Library Education

The American Library Association (ALA) Committee on Education is presenting a forum on Library Education. The forum will be held 1:30-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver in the Colorado Convention Center in Room 702/706.

The Forum on Library Education will be dedicated to the Core competences of librarianship, as set out in a document being presented to the ALA Council for approval at the meeting.

The event continues the dialog on issues in library and information science education and identifies new issues and challenges confronting the profession. The discussion will be moderated by Michael Gorman, university librarian emeritus, California State University, Fresno, and will feature presentations on the Core competences by two LIS educators, Rick Rubin, director, Kent State University, School of Library, and Ken Haycock, director, San Jose State University, School of Library, and two practitioners, Sherrie Schmidt, university librarian, Arizona State University, and J. Linda Williams, coordinator, Library Media Services, Anne Arundel County Public Schools. There will be ample time for discussion, Q&A sessions and audience interaction.

The first Congress on Professional Education, held in 1999, recommended the establishment of a set of core competences for the profession. Various committees have worked on the competences in the years since. The Presidential Task Force on Library Education has recast the work of those committees into a document setting out the desired outcomes of an ALA-accredited master’s level education. It does not prescribe a “core curriculum” nor does it state the means by which ALA-accredited programs should achieve the prescribed outcomes. Once approved, the Core competences will be the basis for revision of ALA’s standards for accreditation that shape how ALA-accredited programs are assessed.

For updates and additional information, please visit the website at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/hrdr/abouthrdr/hrdrliaisoncomm/committeeoned/libraryeducationforum.cfm

Call for Proposals – 5th ALA Forum on Education
5th ALA Forum on Education: Service Learning and Citizen Engagement
We are pleased to announce a call for participation for the 5th ALA Forum on Education to be held on Friday, June 27, 2008 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm during the upcoming ALA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. Masters Level students who have participated in a service learning project or who have designed a yet to be completed service learning project are encouraged to submit a proposal.

The 5th ALA Forum on Education will feature a researchpalooza format followed by a traditional poster session. During the researchpalooza you will address the audience from a podium and present your service learning project in 90 seconds or less with the aid of one PowerPoint slide to an audience of 150 ALA members. Following the researchpalooza presenters will be asked to participate in a poster session where attendees will be able to ask questions and further discuss service learning projects. The researchpalooza format was a great success at MidWinter 2008 and we excited to offer an opportunity to participate in this innovative program.

To participate, please submit the following information via email to alaedforum@gmail.com
Name:
Title of Project:
University Affiliation:
Email Address:
Abstract or short description of service learning project:

Proposals will be accepted through March 16 and presenters will be notified by March 28

For more information please contact Joe Sanchez at joesanchez@austin.utexas.edu

Dear Colleagues:

In case any of you are available on Friday, 11 Jan 2008.

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Forum on Library Education to be
held on Friday, January 11, 2008 from 1:30 to 4:30 pm during the upcoming
ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This Forum is sponsored
by the American Library Association (ALA) and its Committee on Education
(COE). This Forum continues the dialog on issues in library and information
science education and it identifies new issues and new challenges
confronting our profession.

The Forum will focus on the doctoral student experience in schools of
library and information science. As part of this effort, a unique program
will feature a researchapalooza where doctoral students will present their
research to the audience in a mere ninety seconds. Immediately following the
presentations a thirty-minute poster session will take place followed by
facilitated group discussions about the gaps and links between research and
practice. Facilitated discussion topics will include
- Current Status of LIS Ph.D. programs
- Gaps between Practice and Research
- Overlaps between practice and research
- Connections between ALA and LIS student work

To register for 4th ALA Forum on Education - The Ph.D. Experience: Research
into Practice please visit
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/VLBBMSUZSPBLBVTBTJLD/midwinteredforum

This Forum is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and its
Committee on Education (COE).

Host: ALA President Loriene Roy
Location: 201BC (PCC-201BC) Pennsylvania Convention Center
When: Friday, January 11, 1:30PM

The Forum will be held on Friday, January 19, 2007 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in room 602-604. The solicited papers and other program handouts are available on the website at www.ala.org/educationforum.

Please note that the Forum is being filmed by the College of DuPage as background information and to select highlights for a web teleconference on library education to be held later this Spring. Dick Dougherty, former ALA President, is coordinating this effort.

This year's Forum is sponsored by the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), American Library Association (ALA), and the ALA Committee on Education (COE).

For further information or questions contact:

Kimberly Sanders
Program Officer, Education & Scholarships
ALA, Human Resource, Development & Recruitment (HRDR)
800-545-2433 x4279
FAX: 312-280-3256
ksanders@ala.org
www.ala.org/hrdr