From the SET Program Meeting in Beijing, 1996. Seated in front row: Steffen Rückl, chair of the Section on Education and Training, and Evelyn Daniel, Secretary. Standing behind them are speakers: Hazel Dakers, Rowena Cullen, Shaoyi He, and Xiaoying Dong.

The Section on Education and Training (SET) has scheduled meetings and programs for the following dates and times:

Saturday, 30 August 1200-1450 p.m. SET Business Meeting

Wednesday, 3 September 1530-1800 p.m. SET Program - Open Session

Thursday, 4 September 0900 a.m. -1700 p.m. SET Workshop Session to be held at Royal

Friday, 5 September 0830-1020 a.m. SET Business Meeting

The program session on Wednesday will be on the theme, Library and Information Science Education and the Electronic Environment. There will be simultaneous interpretation.

Scheduled speakers and the titles of their papers are as follows:

JOHN W. BERRY (USA) Distance Learning: The Role of Libraries in Delivering

Education for Literacy and Lifelong Learning

IAN JOHNSON (UK) The Development of Education, Training and Research

for the Electronic Library: Challenges and Opportunities

SIRJA VIRKUS (Estonia) Education and Training of Librarians and Information

Professionals in the Networked Environment

ORNELLA FOGLIENI (Italy) How the Library Service is Changing with Multimediality and

the Global Network: A New Librarian for a New Role

The workshop session has been planned jointly with Ole Harbo, Rector, and his staff at the Royal School of Librarianship. A full day's program will be held at the Danish school and will include the following:

Morning Session:

0930 - 1030 a.m. International Speakers on Developments in Library and Information Science

in Estonia

KAREN BROWN and Change and Learning in the Lives of Librarians

MIRIAM POLLACK (USA)

NEIL GREEVE (Australia) School Leaver Attitudes towards Librarianship: Results

of a Survey

ISMAIL ABDULLAHI Integration of Cultural Diversity Issues and Internationalism

(USA) in the Education of Library and Information Science Programs:

A Platform for Change

1000 - 1045 a.m. Coffee Break in the Exhibition Area, Lower Floor

1045 - 1215 Presentation of the programs and projects of Royal School of Library and

Lunch may be purchased in the school's cafeteria. Before or During Lunchtime: Please sign up for participation in one of the following nine workshops to be held in the Conference Hall. Please note the workshops will be repeated twice -- from 1300 to 1415 and again from 1445 to 1500.

1300 - 1415 p.m. Workshops with colleagues from the Royal School of Library and Information

Science, Conference Hall

1415 - 1445 p.m. Coffee Break

1445 - 1500 p.m. Repeat of Nine Workshops listed below

Workshop Topics:

1. Telework '96: An International Collaborative Learning Package for Information

Entrepreneurs

 

2. The Rainforest: Multimedia Project in Cooperation with Copenhagen Zoo

1. How do We Educate Information Specialists in Science?

1. Fiction, Public Libraries and the Literary Market

 

2. Children as a Cultural and Democratic Challenge

 

3. Construction of Image Data Bases

 

4. Navigation in the Virtual Library

Russell Bowden - New member

115/1 Parakum Mawatha

Bangalawatte

KOTTAWA, Sri Lanka

M. Chazal - New member

Conservateur, Dir. du Développement scientifique & réseax

Bibliothèque National de France

Quai François Mauriac

75706 PARIS Cedex 13, France

Evelyn Daniel - Second term

School of Information and Library Science

University of North Carolina

CB #3360 Manning Hall

CHAPEL HILL, nc 27599-3360

J. Elkin - New member

Head of School of Information Studies

University of Central England

Perry Barr

BIRMINGHAM, UK

S. Ferguson - New member

Head, Dept. of Library & Information Studies

University of the West Indies

P.O. Box 181

KINGSTON 7, Jamaica

Ole Harbo - Second term

Director, The Royal School of Librarianship

6 Birketinget

DK-2300 COPENHAGEN S. Denmark

Ken Haycock - New member

Director, School of Library, Archival & Information Studies

University of British Columbia

831-1956 Main Hall

VANCOUVER, British Columbia V6T 1Z1

Canada

S. Kalkus - New Member

Asst. Professor, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship

Charles University, Faculty of Philosophy, Celetná 20

110 00 PRAGUE 1, Czech Republic

1. Kaniki - New member

Head of Dept. of Information Studies

University of Natal

Privat Bag X01, Scottsville

PIETERMARITZBURG 3209

South Africa

Senior Teacher, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies

University of Jerusalem

POB 1255

JERUSALEM 91904, Israel

Congratulations to all new and continuing members on their election.

