    Education and Training SectionAnnual Report 2003I am happy to have the privilege to serve as the Chair of the Standing Committee of the Education and Training Section and look forward to working with Niels Ole Pors, Secretary of the Section, Anna Maria Tammaro, the Information Officer of the Section, and of course, John Harvey, our dedicated editor of the SET (Section on Education and Training) Bulletin. We also have a very competent and involved standing committee. The new members of the Standing Committee are: Jitka Banzetova (Czech Republic), Mouna Bensilmane (Morocco), Jacqueline Dussolin-Faure (France), Josiane Roelants-Abraham (Belgium), Joyce Kirk (Australia), and Anna Maria Tammaro (Italy). For a listing of all 19 members of the Standing Committee, see http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/scmem-set.htm Plans are well underway for the Section's program in Buenos Aires under the capable leadership of Ismail Abdullahi, as Chair of the Program Planning Committee and Assumpcio Estiville and Niels Ole Pors assisting him as members of the Planning Committee. Under new IFLA rules we are restricted to just one event in Buenos Aires instead of our customary planning for an open program and a workshop. This will mean that there will be fewer opportunities for papers to be delivered and this year the Program Committee decided to plan a workshop with invited papers rather than issuing a call for papers because of the limited time available to present papers under this new format. The limited time for programs has led to some disappointment from members who had hoped to submit papers for consideration. Since many members depend on having papers accepted for presentation to obtain funding for attending IFLA, this may result in a lower participation number in future conferences. This is a concern I have as Chair of the Section. Unfortunately, we learned in October that Evelyn Daniel of North Carolina, USA, was resigning from the project to revise the 1995 edition of "The World Guide to Library, Archive and Information Science Education". SET is now seeking a new editor. Funding of $10,000 had been obtained from UNESCO and the Saur Publishing, but the future of funding for the project is now in question. Susan Lazinger and Niels Ole Pors have agreed to co-chair an Advisory Committee on the World Guide revision project and this Advisory Committee will be making recommendations in the near future on the revision project. At the IFLA Conference in Berlin in August of 2003 SET presented a number of successful programs and workshops. Following IFLA encouragement to work with other sections with the organization, a coordinated Program was developed with the Section on Audiovisual and Multimedia on the theme: "Audiovisual and Multimedia as part of the Curricula in Library Schools and Continuing Education - Visions and Realities." An off-site workshop was sponsored by SET in Berlin. Traditionally SET asks the host library education institutions to do a presentation on library education in their country. In Berlin, the morning session was on the theme "Library & Information Science Education in Germany," and included, :
The afternoon workshop session, jointly sponsored with the School Libraries and Resource Centers Section, reported on "New trends for the education of school librarians." The workshop focused on the new competencies required for school librarians, and on how their education is delivered. A discussion was held about the opportunity of recruiting school librarians or teacher librarians. Titles of the presentations of all these programs and workshops may be found in the SET minutes for Berlin at: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s23/annual/set-min03.htm and most of the papers can be found linked from the Berlin program on the web at: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/prog03.htm SET also jointly sponsored a Geneva-based Satellite Meeting, "E-learning for marketing and management in libraries" / "E-formation pour le marketing et le management en bibliotheque." This was a joint project of SET and the Management and Marketing Section held prior to IFLA Berlin in 2003 and the SET component was competently coordinated by Francoise Lerouge from France. For 2004, SET has received funding for a study on Quality of Library Education to be conducted by Anna Maria Tammaro, Department of Cultural Heritage – Section of Library Science, University of Parma, Fiesole, Italy. The progress on this study will be reported on in August of 2004 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We have a revised membership brochure which will be appearing on the Web soon. A call has been issued to SET members to volunteer to translate the leaflet into other languages, Submitted by:
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