Education and Training Section

Minutes

1st Standing Committee meeting during the IFLA Conference in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, August 2, 2003

• Introduction of New Members/Role of Members, Corresponding Members, Observers.

• Approval of Agenda. The Chair asked for additions to the Agenda The agenda was adopted
• Approval of Minutes. The Minutes for the meetings in Glasgow, 2002 were approved as distributed and posted on the IFLA Web.

• Chair. The Chair, reviewed the process of electing new officers of the section. Nominations for the position of Chair may be made only by current members elected to SET for 2003-2005. If there is only one nominee, he/she is confirmed unopposed. If there is more than one nominee, a secret ballot is held. Only standing committee members serving for the 2003-2005 term can vote. A quorum (one third of standing committee members) must be present. Ismail Abdullahi nominated Terry Weech for the position of Chair. The nomination was unopposed and approved by acclamation.. Terry agreed to continue as Financial Officer for the Section.
• Secretary Terry Weech nominated Niels Ole Pors for Secretary. The nomination was unopposed and approved by acclamation
• Appointed Positions.
  Newsletter Editor: It was recommended that John Harvey, who has been serving as editor of the SET Bulletin, be reappointed for the position, and this was approved. It was also recommended that John be thanks for his long years of service as the SET Bulletin editor. His good work has been much appreciated by the members.
  Information Officer: The decision was made to separate the function of the Newsletter Editor from that of Information Officer since the Chair Elect suggested that one of the duties of the information officer might be to continue the revision of the SET Brochure developed by Jennefer Nicholson . A call for volunteers to be considered for the Section's Information Officer was made. No volunteers came forward so the appointment was postponed until the August 8^th meeting of the Standing Committee.

• Chair. Susan Lazinger, the outgoing Chair, gave the President’s report. She stated that there are currently SET 237 members, making SET one of the larger sections in IFLA. Achievements of the past year included [see Chair's Report attached as an annex to these minutes]
• Secretary. Terry Weech Secretary, delivered the Secretary’s report. He described the selection process and gave the titles of the papers for the Open Forum and the Workshop.
• Treasurer. Terry Weech, Treasurer reported that on income and expenditures of the section. His report is attached as an annex to these minutes. The Treasurer asked for approval of the revision of the 2003 Budget and for approval of the draft 2004 Budget. Both were approved by the Standing Committee.
• Information Officer. Susan Lazinger, Chair, summarized John Harvey's report. This report is attached as an annex to these minutes.

• Joint Satellite Conference "E-learning for marketing and management in Libraries," Geneva, 28-30 July 2003 -- Francoise LeRouge, Program Co-Chair (SET representative). Francoise Lerouge indicated that the Satellite Conference was a success with the desired number of registrants. Expenses were covered by the registration fees thanks to the generosity of the hosting university in supplying the facilities without cost. Ms. LeRouge indicated she would present a written report on the Satellite Conference at a later date.
• Berlin, 2003 (Weech, Schubert, and Morizio) Terry Weech reported on the overall planning the Coordinated Sessions with Multimedia and AudioVisual Section Scheduled for Monday. He encourage all SET members to attend both programs.
• Hans-Jurgan Schubert handed out directions to the Workshop at Humbolt University to be held on Thursday. Hans reviewed the morning session on library education in German speaking countries and distributed the registration sheet for lunch and for the morning session. He indicated that we already had 40 registrations and the room holds no more than 50 people.
• Claude Morizio reviewed the plans for the afternoon session which is jointly being held with the School Library Media Section. She indicated that all the papers have been translated into official IFLA languages and posted on IFLANet.

• World Guide to Library and Information Studies Education (Rebecca Pernell, student working with Evelyn Daniel at University of North Carolina). Ms. Pernell presented the current status of the progress on the World Guide. She indicated she would be doing a more detailed presentation at the Thursday morning workshop at Humbolt University. There was much discussion by members of the Standing Committee about issues relating to the development of questions in the data gathering and in the selection of regional editors for the guide. It was decided to continue the discussion at the Friday, August 8^th meeting of the Standing committee.
• Revision of Guidelines for Teaching Management and Marketing (Abdullahi and Field) [cooperative project with Section on Management and Marketing] Ismail Abdullahi reported that this project was no longer being worked on. It will be dropped from future agendas.
• History of the Section [Harbo]. Ole Harbo reported that he is working on the history of the Section of Education and Training and hopes to have it completed by 2004 Conference.

 Minutes of August 2, 2003 submitted by Terry Weech, Outgoing Secretary.

