The ability to evaluate information, to identify that which most closely meets the needs of the user and present it in a form that facilitates its use
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities Decisiveness, initiative, creativity |
Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness Organisational understanding |
Practical elements Professional expertise |
An awareness of different ways of providing access to materials via such activities as resource-sharing, shared acquisition programmes, document delivery and Web access, and the ability to evaluate and make balanced decisions from the range of alternatives available
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities Decisiveness, initiative, creativity |
Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
Understand both the measures that are necessary to preserve information and materials and how to implement those measures to ensure the future availability of resources
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities Decisiveness |
Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
An awareness, where appropriate, of the particular demands of proprietary information, and the responsibility for its creation, authentication and security
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies |
| Personal capabilities | Technical ability Technical application, technical knowledge |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
Have a grounding in research methods to provide the ability both to undertake independent projects and to evaluate the work carried out by others
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies Planning and organising |
| Personal capabilities Leadership, lifelong learning and development, achievement orientation, initiative |
Technical ability Technical application |
| Business awareness | Practical elements Professional expertise |
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the principles of Information and Communications Technologies and their application within an appropriate professional context. Effective interaction with technologies applicable to a wide range of professional tasks, and the ability to evaluate systems, and to explain to technical experts requirements in relation to perceived needs
| Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail |
Generic competencies Planning and organising |
| Personal capabilities Questioning, listening |
Technical ability Technical knowledge, technical application |
| Business awareness Process operation |
Practical elements Professional expertise |
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