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JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Volume 50, Issue 4, Pages 435-467Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0961000616653648
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CPD; networks; new library professionals; professional development; social media; United Kingdom
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This research explores the connection between social media and independent continuing professional development, focusing on new professionals within the UK and Ireland who graduated between 2010 and 2015, based on Ruddock's definition (see Appendix 1). Two online surveys were conducted to ascertain why continuing professional development networks have been created and why new professionals use them. The first survey was completed by 100 new professionals; the second was completed by four continuing professional development network founders. This paper explores the relationship between the uptake of continuing professional development and social media usage by new professionals and highlights the reasons social media are used by new professionals for continuing professional development which include cost, variety of continuing professional development options, and removal of boundaries, e.g. geographical, hierarchical. The survey also found that network founders used social media to promote continuing professional development and engage with users.
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