EDUCATIONAL
SECTION - TRAINING CENTER FOR FURTHER EDUCATION OF LIBRARIANS IN THE
CZECH REPUBLIC
The Executive
Committee of the SKIP approved an establishment of a new special section
on 19th FEB 2002:
Educational Section - Traninig Center for Further Education of Librarians
in the Czech Republic
This section is a successor of the Training Center MOLIN and takes its
activities and functions over.
Chairman
Zlata Houšková
The National Library of CR
+420-221-663-330
MAIN OBJECTIVES
OF THE EDUCATIONAL SECTION-TRAINING CENTER
- to organize educational
activities for general professional public
- to organize seminars,
conferences, workshops and/or other common meetings (including international
activities) with a view to special problems concerning further education
of the librarians
- to coordinate
and integrate educational activities for librarians in the Czech Republic
- to improve an
access to information on continuing professional education for a general
professional public
- to create standards
in the sphere of extracurricular professional education and a new evaluation
system of educational programmes
- to support distance
forms of the education
- formation and
fullfilment of connection the long-life workers´ education in all types
of Czech libraries
Main result of
this aspiration is to increase quality and ensure flexibility of library
services as well as adapt them to the level of libraries in the European
Union.
PRESENT TASKS
OF THE SECTION
- to coordinate
educational activities and make contacts with potential partner organizations
and/or institutions
- to create and
maintain web pages of the section in the Czech and English versions,
- to create standards
for the courses and system of professional certification of their contents
- to ensure a large
circle of lecturers qualified for various types of educational programmes,
and currently to build up database of the contacts,
- to work out a
conception of the long-life education for librarians in the Czech Republic
and its connection with salaries and wages and possibilities of professional
career
Nowadays the Training
Center comprises 14 regional centers for further education of librarians
in the Czech Republic.
Everyone concerned with a work of the section is welcomed !!!
10.03.2003
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