2nd Standing Committee meeting during the IFLA Conference in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, August 8, 2003

Current Members Present: Ismail Abdullahi, Mouna Bensilmane, Assumpcio Estivill, Joyce Kirk, Susan Lazinger, Francoise Lerouge, Aira Lepik, Claude Morizio – outgoing member, Niels O Pors, Josiane Roelants-Abraham, Hans-Jurgen Schubert, Anna Maria Tammaro, Terry Weech

Current Members Absent: Jitka Banzetova, Jacqueline Dussolin-Faure, Judith Elkin, Maria Gajo, Rosemary Gitachu, Ken Haycock, Lars Hoglund, Anna Shirinyan, Natalia Zhadko

Observers Present: Mireille Lamouroux, Patricia Oyler, Jerome Kalfon, Baselle Diu, Ian M. Johnson, Rebecca Pernell

I. INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME TO THE AUGUST 8, 2003 MEETING

The new chairman Terry Weech called the meeting to order, welcoming members and observers. Members and observers introduced themselves. The list of new and outgoing SET members was distributed to initial and correct..

The agenda was approved.

Terry Weech announced that Anna Maria Tammaro has agreed to take up the position as Information Officer of the section.

There was a report from the two sessions arranged off-site by the section. Hans-Jurgen Schubert reported from the session Thursday morning concerning educational matters in German – speaking countries in Europe. 45 people turned up and there has been a very live discussion.

Claude Morizio gave an evaluation of the afternoon session. The session was jointly being held with the School Library Media Section. 55 people turned up to a very successful session.

There was a short discussion. Some members of the section pointed to the fact that the sessions did not have the form of a workshop. They ran more like traditional lectures.

• Buenos Aires 2004 (Estivill, Pors, Abdullahi). Isamil Abdullahi gave a report from the planning. The planning was in place and arrangements made. There was a short discussion about the number and length of slots available for the section. The planning group will be in contact and modify the program if needed.
• Oslo 2005 (Pors, Kirk, and Lepik). Niels Pors distributed a proposal for a workshop and a session. The proposals were made before it was known that the time for the section was limited. The planning group will be in contact and will probably approach other sections for a joint program.
• Seoul, Korea 2006. Mouna Bensilimane was appointed chair of the subcommittee responsible for the initial planning of the section’s activities.

1. The establishment of an advice group or reference group consisting of Susan Lazinger, Joyce Kirk, Ismail Abdullahi and Niels Pors. The group will follow the work and the group will seek to establish a net of regional editors.
2. We will in august 2003 write to all committee members and ask if the committee member wants to work as a regional editor. We will also ask about names for possible regional editors outside the SET – committee to get a good regional coverage.
3. The role of the regional editors could be to receive the input from institutions in the region and regional editors would then input the data in the database. The regional editors also have to make a kind of quality assurance of the format of the input.
4. The advice group will help with the testing of the questionnaire. It was mentioned during the meeting that it probably would be important to test the questionnaire in relation to 20 – 30 institutions in different regions. The testing should focus on problems of terminology and a general understanding of the implications of the terminology.

• Anna Maria Tammaro's project concerning accreditation and quality assurance.

• E – learning discussion group

4. Cooperation with Other Groups

1. Look at a revision of the guidelines for LIS – education
2. Incorporate the theme in future conferences (Workshops or Open sessions) planned by the section
3. Revise the strategic plan in accordance with the policy
4. Look at other forms of literacy, e.g. Indigenous literacy based on oral traditions and its relevance for the section
5. Incorporate aspects of the topic in the introduction to the World guide.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 a.m.

 Minutes of August 8, 2003 submitted by Niels Ole Pors, Incoming Secretary.

Annex 1 to SET Minutes: Letter from the Chair

This will be my last report. At the first SET meeting in Berlin I am stepping down as Chair and calling for elections of the Chair and Secretary/Treasurer. For a number of reasons, among them a new book contract and the need as Head of the Academic Program to concentrate on some problems within my home institution, I have decided not to run for a second term of Chair of SET. I have enjoyed both heading up the Section on Education and Training and writing these letters for the Set Bulletin. I will continue, of course, to work for SET as an elected member at least through the end of my term in 2005, and I hope and plan to remain in personal and professional contact with all the friends I have made through SET for many years more.

