Surveys available literature and offers suggestions for future study concerning the academic librarian's responsibility to demonstrate competence in research and publication. Publication in librarianship and other disciplines, role of professional education, relationship with other academic realms, and performance within the library are…

This discussion of the education and training of information professionals in North America includes comments on issues in the preparation of librarians, information scientists, information resource managers, archivists, and records managers. It concentrates on trends in the information sector rather than specific programs, indicates broad…

The challenges to education for librarianship and information science are numerous and great: technology, research, expanding curricula to address problems of special constituencies, and recruiting committed individuals. Changes are occurring rapidly, and practitioners and educators must work together to ensure the challenges are met. Thirteen…

This bibliography represents a literature survey in continuing professional education for librarianship covering the decade from 1965 to 1975. Parts I and II cover continuing education in librarianship and each is subdivided into a section on theory and philosophy and a section on in-service training programs. Part I documents monographs,…

As part of the Project of Further Development of the Czechoslovak Educational System, a program adopted in 1976, library education has been revised beginning in the secondary schools, extending through the university level, and providing continuing education opportunities for librarians, technicians, and researchers. Secondary school curriculums…