Minutes of the Coordinating Board
Boston, Friday 24th August 2001

Division VII- Education and Research

Participating:

Lis Byberg (outgoing chair); Kerry Smith (new Chair; outgoing secty); Marian Koren (new Secretary);

Gary Gorman (chair); Ludmila Kozlova (secretary);

Don Davis(chair);

Jesus Lau (chair); Martha Castro (secty); Ingrid Kjellquist.

Susan Lazinger (incoming chair); Terry Weech (incoming secretary);

Linda Ashcroft (outgoing chair);

John Cole (outgoing chair); Gwynneth Evans (incoming chair); Catharina Stenberg (new chair); Adele Fasick (outgoing secty);

Observer:

John Harvey, Ana Lilian Moya Gijahru, Ntlamelang Baratedi.

Visitor:

Ian Johnson, CB VII liaison Glasgow conference

Apologies:

Anne Ritchie, incoming chair, CPERT; Alistair Black, RT Library History

The meeting revisited this item at the request of newly elected CB VII Chair and Financial Officer, Susan Lazinger, who stated that after much serious thought, she would be unable to take on these positions. She had spoken to Terry Weech, the incoming Secretary/Treasurer of SET, and in the event of there being no other offers to take on the positions, he would be prepared to do so, provided that Marian Koren was still able to attend the Professional Committee (PC) (the new PB) meetings in The Hague. Terry Weech outlined his experience: this was his third year of involvement in IFLA, he'd been active on ALA committees; is an active member of the Graduate School of LIS at Illinois. Terry Weech was subsequently elected to Chair of CB VII and would commence his duties after this meeting. He was thanked for his offer.

The current CB VII Chair, Lis Byberg requested that these be sent to her with this year's financial forms which are due 1 October 2001. Strategic Planing should follow the IFLA strategic priorities - K. Smith tabled copies.

Most CB members outlined the general thrust of their planning:

LTR: role of libraries in society & development of the library professional;

Reading: literacy;

RTUE: tabled a draft of their Exec Ctee minutes of their meeting of 18th August 2001 which included their draft strategic plan

SET: has established a committee of 4 to progress their thinking along the lines of the development of the library professional, development of standards and best practice;

CPERT: continuing development rather than continuing education.

Reading reported that the IFLA Executive Ctee had already approved their existence as a Section;

CPERT: will try and become a section with a name change to Continuing Professional Development;

RTLH: will pursue section status.

It was agreed that with the potential for many sections, it gave many options to IFLA members and this tended to be confusing. It might be that mergers will be indicated if all/most of the sectional proposals are approved by PC. It was also noted that members of CB VII could be stealing members from each other.

CB was able to approve small projects up to 3000 NLG and Lis Byberg reported that CB VII has 4200 NLG available to allocate to projects. Larger projects had to be sent to PB for approval and it was noted that there could be:

SET - 1 proposal;

LTR - possibly 2;

RTUE - 1.

Reading wished to undertake an international scoping survey of reader-centred service provision in public libraries. The survey would be from up to 20 member libraries and 1500 NLG was needed for survey costs. APPROVED.

RTLH were proposing a small publication for IFLA's 75th anniversary coincident with the Glasgow conference. Costs of 500 NLG would be for publication ready for conference satchels. APPROVED.

SET: still interested in redefining their proposal to update the world guide to LIS education. It was proposed to the governing board last year and rejected. New proposal to have John Harvey and Evelyn Daniel as Editors in Chief. Section has found promises of assistance in kind. New proposal is for USD26,000.00 (reduced from USD50,000) over 2 years: some of the funding will come from left over funds of the Section, would like USD10,000 from IFLA and expect to gather the remainder from other sources, including an approach to UNESCO. Section will work with Saur to produce printed version and members of section will contribute without financial remuneration. Expected date of publication: December 2003.

LTR: had two proposals, though had prioritised these if necessary. 1. A transnational evaluative survey of national policy makers attitudes to, and perceptions of, the role, value and impact of public library services;

2. Methods for studying the social side of libraries in society.

Because of the pressure on IFLA to fund projects from CB VII this time, LTR decided to put forward their first option. The funding required was expected to be in the range of 4-5000 NLG as much of the work would be undertaken by Section members, in-kind.

RTUE: Tabled their proposal: International user education guidelines. RT unsure of the mount of money and would construct the project as the money dictated. They would work with IFLA HQ to investigate possible funding through UNESCO. CB VII felt that to get the project started, some small funding assistance could be made and that this project could be considered "small". 2,200 NLG APPROVED.

RT LIS Journals - no report.

It was therefore decided that the projects from SET (12-13000NLG) and LTR (4000NLG) would be proposed at the December 2001 PC meeting. Both Sections need to get their paperwork to Marian Koren in time for this meeting. LTR was encouraged to work further on their second project and submit the proposal next year.

SET: Open Session: Judith Elkin to chair. Think local, act global: enhancing competencies for a diverse world.

Workshop: to be held at Dept Information Science, Univ Strathclyde, Glasgow - "Driving change in the profession". Will have local presenters and a geographic panel - plan a half day session with lunch.

RTLH: Open session: 2 "old IFLA hands": Harry Campbell & Russell Bowden - will produce papers in earlier mentioned publication, plus panel discussion by IFLA luminaries.

Workshop: half day Monday afternoon at the Royal College of Surgeons with lunch and reception - to attract members to the new section.

Will have early visit on Thursday to community libraries.

CPERT: Open session: international collaboration for professional development - still to be developed, plus

Pre-conference satellite meeting organised by Ian Johnson. 20 of the 40 papers offered have been selected and will be published in advance of the meeting.

RTUE: Open session: what make librarians effective educators - offsite.

Reading: Open session: National book policies.

Workshop: promotion of reading - possibly offsite in a public library.

LTR: are planning one session on the Monday - to workshop/panel the proposed research project . Possible title(s): Library research in 3D; OR Getting a GRIPP.

Ian Johnson, liaison for CB VII for the Glasgow conference commented that there were LIS schools in Glasgow, Edinburgh as possible off site venues. Simultaneous interpretation would only be available onsite by the IFLA team - own arrangements for any offsite interpretations. Can contact Ian for list of eating venues.

SET: Terry Weech to chair session on education and training of school library media specialists. Pre conference with Library Management on E learning - possibly in Geneva or Lyon.

Ian Johnson mentioned that EUCLID (European Library Schools Group) and ALISE were planning a 2 day meeting in Potsdam on the Thursday and Friday prior to the Berlin conference to discuss issues of mutual interest, e.g. implications of global distance learning, development of joint research activity. This meeting was open to all.

CPERT: planning an offsite workshop - web based professional development.

RTUE : Information literacy as an educational goal.

Reading: Impact of the Internet on Reading.

LTR: still planning.

The 6th world conference of CPERT could be held in Argentina.

Lis Byberg announced that both of CB VII's resolutions had been referred to the new Professional Ctee. Marian Koren to follow them through.

At the close of the meeting at approx. 2 p.m., outgoing Chair Lis Byberg and Secretary Kerry Smith were thanked for their work on behalf of the CB.

K. Smith

Secretary