There was an effort in the 1970s ..CLENE..the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange...but that faded out. Good to rethink this in view of the torrent of activities today with little broad context.
There are some documents in ERIC but for some reason it is not loading today.
This article written when Dr. Stone died gives some details.
"In Appreciation of Betty Stone, Continuing Education Advocate."
Jana Varlejs, Blanche Woolls and Brooke Sheldon
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science
Vol. 44, No. 1 (Winter, 2003), pp. 69-71 (3 pages)
ERIC is back up and so much there about CLENE. Totally forgotten now.
It was so huge at the time...
CLENE: Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Proceedings (Second CLENE Assembly, July 16-17, 1976).
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Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange, Washington, DC. – 1976
This meeting was designed to serve as an up-to-date learning resource for those involved in library education and as a centralized medium for the demonstration of projects and activities. Included in the report are discussions on (1) Principles of Adult Education Programming, (2) Needs Assessment Techniques, (3) Designing Education Plans
Thanks for reminding us about CLENE. I recall hearing about it when in library school but never in any other way "on the job" in the various libraries I've worked in. The terminology itself has shifted some, of course--from "continuing education" to what ALA, ACRL, and other associations refer to as "professional development" through their myriad offerings. The lack of a centralized hub or resource for demonstration projects and activities, as CLENE was envisioned to be originally, is a large gap for us. --Craig
There was some effort by ALA to register CEUs but I don't think it connected to employers in a meaningful way. And w/o that it didn't seem to go anywhere. For a long time there would be a notation that a program had some CEU equivalent that I guess could be recorded. Some fields require CEU for recertification but librarianship isn't nationally organized that way. There was a lot of energy expended on this and I can't find any summation of how it faded.
There was an effort in the 1970s ..CLENE..the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange...but that faded out. Good to rethink this in view of the torrent of activities today with little broad context.
There are some documents in ERIC but for some reason it is not loading today.
This article written when Dr. Stone died gives some details.
"In Appreciation of Betty Stone, Continuing Education Advocate."
Jana Varlejs, Blanche Woolls and Brooke Sheldon
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science
Vol. 44, No. 1 (Winter, 2003), pp. 69-71 (3 pages)
ERIC is back up and so much there about CLENE. Totally forgotten now.
It was so huge at the time...
CLENE: Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Proceedings (Second CLENE Assembly, July 16-17, 1976).
PDF on ERICDownload full text
Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange, Washington, DC. – 1976
This meeting was designed to serve as an up-to-date learning resource for those involved in library education and as a centralized medium for the demonstration of projects and activities. Included in the report are discussions on (1) Principles of Adult Education Programming, (2) Needs Assessment Techniques, (3) Designing Education Plans
https://eric.ed.gov/?q=CLENE
Thanks for reminding us about CLENE. I recall hearing about it when in library school but never in any other way "on the job" in the various libraries I've worked in. The terminology itself has shifted some, of course--from "continuing education" to what ALA, ACRL, and other associations refer to as "professional development" through their myriad offerings. The lack of a centralized hub or resource for demonstration projects and activities, as CLENE was envisioned to be originally, is a large gap for us. --Craig
There was some effort by ALA to register CEUs but I don't think it connected to employers in a meaningful way. And w/o that it didn't seem to go anywhere. For a long time there would be a notation that a program had some CEU equivalent that I guess could be recorded. Some fields require CEU for recertification but librarianship isn't nationally organized that way. There was a lot of energy expended on this and I can't find any summation of how it faded.