... taking a course on academic libraries as part of a professional education degree program, approached the task of designing and conducting a “one-shot” space assessment project. In particular, the instructor-investigator was interested in examining across the six cohorts the independent thinking...

... --> Internet Communications technologies Teaching Professional education Web 2.0 In most cases, the school librarian is the only information professional within a school. As such, they should be leading the way in the effective use of the internet and the development of the literacy skills students...

... Conferences Professional education Ever since I first became aware of IFLA's existence and that it has an annual conference, I have wanted to go to experience it. This year I had the opportunity and so endeavoured to make the most of it. Arriving at Gothenburg's Landvetter Airport on Monday 9 August...

... ”, American Libraries , March , pp. 55 ‐ 6 . Libraries Workplace Career development Professional education Librarians In November 2004 as the columnist for Working Knowledge, my monthly column for American Libraries, I addressed the issue of age discrimination...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Libraries Librarians Succession planning Employees Professional education United States of America Recently one of my Board members, Mary E. White, asked that I attend a workshop with her on succession planning. At first I was concerned – did she know something...

... it started. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Public libraries Collections management Professional education Networking United States of America Mexico Three years ago, after a career as an assistant dean of a library school, I returned back to public librarianship...

... to continue their professional education after completing their initial studies and describes the work of the Croatian Training Centre for Continuing Education for Librarians, which was created in 2002. A legal obligation for librarians to attend the Centre is called for, so that employers would have to give...

... Professional education Fiction Reader services Lifelong learning In public libraries across the USA, Canada and Europe the most consistent use of libraries by patrons is for borrowing leisure reading, usually fiction [1] . In US and Canadian public libraries, 80 percent of patrons surveyed state...

...Aleksandra Horvat Prior to the recent establishment of the Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians, training of librarians in Croatia had been organized sporadically by several organizations in the field. For the majority of librarians, however, professional education could have...

... concentrate on developing global continuing professional development. This section does provide some specific case studies of Canada and South Africa, but the emphasis is on the wider issues of co‐operation and worldwide professional education. For example, there are articles on East‐West co‐operation between...