointment events
Experience of being in the position
  • Reactions to appointment
  • Position development
  • Personal qualities
  • Work relations
  • Values and beliefs
  • Management aspects
  • Staff development
  • Service development
  • Pressures
  • Wider contribution
  • Support
  • Constraints
  • Job satisfaction
Continuing Professional Development
  • Reading
  • Current awareness
  • Networking
  • E-mail Lists
  • Seminars
  • Mentorship
Where to from here?
  • Further study
  • Aspirations and career moves
  • For the position
Implications of being in the position for library technicians
  • Pessimism
  • Trail blazing
  • Informing others
Implications of being in the position for the library
  • Competing with librarians
  • Role model
  • Best person for the job
Implications for library and information services
  • Benchmark
  • Potential of library technicians
  • Individual performance outcomes rather than qualifications
  • Management input in basic education
  • Common course offering different exit levels

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