SET Bulletin Vol. 14, No. 2 July 2013 IFLA Section on Education & Training ISSN 1450-0647 In this Issue: Conference Reports p. 16 Message from the Editor p. 1 New Books p. 19 Conference Calendar p. 26 SET Spotlight Letter from the Chair p. 2 Contact the Section p. 3 Message from the Editor SET News p. 4 Dear colleagues, Who‘s Who: SET SC Member Profiles p. 6 We are looking forward to seeing you in Singapore for the 79th World Library and Information Congress 17–23 August 2013! There you will meet our winners of the IFLA LIS Student Paper Award 2013: Tamara Rhodes from the School of Library and Information Sciences, at North Carolina Central University, USA as first placed winner, and Elina Karioja, Student of Oulu University of Applied Sciences, School of Business and Information Management, Finland, as second placed winner. Please find more information on pages 13–14 and 15–16. There is also an updated list of incoming, re-elected, remaining and outgoing SET SC members, including the candidates for Looking forward to seeing you at the corresponding membership to be elected in the 79th IFLA Singapore SC business meeting, p. 6–7. World Library and Information Congress Please find a timetable of all SET and SET- in Singapore, 17–23 August 2013! related events during the upcoming IFLA Congress on p. 5–6. LIS Education & Training Worldwide The articles on LIS Education and Training coming from Norway, South Carolina, USA, Finally a Doctoral programme in LIS is and Russia show a wide range of various established in Norway p. 8 examples of LIS ET activities from all over the Summer Camp Read-a-Rama at the world. University of South Carolina p. 9 After eight years serving as SET Bulletin IFLAcamp Library Creative Laboratory in editor, partly together with LIS students from Kaliningrad, Russia p. 10 the Berlin School of Library and Information Librarian’s Job Satisfaction: Sience, Germany, it is time to say good-buye ―I am happy?‖ p. 11 and to hand over the job to a new editor and to decide a new format for the SET Bulletin. I IFLA News p. 13 want to thank all contributors, literature LIS News worldwide p. 14 reviewers, friendly feedback giving readers and helpful colleagues, particularly Terry Weech, Who‘s Who: LIS‘ New Generation p. 15 who helped with so much patience to make the SET Bulletin a useful, informative and good to read newsletter. Petra Hauke Impressum The SET-Bulletin is published twice a year in January and July. Editor Dr. Petra Hauke, Berlin School for Library and Information Science (BSLIS) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 26, D-10099 Berlin, Germany, Fax: ++49 30 74070216, e-mail: [email protected]. Latest Revision: 17th July 2013 – Copyright © International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, www.ifla.org, SET-Bulletin online: www.ifla.org/en/set IFLA SET Bulletin | Volume 14 | Issue No 2| July 2013 | p. 1 SET Spotlight Section on Education & Training Spotlight It is recommended that the new Standing Letter from the Chair Committee (SC) is given the chance to elect its new Officers (Chairs and Secretaries) and Information Coordinator for the term 2013– 2015 during the Section's first SC meeting on Saturday 17 August 2013 in Singapore. Although the new Officers (and new SC members) do not take up office until the end Clara M. Chu of the Congress, by identifying them during Dear Colleagues, the first SC meeting, they may participate in Greetings and Thank you! I write in anticipation relevant meetings during the Congress, and of our next annual conference (79th IFLA also take advantage of meeting with General Conference and Assembly) and the outgoing counterparts for an efficient opportunity to see many of you and to work handover of information. The new SC will together in Singapore. This is also one of those comprise on-going members plus the years with endings and beginnings due to the incoming (new) SC members, but not those two-year period that marks a ―new IFLA‖ where whose term ends in 2013. there is a new President and Governing Board, The following themes continue to be applicable and hence, new Standing Committees (SC). to describe our work: Some of us on SET‘s SC will be stepping down because our term is ending (Chuanfu Chen, Collaboration and interchange Barbara I. Dewey, Tatiana Kouznetsova, Agnese Perrone) or in the case of our Our conference programs in Singapore will all Secretary Kerry Smith, she has taken be jointly-sponsored sessions either with the retirement and has decided to step down early. Section on Library Services to Multicultural Some of us are completing our terms and Populations and the Indigenous Matters stepping into new roles, S.B. Ghosh and Co- Special Interest Group, the Section on Chair Graham Matthews will continue as Continuing Professional Development and Corresponding Members; SET