We will approve our new medium term programme -- our plan of work for 1998-2001. A draft of this plan was provided in the January 1997 newsletter. We have approved draft goals for the four year period and done some preliminary work on an action plan for 1998-1999. The goals and the action plan will be the focus of much of our discussion in Copenhagen.

We will elect new officers for the section and say farewell to our leader, Steffen Rückl, who has so ably chaired the session for the past four years and served as secretary for the four years previous to that.

We will hear reports on several new and ongoing projects supported by the section -- the World Guide, the multilingual glossary, a proposed workshop in Chile, an LIS education statistics project, the development of guidelines for LIS education. We will also hear from SET's Roundtable for Continuing Professional Education and the Roundtable for User Education.

Continuing work on issues of reciprocity and course and degree equivalence will also occupy our time.

Finally, we must plan for the Amsterdam conference in 1998 and for Bankok in 1999.

The central office for IFLA provides simultaneous translation service for the program meetings of the session but not for workshops, nor for translation of papers into the five IFLA languages -- English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. In addition, as a courtesy to the host country, sessions and papers are made available in that country's language if it is not one of the five. However with the exception of the main program meeting, all the translation work is done by volunteers. Please contact SET Chair Steffan Rückl (email: steffan=rueckl@rz.hu-berlin.de) or Secretary Evelyn Daniel (daniel@ils.unc.edu) if you can help with this important task.

As of January 1, 1997, the Section on Education and Training has 224 members, an increase over the 208 members in January 1996. This makes SET the fifth largest of IFLA's 33 sections after:

University and Research Libraries 455 Information Technology Section 389 Public Library Section 286

Asia and Oceania Regional Activities 285

Plans for future conference cities after Copenhagen are as follows:

64^th IFLA 1998: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

65^th IFLA 1999: Bangkok, Thailand

66^th IFLA 2000: Jerusalem, Israel

67^th IFLA 2001: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Please send news items concerning information of interest to SET members to editor Evelyn Daniel (email: daniel@ils.unc.edu or at address below).

University of Toronto

140 St. George St.

Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1, Canada

Faculty of Philosophy

Dept. of Information Sceinces

Ivana Lucica 3

41000 Zagreb, Croatia

School of Info. & Library Sci.

University of North Carolina

CB #3360 - Manning Hall

Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3360

School of Lib. & Info. Science

P.O. Box 874

S-501 15 Borås, Sweden

Serv. Biblio. - Reg.Lombardia

Via Fabio Filzi, 22

20124 Milano, Italy

Fach. Für Bib. und Dok.

Claudiusstraße 1

50678 Köln, Germany

Danmarks Biblioteksskole

6 Birketinget

DK-2300 Copenhagen S., Denmark

Norwegian Sch. of LIS

Daelenenggaten, 26

N-0567 Oslo, Norway

Dept. of Information Studies

Tallinn Pedagogical University

25 Narva Road

EE0100 Tallinn, Estonia

University Library

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Drive

San Diego, CA 92182-8050

Bibliothèque de l’université

Paris XII - Val de Marne

Av. Général de Gaulle

94010 Creteil Cedex, France

Cité des sciences - Médiathèque

30, Ave. Corentin Cariou

75930 Paris Cedex 19, France

Lanchester Library

Coventry University

Munchpark

St. Coventry CV 1 2HF, UK

Central University Library

Str. Transilvaniei 6, Sector 1

Bucharest, Romania

Steffan Rückl, CHAIR

Inst. Bib.und wissen.Information

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Clara-Zetkin-Straße, 26

D-10099 Berlin, Germany

Library Plan. & Dev. Div.

Washington State Library

P.O. Box 42472

Olympia, WA 98504-2472

Association of Research Libraries

Office of Management Services

21 Dupont Circle

Washington, DC 20036

Dept. of Library Science

Hacettepe University

Faculty of Letters

06522 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

Sch. of Lib. & Info. Science

University of Wisconsin-Madison

600 North Park Street

Madison, WI 53706