... Licensed re-use rights only Africa Training LIS education Faculty-library collaboration LIS curriculum University of Botswana Library and Information Science (LIS) education has to keep abreast with the latest technological developments and teaching methods must be tailored...

... management Training Special libraries Knowledge management Corporate information services In A Handbook for Corporate Information Professionals, Dr Katharine Schopflin, the editor, brings together contributions from practitioners in areas that managers of corporate information centres...

... in academic libraries. Lack of trained staff in ICT, low level of ICT skills among library users, unawareness of potential benefits of ICT and inadequate ICT infrastructure were found as the major barriers of ICT applications in academic libraries. Practical implications – Academic libraries in India...

...Yacoob Hosein; Portia Bowen-Chang Purpose – This paper aims to provide a study of a structured approach at map cataloguing training by a team of cataloguers at the Alma Jordan Library of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Design/methodology/approach...

...Yacoob Hosein; Portia Bowen‐Chang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of cataloguing training for professionals at the St Augustine Campus Libraries of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, with emphasis on the cataloguing of special formats...

... with a vision. The authors intend to continue the process by working to embed the values and providing more of these opportunities for their staff, looking next at training needs. Originality/value Merging staff from different services can be difficult and threaten the success of joint‐use libraries...

...Louise Ellis‐Barrett Stephanie   Gerding . The Accidental Technology Trainer: A Guide for Libraries . Medford, NJ : Information Today Inc.   2007 . 250 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐57387‐269‐0   US$29.50 paperback © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Training...

...Portia Bowen‐Chang; Yacoob Hosein Purpose This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of a series of in‐house training offered to cataloguers and para‐professional cataloguing staff at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Design/methodology/approach...

... them. Educating and training a forward‐looking and effective work‐force, the people we have and people we want and need, at pre‐practitioner and at continuing education levels, is central to the strategy. Some have been saying this for years, banging on like Jeremiahs, seeming to promote vested...

...‐85604‐612‐1   £24.95 Paperback © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Professional education Training Human resource management Careers evaluation The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) introduced a new framework of qualifications...

...Neil M. Bruce Training Volunteers Edited by Julie   Todaro and Mark L.   Smith . Training Library Staff and Volunteers to Provide Extraordinary Customer Service . London : Facet Publishing   2006 . 160 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 10: 1‐85604‐599‐4 paperback   £39.95 ©...

...Joseph M. Kavulya Purpose First, to assess the status of the job market for library and information science (LIS) professionals in Kenya and the adequacy of current curricula and training resources in LIS training institutions in the country. Secondly, to identify priority areas of training...

...Pat Noon Ann   Poyner . Enabling End Users: Information Skills Training . Oxford : Chandos Publishing   2005 . 147 pp. paperback £39.00 , ISBN: 1‐84334‐109‐3 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Information literacy Library users Training...

... 304 pages , ISBN: 1‐85604‐494‐7   £44.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Education Training Computers Computer‐based training This text has three parts: Part I: Planning and Management; Part II: Evaluation and Assessment; Part III: Design and Development. Each part...

...Helen Dunford Training Skills for Library Staff . Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD , 2003 . 237 pp. , ISBN: 0810847477   US $45.00 (soft) Barbara Allan and revised and adapted by Barbara Moran © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Libraries Training As we...

...Nick Joint Traditional approaches to library training flourished in the period of hard copy collection building, when certain common generic skills, such as those of cataloguing and indexing, formed the bedrock of knowledge for many LIS professionals. The skills required in the digital library...

... the university's Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and Instructional Technology Center (ITC). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Training Libraries Information services Literacy An active staff exchange program between the libraries of Iowa State University and Glasgow University bore unexpected...

... concluded: The “training for information user in basic education” must include activities aimed at showing students the way in general to information sources, teaching them how to get access and how to use the retrieved information effectively (NOBIN, 1981). Two years later NOBIN wrote...

... to be much the same as in most comparable countries: IL as a responsibility for all learning facilitators, social awareness of lifelong learning needs, training of IL trainers, assessing the individual achievements and the institutional outcomes of IL training programmes, and a clear understanding...

... school students. Her results indicate that the teachers live up to the minimum requirements as far as these new pedagogical methods are concerned, mainly relying on the textbook and traditional classroom teaching. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Training Libraries Information services Literacy...