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CURRENT ISSUES - elective
Given the following resources are available to the candidate:
- Access to information and data sources about federal, state, and local legislation and the community and the populations served by the library.
The candidate is expected to:
- Identify social/political/economic issues that may affect the library, the populations it serves, or its services (see Politics and Networking)
- Develop recommendations based on the issues.
The criteria to judge the adequacy of the performances are:
- Data collected are relevant and useful.
- Recommendations are timely and targeted.
- Further exploration is conducted on issues of priority to the library.
- Operational plans and budgets accommodate the impact of relevant issues.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify major current issues in public library management.
- Identify how general political, economic or social trends related to the issues in their public library management context.
- Analyze an issue in depth, incorporating information gleaned from all relevant sources, and document how the issue could impact strategic planning, services, policies, resource allocation, or collection management as applicable.
- Develop and defend recommendations for how an issue might be addressed and resolved in a particular public library.
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WHY? Gloria C-D is working with a committee that is "plugging the weaknesses in library school training, e.g. budgeting. I am also interested in what APA is doing, because I believe that public librarian training should be standardized in some way, and certification would no doubt do it." |
