Training for professional librarians in Slovakia by distance‐learning methods: an overview of the PROLIB and EDULIB projects Available to Purchase

This article provides an overview of the PROLIB and EDULIB projects, which involved the development and delivery of distance‐learning courses in the Slovak language to library and information professionals in the Slovak Republic. Each course comprised a week of “face‐to‐face” lecture sessions, practicals, and group discussions, followed by three months of guided work through printed self‐study workbooks and computer‐mediated Internet communication. The courses were held in training centres at university libraries in two towns in Central and Eastern Slovakia (Zvolen and Kosice).