New Demands - Old Skills. A strategy for bridging the competence gap: building competencies in a daily working context

Abstract

The paper is a presentation of the national programme on competence development - an extraordinary effort undertaken in the wake of the new Danish Act on library services in 2001-2002. The programme involved a major push to integrate learning activities in the daily work in the organization, to strengthen networking and project work on several levels and the nourishing of new leadership in the public libraries.