ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE EDUCATION

STATISTICAL REPORT QUESTIONNAIRE 2001

PART V

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Please complete the following contact information identifying the person completing this part of the Statistical Report.  This will help if questions arise in interpreting the data.  Please be sure to return this cover sheet with the questionnaire.

	Name:							
	Title:			

	Phone Number:					

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	University:		

If questions arise in completing this part of the questionnaire, or if you have comments on its content, please contact the author of this section:

Jana Varlejs
School of Communication, Library and Information Studies
Rutgers University 
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071

Telephone:  732-932-1726
Fax:  732-932-2644
Email:  varlejs@scils.rutgers.edu

PART V:  CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

This section should include information on continuing education activities which are offered specifically for practicing information professionals during the 2000-2001 academic year.  

Do not include activities or courses intended primarily for library/information science degree program students.  Report 6th year and other post-masters enrollments in regular masters and doctoral courses in Student Section.  

Please refer to definitions pages at the end of this section and read all definitions before answering the questions below.

Please append announcements of continuing education activities.

1.A	Type, Number, Duration, Location, etc.  Please provide all information for each type of activity reported.

A.

Non-Credit Activity
(Use definitions provided)
	Col. 1

Total Number Held	Col. 2

Total No.
Contact
Hours
(for activities in Col. 1 Do not multiply by Col. 3)	Col. 3

Total
Attendance
	Col. 4

Number of programs which offered CEUs
	Col. 5

Number held on campus	Col. 6

Number held off campus	Col. 7

Number delivered by alternate methods (specify)
	
institute
symposium
conference forum								
workshop								
seminar								
colloquium/
lecture								
short course								
tutorial
individualized
instruction								
other,
please specify
_____________
_____________								
TOTAL								
If CEUs were not awarded as a matter of policy, indicate so here:  ________
Col. 5 refers to courses.  Do not multiply by number of students.

1.B	Did you offer CE courses specifically designed for practitioners who were not candidates for a degree (i.e., not enrolled in 6th year, masters, or doctoral degree programs) for which academic credits were granted?

	_______yes (if yes, complete the following)   ________no

B.

Credit Activity	
1.0 credit hour	
2.0 credit hours	
3.0 credit hours	
Total enrollment	
Number held on campus	
Number held off campus	
Number delivered
by alternative methods
(specify)3	
1-2 week short course								
3-4 week short course								
5-6 week course								
7+ week course								
evening								
weekend								
tutorial								
other:
________
								
TOTAL								
	3If the method was teleconference, indicate whether you produced it or received it.

1.C	Please indicate the number of contact hours that equals one credit hour.

__________

2.	Primary geographical groups
	From where did your attendees come? (see geographical definitions)

Local	_____%
State/Province	_____%
Regional	_____%
National	_____%

3.	Financial Support

	From where did your continuing education support come:  for salaries for the CE 	portion of administrators and support staff, for stipends or salaries of CE teaching 	staff, for travel and other expenses associated by CE speakers/faculty, facility rental and other CE program related costs. (Exclude overhead for own facility space use, both as office and as CE event site.)

Fees	_____%
Institutional	_____%
Contracts and grants	_____%
Federal	_____%
Other than federal	_____%
Others (specify)
___________________	_____%
___________________	_____%

Total	  100%

4.	Compensation for continuing education program faculty

How was the fee or honorarium for presenters/instructors determined?  Check all 	that are applicable.

	Non-credit Activities	Courses for Credit	
	School’s Own Faculty	Outside Instructors	School’s Own Faculty	Outside Instructors	
Negotiated					
Flat Fee					
Formula (please
explain)
_____________
_____________
_____________
					
Part of teaching load (no extra compensation)					

5.	Faculty/Staff
	Indicate the extent to which you used your own faculty and other instructor/presenters.

	not at all				to a great extent	
Own library/information science faculty	1	2	3	4	5	
Visiting library/information science faculty	1	2	3	4	5	
Non LIS faculty in own institution	1	2	3	4	5	
Non LIS faculty from other institution	1	2	3	4	5	
Library/information science practitioners	1	2	3	4	5	
Consultants	1	2	3	4	5	
Vendors	1	2	3	4	5	
Others (Specify)	
______________________________	1	2	3	4	5	
______________________________	1	2	3	4	5	

6.	Administration and Coordination
	Who administered (A) and/or coordinated (C) your continuing education program?
	Indicate A and/or C for all that apply:

	Total Program	Individual Activities	
a.	Library School coordinator (other than d, e, or f)			
b.	University Office of CE or Extension			
c.	Faculty Committee			
d.	One faculty member as permanent administrator			
e.	Faculty rotate			
f.	Dean or director			

DEFINITIONS

Colloquium – A series of lectures or seminars convened by a coordinator but featuring different
	speakers or leaders.

Conference – A general type of meeting, usually of one or more days’ duration, attended by a
fairly large number of people.  The emphasis is on prepared presentations by authoritative speakers, although division into smaller group sessions for discussion purposes is often a related activity.

Continuing Education Unit (CEU) – Ten contact hours of participation in an organized 
	continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction and
	qualified instruction.

Individualized Method of Learning – A method of learning that allows the learner to control
	the rate of his/her progress in learning.  The communication method is correspondence
	(mail), computer, programmed text or teaching machine, independent learning on  
	campus.

Institute – Similar to a conference but more tightly structured.  Emphasis on providing 
	instruction in principles and techniques.  Institute program may have some continuity,
	meeting on a yearly basis for example.

Lecture – A carefully prepared oral presentation of a subject by an expert.

Seminar – A small group of people with the primary emphasis on discussion under a leader or
resource person or persons.  In continuing higher education, a seminar is more likely to 
	be a one-time offering, although it may continue for several days.

Short course – A sequential offering, as a rule under a single instructor, meeting on a regular
	basis for a stipulated number of class sessions over a short period of time (one to three
	weeks, etc.).  The non-credit course may resemble the credit course in everything but the
	awarding of credit.  It may also be more informal and more flexible in its approach in 
	order to meet the needs of student.

Symposium/Forum – Similar to a Conference or an Institute.  Audience participation.

Tutorial or Primer – A brief remedial exposition of a subject in order to provide a foundation
	for more in-depth learning; generally delivered by an expert in the lecture mode.

Workshop – Usually meets for a continuous period of time over a period of one or more days.
	The distinguishing feature of the workshop is that it combines instruction with laboratory
	or experiential activity for the participant.  The emphasis is more likely to be on skill
	training than on general principles.

GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITIONS

Local – Majority of attendees from within one hour travel time.

Regional – At least some attendees come from outside the state or province.

National – At least some attendees come from beyond the region.