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Conference Session 105

Future Libraries – Future Librarians – Future Skills: Directions for the education and training of children’s and youth librarians - the challenge of identifying competencies and encouraging professional development in the digital age

Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

19 August 2013 13:45 - 15:45 | Room: Exhibition Hall 404-405 | SI

• Keynote Paper: Who will serve the children: recruiting and educating future children’s librarians
  VIRGINIA WALTER (Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
• Required skills for children and youth librarians in the digital age
  DALIA HAMADA and SYLVIA STAVRIDI (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt)
• For the love of reading! New strategies to engage the next generation of readers
  RANEETHA RAJARATNAM (National Library Board, Singapore)
• Nature or nurture? How do we prepare library staff for head, heart and hands tasks?
  INGRID BON (Biblioservice Gelderland, Arnhem, The Netherlands)
• Continuing education for children's librarians: a 50 year-old French programme and its priorities today
  CLAUDINE HERVOUËT (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Centre national de la littérature pour la jeunesse, Paris, France)
• Essential competencies of indian school librarians in the digital age: a study
  RASHMI KUMBAR (Adani Vidya Mandir, Makarba, Gujarat, India) and DEEPTI PATTANSHETTI (The Euro School, Maharashtra, Gujarat, India)