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IFLA Section on Education and Training (SET) Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
Over the past few decades, the Section for Education and Training (SET) has supported and enhanced library and information science (LIS) education and training based on research and professional practice on an international scale to encourage collaboration and development across the profession.
In 2014, SET will be celebrating its 40th anniversary in two parts:
1) An off-site summit as part of the 2014 IFLA World Library and Information Conference in Lyon
2) A 40th anniversary book to be published in 2015 featuring historical chapters and insights into the future of LIS education and training
The summit will be a special one-day off-site session at the 2014 IFLA conference and will address SET’s history and future by creating a collaborative forum for critical discussion. Components of the event includes panels, keynotes, and Ignite sessions.
The goal of the anniversary book will be to examine the past 40 years of SET’s history and its role in LIS education and training as well as to make future projections of LIS education and training in 2050. The book will include both historical chapters examining lessons learned over the past 40 years as well as position papers addressing key issues of LIS education and training. Some potential thematic issues the book will address are the integration of hands-on knowledge, reputation of the LIS profession, how the library of the future might look and how to prepare LIS students for it, and future research in LIS.
In conjunction with the summit, SET will celebrate its 40th anniversary by bridging the past to the future in the continual support of LIS education and training. For more information on SET’s history, check out Ole Harbo and Russell Bowden’s publication of the organization from 1974 to 2003 at: http://www.ifla.org/publications/development-of-the-profession-a-history-of-the-ifla-section-for-education-training-from.
More details regarding the celebration activities are forthcoming (see http://www.ifla.org/set). For more information, please contact Clara Chu, cmchu @ uncg.edu, or Michael Seadle, seadle @ ibi.hu-berlin.de.