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Annual Report 1994-1995
Ms Patricia G. Oyler (Simmons College SLIS, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 5898, USA (fax: +(1-617) 2374875)) was re-elected Chair of the Round Table on Continuing Professional Education. Ms Thelma H. Tate (Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University, POB 270, Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA (fax: +(1-908) 9326777; e-mail: tate@zodiac.rutgers.edu)) was re-elected Secretary.
The annual report and minutes of meetings were not received.
The Round Table held an open session on the theme, "Responsibilities of Library Schools to Support Graduates throughout the Life of their Careers". The following papers were presented.
Academic Support through the Worklife: A New Mandate
by DARLENE E. WEINGAND
Abstract:
This is a time of unprecedented social and technological change. It has become increasingly difficult to maintain competence in the workplace. It is also a time of an increasing demand for accountability from our institutions. The intent of this paper is to suggest that the mission of higher education in general, and professional schools more specifically, has changed. It is no longer sufficient to educate and graduate a student, perhaps give assistance in job placement, and then turn the student's name over to the alumni association so that an annual contribution can be solicited. The argument is made that there is a strong movement toward academic accountability, and that students have a right to expect their colleges and universities to provide continuing academic support and updating throughout their worklives.
Preliminary Report on the Literature of Continuing Education in Library and Information Science in Non-US Locations, 1991-1995
by ELIZABETH AVERSA and ELIZABETH STONE
Abstract:
This paper presents a report of a literature search performed in order to identify continuing education activities in librarianship in countries other than the United States. The primary aims of the project were to help determine what the prevailing interest in continuing education is worldwide (as reflected in the professional literature) and to report to the IFLA Round Table on Continuing Professional Education so that a determination could be made regarding the feasibility of developing an ongoing database of worldwide continuing education activity in the field. The citations identified through the searches performed for the study do not constitute an exhaustive bibliography, but the literature identified was used as a marker of interest in continuing education from various country, language and journal groupings. Six indexing and abstracting services databases were searched through the DIALOG (now Knight-Ridder Information) system and one was searched through H.W. Wilson's online service.
Planning to Meet an Ever-Growing Need: A Model for Running Continuing Education
by JENS THORHAUGE
Planning the World Continuing Education Conference III
by BLANCHE WOOLLS
Abstracts:
Not available.
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