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Introduction

Skills for 21st-Century Librarians: Task Force for the Development of a NILPPA- Informed Programming Librarian Curriculum is an IMLS-funded grant initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office. Working with Knology, a social science research organization, we built on earlier work as part of the National Impact of Library Public Programs Assessment (NILPPA). 

In that earlier work, we identified nine competency areas for library workers who do public programming. In the current project we convened a task force of 12 leaders in libraries and library education to begin fleshing out these competency areas for both library degree programs and professional development training sessions.

The task force reached consensus about the following:

• There is a real need for a curriculum that covers all of these competency areas, and a great deal of excitement about creating it;
• The effort to develop the curriculum needs to be two-pronged: while ALA’s Public Programs Office can lead the development of professional development, we will need to work with ALA’s Accreditation Office and other stakeholders (such as instructors and current students) to successfully integrate this curriculum into degree programs;
• The original nine competency areas remain relevant and appropriate, updated to include both digital competencies and EDI considerations (following ALA’s social justice framework) in all nine areas. …

	Practical social science for a better world
	© 2021 by the American Library Association under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND). Citation: Norlander, R.J., & Barchas-Lichtenstein, J. (2021).  Skills for 21st-Century Librarians: Learning Objectives for Library Programming. Knology Publication #IML.074.707.02. Chicago: American Library Association.
Date of Publication	July 23, 2021	Knology Publication #	IML.074.707.02
	These materials were produced for Skills for 21st-Century Librarians: Task Force for the Development of a NILPPA-Informed Programming Librarian Curriculum grant number RE-246421-OLS-20. The authors are advisors  for the project and are solely responsible for the content in this report.