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Trends in Continuing Education for Librarians and Documentalists


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A review of the current ideas on continuing education of librarians is presented. The variety of factors which make continuing education in library science a necessity, is described. Detailed description of formal and informal methods with their advantages and disadvantages are given. Implementation of programmes of continued education will help acceleration of generation and dissemination of ideas, thereby promoting efficient library service. Agencies for conducting such programmes are mentioned.
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S. Seetharama
Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 560003
India

M. A. Gopinath
Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 560003
India


Notifications

  • Sec 13 ALLEN (J E) quoted in STONE (E W). Personnel development and continuing education in libraries: An introduction. (Lib Trends. 20; 1971; 10).

  • Sec III BENNIS quoted in STONE (E W). Quest for expertise: A librarian's responsibility. (Coll Res Lib. 32; 1971, 435).

  • Sec 115/116/118 BRODMAN (E). A philosophy of continuing education. (Bull Med Lib Assoc. 56; 1968; 147).

  • Sec 5 DAVIS (R A). Continuing education: Formal and informal. (Spec Lib. 58; 1967;29).

  • Sec 14 GAVER (M V). The educational third dimension. I. Continuing education to meet the personalized criteria of librarians. (Lib Trends. 20; 1971 ; 125).

  • Sec 12, 211, 225 HARVEY (J F) and LAMBERT (B). The educational third dimenSion. II. Programs for continuing library education. (Lib Trends. 20; 1971; 144-68).

  • Sec 12 HIATT (P). The educational third dimension. III. Toward the development of a national program of continuing education for Library personnel. (Lib Trends. 20; 1971 ;169-83).

  • Sec 01 HOULE (C O) quoted in STONE (E W). Personnel development and continuing education in libraries: An introduction. (Lib Trends 20; 1971; 3-18).

  • Sec 13 HOULE (C O). The role of continuing education in current professional development. (ALA Bul. 61; 1967; 260).

  • Sec 111 JESSE (W H) and MITCHELL (A E). Professional staff opportunitIes for study and research. (Coli Res lib. 29; 1968; 87).

  • Sec 12/34 KASER (D). The training subsystem. (Lib Trends. 20; 1971; 74).

  • Sec 117 KLEMPNER (I M). Information centers and continuing education for librarianship. (Spec lib. 59; 1968; 729-32).

  • Sec 225/33 NEELAMEGHAN (A). Research in library science: Its need and its promotion. (Lib Sc. 4; 1967; Paper C).

  • Sec 2141 SHANK (R). In-service training in libraries. (ALA Bull. 55; 1961; 38).

  • Sec 112 SHERA (J H). Sociological foundations of librarianship. 1970. Sec H56.

  • Sec 02/14 STONE (E W). Factors related to the professional development of librarians. 1969. P21.

  • Sec III 14 STONE (E W). Quest for expertise: A librarian's responsibility. (Coll Res Lib. 32; 1971; 432-41).

  • Sec 2141 TUKER (W H) quoted in WIGHT (E A). Inservice training of professional librarians in college and university libraries. (Coli Res Lib. 10; 1949; 103-7).


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Authors

S. Seetharama
Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 560003, India
M. A. Gopinath
Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore 560003, India

Abstract


A review of the current ideas on continuing education of librarians is presented. The variety of factors which make continuing education in library science a necessity, is described. Detailed description of formal and informal methods with their advantages and disadvantages are given. Implementation of programmes of continued education will help acceleration of generation and dissemination of ideas, thereby promoting efficient library service. Agencies for conducting such programmes are mentioned.

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