Bulletin Editor Workplace Learning, or the Section on Petra Hauke will continue as Corresponding Statistics and Evaluation. We are sponsoring a Member and serve as SC member of the satellite conference, the Workshop on Global Section on Library Theory and Research; and I Collaboration in Information Schools, with the will serve as Chair of Division IV – Support for Consortium of iSchools Asia Pacific the Professions (also on Professional www.cisap.asia/index.htm at Nanyang Committee and Governing Board) and Technological University on the 15 August continue as a SET SC member. Corresponding 2013 (www.cisap.asia/IFLA2013/). Nanyang Member Joumana Boustany is finishing her will also be hosting The Future of LIS term, while Esin Sultan Oguz is continuing on a Education in Developing Countries: The Road second term as a Corresponding Member. Ahead, a satellite meeting of the LIS Education Ismail Abdullahi, Convenor of the LIS in Developing Countries SIG on 14 August. Education in Developing Countries SIG, will Thank you to Kerry for chairing the 2013 IFLA start a new term as a Corresponding Member. Conference Program Committee. A heart felt thank you for your service. Nine SC members will provide continuity The Professional Committee has reviewed the as well as Mai Põldaas, Maria Witt and I who report from the E-Learning Special Interest will serve for a second term on SET SC. We Group (SIG), convened by Gillian Hallam, and will be joined by nine new SET SC members: accepts the SIG‘s review that it has fulfilled its Valentina Brezhneva, Susmita Chakraborty, purpose and ceased to exist in 2012. Thank Kathleen DeLong, Judith J. Field, Primoz you to Gill for her leadership in this endeavor. Juznic, Seamus Ross, Suzanne Samir, Lisa D. Travis, and Dongrong Zhang. As described in Connecting theory and practice the Procedure for election of new Officers and Information Coordinator, August 2013 SET has two IFLA-funded projects that www.ifla.org/officers-corner/election- connect theory and practice. The International procedure: Internship Survey is collecting data on an ongoing basis because it has been a challenge IFLA SET Bulletin | Volume 14| Issue No 2 | July 2013| p. 2 SET Spotlight to obtain a complete list of all LIS education new editor. Thank you to Petra for her many programs and an accurate email contact. It is years as Editor and willingness to assist in the for this reason that beside a web-based data transition to a new editor. Also, thank you to resource of internship guidelines and Agnese who has served as Web Manager, and expectations of LIS programs around the world Gill as Information Officer. that will inform practice and will allow for comparative research, a list of the compiled Contact the Section LIS education programs and their email www.ifla.org/en/set addresses will be made available. Co-Chair The preparation for SET‘s 40th anniversary to Clara M. Chu, Chair and Professor culminate in Lyon at the 2014 IFLA conference Department of Library & Information Studies is underway. Through a summit meeting and a University of North Carolina at Greensboro book publication we will examine the past 40 349C Curry Building years of SET‘s role in LIS Education and LIS POBox 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, education in general, and illuminate both the USA future of SET and LIS education. Please Tel: +(1)(336)3343477, Fax: +(1)(366)3345060 contact Michael Seadle at [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] berlin.de and me at [email protected] with Co-Chair your ideas and if you wish to volunteer. Graham Matthews, Professor Department of Information Science We will be examining ―What of LIS education Loughborough University worldwide?,‖ which is the question I have been Loughborough, United Kingdom contemplating in the last few letters from the Tel: +(44)(1509)223058 Chair. An answer is found by examining for Fax: +(44)(1509)223053 what we are preparing our students, to which e-mail: [email protected] Dave Lankes, Syracuse University, states: Secretary Kerry Smith, Associate Professor and Head Librarianship is not a set of skills to be Department of Information Studies learned, or a set of degrees to be mastered. Curtin University of Technology Librarianship is a conversation that has Perth, Western Australia taken place over millennia. It is a Tel: (+61)(8)92667217, Fax: (+61)(8)9266315 conversation that we must all be a part of or e-mail: [email protected] it will die. It will not die from defunding, Information Coordinator Google, and whether we make the transition Gillian Hallam, Associate Professor to RDA. It will die if librarians forget they Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have an obligation to constantly reinvent GPO Box 2434, 4001 Brisbane, Australia ourselves, imagine a better future, or stay Tel.