On continuing education college library staff

Paper Keywords: continuing education of librarians

Abstract: This article from the library staff the opportunities and challenges facing the start, continuing education of librarians discussed the meaning, necessity, features, content and form.


First, the meaning of the continuing education of librarians

Library staff continuing education is the regular training of staff knowledge and skills to add, update, expand and improve an educational, training of personnel in order to improve the knowledge structure, enhance their professional skills and innovation.


Second, strengthen institutions, librarians need to continue education

(A) is to comply with the requirements of the times
61st IFLA General Conference agreed that the library staff to develop into the "Information consultant" or "administrator." Qian pointed out that 80 years is not a simple librarian for the library, book readers, and knowledge of the pilot. Now, in the construction of digital libraries matures today, readers and librarians in the Information resources is playing a liaison between the role, so librarians in the way of thinking and working methods must be keep pace, which requires us to strengthen the continuing education of librarians, and tap the potential of librarians, librarians stimulate innovation, and strive to train themselves into a knowledge navigator.

(B) the requirements of their own development
Continuing education of librarians for librarians and social development is not only the external demands, but also the development of their own internal needs of librarians, the library to the learning library foundation for the development of Information services to change the basis of knowledge services. With increasingly fierce competition for talent, librarians for their own development needs, through various means the spontaneous continuing education to meet the job requirements.

(C) teaching and research requirements
As we all know, the university library's main task is for the school's teaching and research services. The effectiveness of services for readers and readers to meet the needs of, a library is a measure of the level of signs. As the network and the scientific and technological development, the reader librarians have become increasingly demanding, not only asked for the original service, but also the secondary literature, three documents, the reader needs the Information content is toward the micro-oriented, diversified, practical and time of such direction, especially in our colleges and research institutes in-depth reference services, special services more welcomed by readers. the reader step by step Information needed to tend to use the network to download digital information from the passive acceptance of library services provided to active selection of library services and the way eager to get a higher level, higher level of information services if librarians rely on LIS expertise or knowledge of the network can not meet the needs of information services, which requires strengthening the continuing education of librarians , update their knowledge, adjust their own knowledge structure, knowledge and understanding of key subjects of their respective institutions point to improve their operational capacity, in order for the school's teaching and research to provide high quality, high value services.


Third, the characteristics of the library staff continuing education

(A) universal
Continuing education to achieve, and infiltration in the majority of the daily work of librarians, has a broad mass base, reflecting the requirements of the common psychological librarian, played the majority of librarians to maintain and promote the common progress of the role, with strong cohesion.

(B) practical
This is a continuing education in content and form showing the external characteristics, in its implementation of the long product development process Xiangyan made. Despite the many educational levels and forms of change, but it has retained the useful features .

(C) the difference
"Vary" is a distinctive feature of continuing education is one. No matter what type of continuing education, all levels of education, content, time on the show by some of their jobs, working conditions and their own academic level and professional the constraints, with strong differences.

(D) Flexibility
Continuing education means, methods, content and methods to continue the education process is to achieve the necessary steps, but not the ultimate goal, therefore, in the process of its implementation can take a variety of access opportunities for continuing education, and informal in some forms and methods, revealing strong flexibility.


Fourth, the continuing education of librarians main content

(A) expand their knowledge
Information age librarian's knowledge structure should be diversified dynamic knowledge system, not only to master the LIS knowledge, relevant knowledge and modern information technology, but also with the sense of innovation and social practice, including observation, thinking , common sense, imagination, and interpersonal communication skills, coordination, etc., the library staff continuing education, can not be confined to narrow areas of expertise and pure knowledge of the subjects of education, should pay attention to the breadth of knowledge and ability, should strengthen the management, psychology, sociology, public relations, predictions, theories of knowledge and methodology of scientific research ethics and moral education, in order to give full play to their talents.

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Continuing education should be based on innovation, technology development trend of the response to the information age, librarians must adhere to learn new LIS disciplines and knowledge of computer networks, adapted from information processing to knowledge management, intelligent changes so that the content of continuing education has oriented and forward-looking nature, and comprehensively improve the librarian's practical ability to update education is the continuing education of librarians in an important sense of the times.

(C) additional non-LIS professional knowledge
As professional librarians serving a different basis, to fill a vacancy content of continuing education are not the same which just go to work in recent years, the LIS graduates, the general lack of non-LIS professional expertise (knowledge of key disciplines, especially the school, so should be based on actual operational needs, through training, self-study approach to non-LIS expertise filled the contrary, non-LIS graduates serving librarians, should be used for training and education, etc. filled LIS expertise. gradually developing a "complex" information management personnel, and gradually bring up the "subject expert" integrated information management professionals.


Fifth, librarians main form of continuing education

(A) Short Course
Continuing education short courses in education is a short time, high level, new content, a wide range of modern means of education as a high level of education, mainly adapted to the senior management and operational staff. So that they can access anywhere, anytime to domestic and foreign industry's newest, most cutting-edge developments. This short course is also known as workshops, you can take a local, remote or distance learning methods. So that they have a broad space for academic discussion, exchange of practical experience, drive and innovation in the industry academic environment, and guide the academic direction for strengthening disciplines, improve service quality, close to the world advanced level, to master the advanced management experience in technology and services provide the basis for .20 Since the 1990s, Institute of Library and Information Center and other organizations, held a variety of short courses over a hundred period, continuing education of professionals about 5,000 people for the training of the industry's high-level continuing education of librarians made outstanding contributions.

(B) the focus of class
There are training classes focus future work ability and non graduates, but the librarian has a certain length of service as the main cultivation, improve the professional quality of its effective way of one key can be taken off-site training classes or local education, the time ranging from months to years, such as in some libraries, with a considerable number of non graduate, the young backbone, they have a strong sense of responsibility, dedication, and considerable practical work experience, to carry out important work the library, but the lack of systematic knowledge and deep theoretical knowledge of education through a focused, systematic professional learning, not only from theory to improve their professional standards, and enable them to more proficient in business skills so that they quickly become the backbone of the business from the 1980s, the Shanghai Branch of Nanjing Institute of Politics held dozens of military academies and cultural backbone of the library staff training, for those non graduate Library staff created a good opportunity for continuing education.

(C) the practice of class
Practical classes deal mainly with the backbone of the library business, enabling them to within a certain time and space have more opportunities to practice a high level of opportunities to get the job of the professional knowledge to create the backbone of a group of professional leaders, lay the foundation for business team building, improving and promoting the academic librarians, business level and quality of construction and development, such as: Library catalog group, intelligence group of librarians has been to the National Defense University Library, Air Force Command College Library Hall, Shanghai Branch of Nanjing Institute of Politics study and practice of drawing lines, get a lot of work experience and methods, so readers Library services and the digitization of primary resources have been greatly improved and progress, the museum also librarian professional qualities and skills in varying degrees of increase has proved that this "short", "flat", "fast" is the continuing education of librarians in general to improve the professional quality and skill of the most realistic approach.


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