The program for Berlin is in place, thanks to our extremely capable Program Chair, Terry Weech, who is of course also our Secretary/Treasurer, and the other competent and devoted planning committee members, Claude Morizio and Hans-Jurgen Schubert. The coordinated Open Session with the Section on Audiovisual and Multimedia will be held on Monday,with the two sessions scheduled consecutively, as requested. The theme, "Audiovisual and Multimedia as part of the Curricula in Library Schools and Continuing Education - Visions and Realities," will be explored in the SET session in the following four papers:

• Beyond ECDL: basic and advanced IT skills for the new library professional. Alan Poulter, Graduate School of Informatics, University of Strathclyde,Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
• Technology and training: Using video–Presentation technique and communication skills. Jasmina Ninkov, Director, Municipal Public library "Milutin Bojic, Belgrade, Serbia.
• CALIS (Computer-assisted learning for information searching). Véronique Hadengue, School of business administration (HEG), Department of information studies, Campus de Battelle, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Report on a the Results of a Global Web-based Survey of Continuing Education and Training Needs of Library Staff. Phyllis B. Spies, Vice President, Worldwide Library Services, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio USA.

The full-day off-site workshop on Thursday will be sponsored by SET alone for the morning session and jointly by SET and the School Libraries and Resource Centers Section for the afternoon session. The morning session will focus on the theme "Library & Info. Science Education in Germany," and will include, in addition a " Progress Report on the World Guide to Library, Archive and Information Science Education."

Evelyn Daniel, Chair of the complex, 3-year (or more) project to update The World Guide to Library, Archive and Information Science Education (2^nd ed., Saur, 1995), has informed me that she will not be able to make it to the Berlin meeting, but that she will send a student of hers who is involved in the project to give the report at the workshop, and that she will also send me an update for presentation at the SET meeting. In a recent email to me Evelyn wrote that after the money from SET was used up the project lay fallow "for a long time" until the next injection of funding arrived, followed by another spate of activity. She continues saying that recently she reached an agreement with Saur for additional funding, and on the basis of the promise from Saur she hired a student to get the scripting done so that input can take place via the Internet. She reports further that they will start doing their own input to test the system and then correspond with members of IFLA-SET asking them to input information from their schools to see what problems they may have. Since she has decided to wait for the funding before proceeding, she has pushed the publication date to August 2005, although she is still hoping it will be finished a year earlier. By Berlin, Evelyn concludes, the student reporting should have "something to show."

The other papers/presentations in the morning session include:

1. Library and information science education in Germany - An overview"
2. "The Austrian model of library and information science education"
3. "Recent developments of educating and training librarians in Switzerland"

The first presentation will be made by Bernd Lorenz, The Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, while the speakers for the second and third presentations will be announced in Berlin.

The afternoon workshop session, jointly sponsored with the School Libraries and Resource Centers Section, will report on "New trends for the education of school librarians." The workshop will focus on the new competencies required from school librarians, and on how their education is delivered. A discussion will be proposed about the opportunity of recruiting school librarians or teacher librarians. Presentations include:

• Education for school librarianship: Issues and trends. Claude Morizio, Documentaliste formateur, IUFM de Poitou-Charentes , Poitiers, France, and James Henri, Deputy Director CITE, University of Hong Kong, will be the speakers for SET.
• A model for designing library media preparation programs based on national guidelines: Information power and the University of Maryland. Delia Neuman, Associate Professor and Coordinator, School library media program, College of Information studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• L’enseignement en information par l’enseignant-documentaliste du système éducatif français = Teaching information : a challenge for teacher librarians in France. Vincent Liquète, Maître de conférences SIC, IUFM d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FRANCE.
• Les compétences du bibliothécaire scolaire dans un contexte de changement de méthodologie éducative = The competencies of school librarians in the changing context of new educational methods. Monica Baro Llambias and Teresa Maña, Facultat de Bibliotheconomia i Documentacio, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, SPAIN.
• Formation et responsabilité éducative du documentaliste scolaire pour l'école de la société de la connaissance = Training and educational responsibility for school librarians in the knowledge society. Donatella Lombello, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’educazione, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
• Competencies in school librarianship: An African overview. Charles Batambuze, General Secretary, Uganda Library Association, : Uganda, and Sandy Zinn, Lecturer, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
• Education for school librarians: Trends and issues from selected developing countries. Gerald Brown, Consultant, NA, Winnipeg, Canada; Constanza Mekis, National Coordinator of Libraries MECE-Media Program, Ministry of Education, Chile; and Sandra Lee, Lecturer, University of Hong Kong.

Presenters in the afternoon session will form a panel to discuss the issues in their papers.

The organizers of the proposed Geneva-based Satellite Meeting, "E-learning for marketing and management in libraries" = "E-formation pour le marketing et le management en bibliotheque," a joint project of SET and the Management and Marketing Section (Rejean Savard, EBSI, Universite de Montreal, Chair and Francoise LeRouge, enssib, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, the SET representative) have issued a May 30 deadline for submission of papers for the meeting, so presumably it is being planned and we will know for sure if it will be held soon after this imminent deadline.

