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Education Committee

Education Committee Meetings:
16 January 2007 | 13 February 2007

Members of Education Committee 2006/7

Mary Burke, School of Information and Library Studies, UCD
Joe Donnelly, Judges’ Library, Dublin
Beatrice Doran, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Deirdre Ellis-King, Dublin City Libraries (Chair)
Mary Murphy, Meath County Library
Áine O’Connor, Arup Consulting Engineers, Dublin
Marjory Sliney, Fingal County Libraries (Secretary)
Teresa Walsh, South Dublin County Libraries

Role of Education Committee

Standards

• To maintain standards of professional education within Ireland and to work towards the continual raising of standards of professional education in line with best practice internationally;
• To extend professional recognition to relevant academic courses of study provided within Ireland by offering qualified candidates, subject to criteria determined by the Association in consultation with the relevant awarding Body, the opportunity to apply for professional recognition leading to Associateship of the Library Association of Ireland, (ALAI );
• To monitor, and in consultation with international sister professional associations, determine the acceptability of courses of academic study undertaken in other countries for purposes of professional recognition by the LAI;

Continuing Professional Education

• To facilitate and enable research based on continuing professional education and development through a candidature process leading to Fellowship of the Library Association of Ireland (FLAI);
• To determine and review regulations governing Associateship of the Library Association of Ireland (ALAI) and Fellowship of the Library Association of Ireland (FLAI);
• To oversee and ensure supervision where necessary, in co-operation with the employing body, of the professional development work practice of candidate applicants for Associateship of the Library Association of Ireland;
• To support, supervise, and examine the research thesis submitted by candidate applicants for Fellowship of the LAI;
• To maintain confidential records of application, assessment and recommendation in respect of ALAI and FLAI;

Continuing Professional Development

• To examine and review existing curriculum content offered within currently recognised academic courses of study in Ireland leading to relevant awards;
• To determine future curricular content needs in line with the requirements of the profession and to contribute towards the development of curricular content through consultative measures with the awarding body;
• To promote and encourage individual professional development particularly within a framework of professional recognition offered by the LAI;
• To consider the potential for the LAI to enable a Higher Professional Award which would contribute to the status of the profession and recognise the professional achievements and distinction of its members.

Policy Paper on Continuing Professional Development

ASSOCIATESHIP (A.L.A.I. (Associate of the Library Association of Ireland))

A scheme of Associateship was instituted in 1989 to give recognition to the professional status of librarianship. Associateship is open to those members who hold a recognised professional qualification and who meet other criteria as laid down by the LAI.

Downloads:
Associateship of the Library Association of Ireland (ALAI) ( PDF, 246kb)
Regulations governing the scheme of Associateship ( MS Word, 53.5kb).
List of Qualifications recognised for purposes of Associateship of the LAI ( MS Word, 39kb).
Application for Election to the register of Associates ( MS Word, 44.5kb).

A Professional register, listing those members who hold an A.L.A.I. is published before the Annual General Meeting each year.

Continuing Professional Development

Certificates of Course Attendance
Guidelines for Course Organisers

1. Courses for which Certificates of Attendance are issued must have been submitted and pre-approved three months in advance of their meeting and other requirements of the Education Committee.

2. Courses must be for a minimum duration of a half day.

3. Course documentation must provide the following:-

• Course Objectives
• Brief description of content
• Indicate the intended level of participant interest and relevance
• Outline of expected learning outcomes

4. Copies of all course documentation must be retained by organising Group / Section of LAI in a proper and retrievable manner for appropriate purposes to include CPD (Continuing Professional Development) validation purposes of the LAI

5. A Register of all course documentation and record of Attendees must be maintained by Organising Group / Section of LAI

6. Certificates of attendance as required by the Education Committee will be issued to Participants subject to the following:

- Certificates should be issued only to those who attend for full course duration.

- A record of Certification must be completed and retained by authorised officer/s of the organising Group / Section of the LAI.

This record will detail:

• Course Title
• Date held
• Course Duration
• Name of Participant
• Date on which Certificate was issued
• Name of person signing on behalf of LAI
• Name and signature of person responsible for recording details
• Ref no.- unique course identifying number, year and participant number (Format should be e.g. HSLG1/2006/54)

Proposal to run LAI- approved CPD course ( MS Word, 83kb).