Education and Training Section
Annual Report
2007
Scope Statement
The Section focuses on education and training for library and
information science professionals based on research and professional
practice. It serves library and information science educators,
practitioners, and managers with training responsibilities.
Appropriately educated, adequately trained, continually learning
professionals are a requirement for effective and efficient information
services. Education and training for library and information services
concerns all IFLA's Divisions and requires cooperation with them and
other international and inter-regional associations which have a
related mission. Of special interest to the Section is the state of
library and information science education and training in developing
countries.
Members
The members were 201 (they were 206 in 2006). The Standing Committee
had 22 members (and four corresponding).
They were:
- Ismail Abdullahi (North Carolina Central University, United
States)
- Mouna Benslimane (Ecole des Sciences de l'Information, Rabat
Morocco)
- Barbara I. Dewey (University of Tennessee Libraries, United
States)
- Jacqueline Dussolin-Faure (IUFM de la Réunion, Saint Denis
France)
- John Feather (Loughborough University, Dept. of Information
Science United Kingdom)
- S.B. Ghosh (Indira Gandhi National Open University New Delhi
India)
- Gillian Hallam (Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
Australia)
- Petra Hauke (Institute for Library Science at Humboldt University
Berlin, Germany)
- Tatiana Kouznetsova (Academy of Postgraduate Education in Culture
and Art Moscow, Russian Federation)
- Aira Lepik (Department of Information Studies Tallinn University
Estonia)
- Marielle de Miribel (Université Paris X, France)
- Dianne Oberg (University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada)
- Niels Ole Pors (Royal School of Library and Information Science
Copenhagen Denmark)
- Patricia G. Oyler (Simmons College Graduate School of Library and
Information Science Boston United States)
- Richard Papík (Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Kornelija Petr ( Faculty of Philosophy, Unversity of Osijek
Croatia)
- Ms Josiane Roelants-Abraham (Free University of Brussels,
Belgium)
- Kerry Smith (Curtin University of Technology, Perth,
Australia)
- Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma, Italy)
- Shunsaku Tamura (School of Library and Information Science, Keio
University, Tokyo, Japan)
- Cristóbal Urbano Salido (Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de
Biblioteconomia i Documentacio Spain)
- Terry L. Weech (University of Illinois, Grad. School of Lib.
& Info. Science United States)
Corresponding members:
- Alexander Dimchev (University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski",
Bulgaria)
- C.R. Karisiddappa (President, Indian Association of Teachers of
Library and Information Science (IATLIS) (2005-2008), DHARWAD
India)
- Chihfeng Lin (Department/Graduate Program of Information and
Communications Shih-Hsin University Taipei, Taiwan)
- Aleksandra Vranes (Department for librarianship and informatics -
Library Knez, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)
Members leaving the Committee in 2007:
- Ms Josiane Roelants-Abraham (Free University of Brussels,
Belgium)
- Terry L. Weech (University of Illinois, Grad. School of Lib.
& Info. Science United States)
New members joining the Committee in 2007:
- Gillian Hallam (Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
Australia)
- Dianne Oberg (University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada)
- Patricia G. Oyler (Simmons College Graduate School of Library and
Information Science Boston United States)
- Richard Papík (Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Kerry Smith (Curtin University of Technology, Perth,
Australia)
Officers
Chair
Anna Maria Tammaro
Department of Cultural Heritage–Section Library Science
University of Parma, Italy
Secretary/Treasurer/Editor of Newsletter:
Petra Hauke
Institute for Library Science at Humboldt University, Berlin
Hochkalterweg 3a
D-12107 BERLIN
Germany
Information Coordinator:
Gillian Hallam
Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
GPO Box 2434, 4001 BRISBANE
Australia
Outgoing Officers
Chair:
Terry L. Weech
Outgoing Chair / Treasurer of IFLA SET Section (sc-member)
Associate Professor
University of Illinois, Grad. School of Lib. & Info. Science
501 East Daniel Street
CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820
United States
Secretary:
Niels Ole Pors
Standing Committee Member of IFLA SET Section
Associate Professor
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Birketinget 6
DK-2300 COPENHAGEN S
Denmark
Goals
- Foster international cooperation on basic and continuing
education of library and information science (LIS) educators and
practitioners.
- Uphold and strengthen the academic and professional status of LIS
- staff through international recognised qualifications for LIS -
positions.
- Maintain a current directory of world-wide LIS educational
programmes, including continuing education.
- Foster the multicultural principles of IFLA
- Disseminate information on innovative curriculum development and
creative teaching methodologies and materials
- Establish new professional guidelines to encourage the
incorporation of new knowledge, skills and competencies in
traditional and open and distance LIS education programs
- Foster a process that encompasses both standard educational
requirements and continuing education as focus for the work of the
section
Meetings
The Section Education and Training had two meetings in Durban, on
August 18, 2007, 14:30 –17:20 and August 24, 2007, 11:00 –
13:50.
During the first meeting, Anna Maria Tammaro was elected the new
chair and Petra Hauke elected for Secretary. During the second meeting
Gillian Hallam was elected for Information Officer.
Further information: www.ifla.org/VII/s23/annual/set-minutes07.pdf
Projects
Education in Digital Librarianship by Terry Weech:
"Feasibility of International Guidelines for Equivalency and
Reciprocity of Qualifications for LIS Professionals" by Terry L.
Weech and Anna Maria Tammaro
Programs
Division VIII with Education and Training (1)
"Advancing LIS education in Developing Countries: views from LIS
educators and practitioners"
Education and Training - Off-site
Location: University of Kwazulu-Natal Library
"Collaboration among LIS schools in Africa"
Division of Education and Research
"The internet, libraries and the changing information behaviour:
perspectives for research and education"
LIS Education in Developing Countries
"Quality assurance and LIS education in developing
countries"
Publications
Newsletter: Two issues of the Section Newsletter were published in
paper and electronic form last year.
The electronic version is posted on
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/index.htm
"World Guide to Library, Archive, and Information Science
Education"
3rd revised edition. Berlin, New York: Saur, 2007
This report written by: Terry Weech and Anna Maria
Tammaro
