COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS

WASHINGTON HOTLINE

by Carol C. Henderson Deputy Director ALA Washington Office

Comments are invited on library education study. The Education Department, through its Office of Libraries and Learning Technologies under the Higher Education Act title II-B research and demonstration program, recently awarded a contract to King Research, Inc. to determine the present and future competencies needed by library and information science professionals and to examine the educational requirements necessary to achieve those competencies.

The study, “New Directions for Library and Information Science Education,” is addressed to traditional roles of information professionals as well as new, emerging roles, and to formal education as well as ongoing, continuing education. A planning process will be established to identify, define, describe and validate competencies; define education and training requirements; design and implement curricula; establish and validate measures of competency attainment; and evaluate curricula. This planning process will be documented so that it can be repeated as needed by associations or institutions.

The contractor has established an Advisory Group of consultants and experts, plans a quarterly project newsletter, and will make copies of working documents available for review. Comments and suggestions from interested parties are encouraged, particularly relating to job descriptions, career paths, education and training received and required, and to identify potential test sites. Those interested should contact the Project Director, Dr, Jose-Marie Griffiths at 6000 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland 20852; (301) 881-6766.

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To best serve your needs, we have formed five problem-solving service teams to help take the hassle out of book-buying. Each team is composed of a Sales Representative in the field and a Customer Service Representative in our home office.

Once alerted by your phone call made on our Toll-Free WATS Line, 1-800-325-8833, (Missouri customers, please call COLLECT 0-314-739-3100) your problem-solving team, geographically assigned to your library, goes into action immediately.

It is another facet of Midwest Library Service’s tradition of excellence.

May we have the privilege of serving your library?

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