This study was designed to: (1) evaluate the Community Librarians' Training Courses which had been conducted for five years in New York State to train persons without professional library training who were serving as librarians and (2) appraise the entire training program of the Library Extension Division in order to make recommendations and…

Programs for the training of library technical assistants exist in more than 31 states of the United States and six provinces of Canada. Through the questionnaire developed to survey the status of these training programs a total of 134 have been identified: 118 in the U.S. and 16 in Canada. This directory of schools offering training programs for…

Training of supervisory personnel in libraries is a relatively new practice. The first year of an in-house program is described with suggestions for increasing its effectiveness. (10 references) (DH)

This conference was held to provide a forum for wide-range discussions of library technical assistant training. Junior college educators and library personnel from school, college and special libraries presented papers on these topics--(1) the junior college perspective on library technology, including the education of library technical assistants…

The success of library education in the future is dependent on the planning that is done now. To evaluate the needs of future library education we must note the changes taking place in society as a whole. For example, it is clear that the libraries of the future must serve all groups of a society, in widely different environments. Librarians must…

Discusses the importance of continuing education--post-degree education helping to produce an additional competency in the student--for librarians, and briefly reviews the availability of professional continuing education programs in Canadian library schools. (CWM)

This study was conducted to assess and identify continuing education (CE) needs for medical librarianship and to design, implement, and evaluate program components responsive to these needs. Needs were assessed through: (1) a survey carried out within regional Medical Library Association (MLA) groups; (2) contents of journal literature compared…

Recruitment of potential college students to the field of librarianship and promotion of the library education department of Kutztown State College were the dual goals of a two-part project undertaken by the faculty and students of that department. The first approach consisted of slide-talk presentations made by Kutztown library students to local…

A study was conducted to determine the employment possibilities for graduates of the library technology program offered at Sauk Valley College, Dixon, Illinois. Because a junior college has a major obligation to serve the needs of the local area, the study was limited to the elementary and secondary schools, hospitals, public libraries and several…

Contained in this report are the thoroughly documented findings of a survey for a basic curriculum to equip middle and upper level personnel for managing the growth and change confronting their libraries. The study contains the data and fully describes the survey method that is the basis for the proposed curriculum. Its aim is to upgrade the…

The organization and development of the library education system in the USSR is described by K. I. Abramov of the Moscow State Institute of Culture and is summarized in a comment paper by Charles D. Churchwell, Washington University. Abramov begins by stating the philosophical basis for the existence of libraries and librarians in the USSR, and…

INCLUDED IN THESE PROCEEDINGS ARE SUMMARIES OF THE SPEECHES, PANELS, AND GROUP DISCUSSIONS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE. THE TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE--(1) HISTORY AND BACKGROUND ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNCIL ON LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY, (2) THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP IN TODAY'S SOCIETY, (3)…