FY2003 Activity Progress Report of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Education Program (as of October 15, 2003)

1. Meetings

(1) 1st Ad-Hoc Committee meeting. June 25, 2003 (Omiya Sonic City)

• Confirmed the activity plan and schedule
• Agreed on setting up Education Program Working Group to progress a discussion

(2) 1st meeting of the Education Program Working Group. July 15, 2003 (Kyoto University Library)

• Introduced educational programs in the member's libraries and discussed them freely.
• Agreed on setting up a mailing list and an individual issue should be discussed on the mailing list.

2. Activity Overview

(1) The main issues discussed on the mailing list (opened on July 4 and 111 messages were sent as of October 17)

(a) Cooperation and coordination with the education programs of the National Institute of Informatics (NII)

• Requested the following to NII for the new education programs in 2003
  
• Education program for staffs teaching scholarly information literacy
  

  Requested (1) setting up a place for discussion to get a common understanding about how to advance future education of scholarly information literacy, (2) reflecting the fact that paper-based information literacy will be need as well as IT literacy for the time being, and (3) considering future directions covering a wide range of literacy including information retrieval, processing, and presentation alongside cooperation with the Taskforce on Electronic Journals.

• Education program for staffs who administer and operate their scholarly portals
  

  Requested (1)including strategies to get campus collaboration for setting up and operating a portal effectively and (2) defining a role expected by universities after the program, and requirements and qualifications for participation

• Comments to the NII Education Program after 2004

  There are the following comments:
  

  (1) It is necessary to adjust the contents of the education programs on network administration based on the library's needs;

  (2) It is necessary to introduce and expand e-learning effectively;

  (3) We hope that NII continues to pay the traveling expense for the education programs;

  (4) We hope that the NACSIS-CAT and NACSIS-ILL systems will be updated with user-friendly interfaces and operationality so that we can acquire how to operate them by ourselves without any education and training courses;

  (5) It is necessary for NII to provide a service to collect and introduce reference resources on education and training including the cases of teaching assistance in university libraries and teaching materials.

(b) Holding the Workshop on Global ILL Framework (GIF) and Electronic Document Delivery System within this fiscal year. (In response to the decision made in the Board meeting after the 50th General Assembly.)

• Making a program of the workshop. (Planning to hold the workshop in Eastern and Western Japan)
  

  Holding the workshop with the consultation and cooperation with the GIF Project Team.

(c) Planning the new JANUL education programs

Some themes coming up are as follows:

• Training digital librarians
• Training subject and reference librarians and collection making
• Training course on library management for university librarians, associate university librarians and directors of the library divisions
• Joint training courses with foreign librarians

(d) Reconsidering the holding body of the education programs and the contents of the programs

(e) Issues on the education programs

• Regret about the failure to train and secure persons who have a vision and/or persons of action in the library world.
• Necessity to create a career path of librarian by design corresponding to the library needs.
• Making proper use of education programs, self-development, OJTs and so on to develop ability of staff after employment.
  "The basis of skill developments for working member of society is a self-development doing independently."
• Clarifying the requirements for job applicants at recruitment.
• Resolving the difference of environment for skill developments among libraries.
• Resolving the difference between the theory of library science and daily library works.

(f) Setting up the website (in preparation).

• Introducing the Committee's activities
• Providing the schedules for the education programs.

The members of the Working Group

Manager	Koichi Ohno	Associate University Librarian, Kyoto University Library
Submanager	Masayoshi Ishii	Director, Information processing and Management Division, Kobe University Library
Member	Shoichiro Sawa	Chief, General Affairs Section, Shiga University Library)
	Shinpei Ogawa	Senior Specialist, General Affairs Division, Kyoto University Library
	Yoshinori Ohkubo	Chief, Interlibrary Loan Section, Kyoto Institute of Technology Library
	Naoki Ohnishi	Senior specialist, Information Services Division, Osaka University Library
	Keita Goto	Chief, Information Services Section, Nara Women's University Library