Finally, John Harvey, our hard-working (and long-suffering) Information Officer has sent me his Annual Report for 2002-3 because he will not be able to attend the Berlin Conference for health reasons, although he expressly stated his interest in continuing as Information Officer and Editor of the Set Bulletin and the Set Newsletter. In spite of continuing complaints that he still receives almost no reader feedback except from Terry Weech, John and his Secretary, Janet Assadourian managed to publish two issues each of the Newsletter and the Bulletin last year. John has asked that we discuss in Berlin the direction that the Bulletin and the Newsletter should be moving in the future in light of the lack of original articles sent to him, and that we consider the possibility of merging the two publications. In addition he notes that SET does not seem to give much thought to "training," only to "education," and that indeed he has seen very little literature on training, although in his opinion "training and library education are very different fields." At any rate, John has suggested that perhaps a brain-storming session can be held in Berlin to give further thought to the development of these two publications. It seems to me that what needs to be done, first of all, is to set up a committee within SET to deal with these and other issues he sets forth in his report (which will be read in full in Berlin), and I or the new Chair will need to deal with the future of the SET publications at one of the two SET meetings.

I have not heard from Ole Harbo, who swears he is writing the history of SET, so I choose to assume the project is moving along. I will write to him soon and ask if he has indeed progressed and plans to give or send a report on his project for the meeting.

I think that’s it, both for this quarter and for my Chairmanship. IFLA has been, from the first day I set foot in my first conference, the professional organization I loved on sight, and SET, with which I also became acquainted at my first conference, has and will remain my focus in IFLA. SET continues to deal with the vital issues of the profession in which I have invested my life and energies – library and information education – from a global view that is essential if we are to establish standards and continuously improve our content and methodologies for preparing future generations of information professionals. The elected members of this committee, my friends and colleagues from all over the globe, are the cream of the LIS education community, and it has been a great honor and pleasure for me to chair this important committee for the past two years. I thank you all for your hard work and cooperation, with a special thanks and a large dose of affection as well to Terry Weech, who has given endless time and endless good advice to SET and to me. I look forward to continuing my work on SET with a new and excellent set of officers.

Sincerely,
Susan Lazinger
May 29, 2003
Jerusalem

My Secretary, Janet Assadourian, and I published two issues of the Newsletter and two issues of the Bulletin during the past year. They were relatively full issues.

Faults in the present situation regarding both publications are much the same as last year:

1. There is almost no reader feedback. Is anyone reading these publications?
2. I never get suggestions of ways to improve these publications, except from Terry Weech. Terry’s suggestions are always welcome, but nobody else has any. What is the caliber of our readership?

The mailing list is changed frequently and we get updates from Kelly Moore at the IFLA membership office regularly.

In what direction should the Newsletter and Bulletin be moving in the future? Many more original articles should be published but at the present time no-one sends us anything. We even have difficulty in getting reports from regular meetings to reproduce.

Probably some thought should be given to combining the Bulletin and the Newsletter, although they have to some extent separate markets. I haven’t thought this through yet but I should try to do that in the coming year. As you can see I tend to think of the two publications as being similar and that may be a fault of mine. However, I find that most things which I try to publish fit about as well into one publication as into the other.

We appear to be trying to cover three fields here, Distance Education, Library Education and Library Training. Our parent organizations need to separate out these ideas better than they have in the past. Almost nobody seems to pay any attention to training. There is a good deal of material available on distance education and library education but I don’t seem to be able to find much material on training. The Section on Library Education and Training has apparently not given this problem much thought, but training and library education are very different fields in my view.

We need to give more attention to what other groups are doing in our fields and I am thinking here not of library groups but of groups in other subject fields. I assume we can learn from them.

We need further to move toward publishing each publication three times a year, or at least publishing the Bulletin that often.

I suggest in Berlin a brain-storming session be held to give further thought to the development of the two publications. We need to differentiate them more completely and relate them more closely to publications in other subject fields. In order to do that someone needs to subsidize my office with subscriptions to the publications in these fields which I never see since I am not willing to pay my own money to subscribe to them.

An editorial board or a small advisory group is needed by each title.

Long ago I suggested that we needed an associate editor for the Bulletin, but nothing ever happened. I make this suggestion again. I try to cover Library Journal, Library Literature, College and Research Libraries and other titles looking for articles. We need to have an editor or associate editor who can make original contributions to each publication.

We need to publish the minutes of every meeting of our two groups.

Respectfully submitted,

John F. Harvey, Editor