APLA Continuing Education Committee Report

 

Committee Members: Erin Alcock (convener), Heather Berringer, Su Cleyle, Michael Colborne, Jane Duffy, Mary Landry, Trish Leblanc, Donald Moses

 

The Continuing Education committee exists to develop and promote professional development sessions from the Atlantic region to be offered nationally via the Partnership’s Education Institute. The convener of this committee also sits on the Partnership’s National Continuing Education Committee providing a link both too and from the region.

 

For the 08/09 year our committee helped to foster and promote five sessions on a wide range of topics including website usability, roving reference, digital collections, genealogy and peer review. We’d like to thank our speakers for taking the time to put together such useful and relevant sessions.

 

There were many changes affecting our committee this past year including the demise of the print Education Institute catalogue and the development of a new APLA website, both influencing the ways in which we advertise and promote sessions. We look forward, in the coming year, to an increased suite of options for taking part in EI sessions, including EI-To-GO, in addition to the work of the certification committee of the Partnership and the results of their pilot project in Alberta.

The committee would be glad to hear from all APLA members on topics of interest for future Education Institute sessions.

 

A big thanks, as well, to the Queen Elizabeth II Library at Memorial University for covering the cost of five teleconference sessions.