Editorial

Maxine Rochester

Different cultural attitudes to knowledge: librarianship in New Zealand embraces biculturalism

Rowena Cullen
Abstract Bicultural policies in New Zealand/Aotearoa focus on the recognition of different cultural values and the sharing of power between two peoples - the indigenous Maori, and the immigrant Europeans. The paper discusses the different cultural attitudes to knowledge and information of the Maori and looks at some of the implication of biculturalism for library practice. The role of LIS education in this process is discussed...

Summary of reading the future for library and information services education and practice

Abstract Kay Poustie, chair of the Board of Education, presented an overview of the current work of the Board, and priorities and strategic development for 1997.

Teacher-Librarian Education for the 21st Century, Ross Todd and Julie Dow... ; Soapbox Session: Generic Transferable Skills, Jan Partridge...Collaboration, Paul Lupton...Benchmarking, Kerry Smith...RPL Assessment Strategies, Roberta Talbot... ; The Supporting Practitioner and the Workplace Practicum, Jenny McCarthy... ; Research Notes: Learning Through Unpaid Work Placements and Experience, Claire O'Conor... ; Attitudes of School Leavers Towards Libraries, Paul Genoni...

Educating teacher-librarians for the 21st Century

Julie Dow and Ross Todd
The outline of the draft discussion paper reprinted with the authors permission.

Research and scholarship

Maxine Rochester
Abstract The carrying out of research and the publication of results, usually in journal articles, reflects and in turn enhances the practice of the discipline of library and information studies. Research involves systematic investigations according to disciplinary conventions, in order to discover new facts or principles. Scholarship involves the critical analysis of existing information and opinion and awareness of the latest published research. Universities expect their academics to be involved in applied research, particularly those working in academic libraries...

Education and Training Clearinghouse for the International Federation for Information and Documentations (FID/ET)

Abstract Education and Training Clearinghouse for the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID/ET) is now located in the Department of Inforamtion Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. The co-directors of the clearinghouse and co-editors of the ET newsletter are Dr Harry Bruce and Ms Joan Parker.

The work of the clearinghouse and the publication of the newsletter are, of course, a vital international link for those with an interest and involvement in the education and training of information and documentation professionals...

Education for Library and Information Services Section

Ian Rogers
Abstract Presidents report March 1997 ; Office bearers for 1997... ; Regulars at meetings... ; News highlights...

ALIA report of the chair of the Board of Education meeting 6-7 February 1997

Collette McCool
Introduction At my first meeting as chair of the Board it was a pleasure to welcome back both Jenny McCarthy and Julie Dow. Both were returned in the 1996 elections. Board members confirmed that the major foci over the next year will be: a proposed forum with educators and practitioners...; a consideration of issues of quality guarantee ; identification of education and training priorities for teacher-librarians ; revision of the Work level guidelines ; completion of the recognition of prior learning (RPL) strategy...

Book reviews

Ross Harvey
Education of Librarianship in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands 1996, Mary Ronnie with contributions from John Evans and Melvyn D Rainey, Mansell, London. (The Education of Library and Information Professional: An International Series) 228pp £50.00.
...Are there lessons in this book for the future? This is a question of some significance at the present point in time in New Zealand, with many changes about to occur in library education. The recent change from a post-graduate diploma to an MLIS as the basic professional qualification, the move of the certificate course to the Open Polytechnic, a possible undergraduate degree, competing courses based in Auckland, and the very recent appointment of a new Professor at Victoria University of Wellington mean that we will find out if Ronnie's themes will remain valid in the next decade, as they have for at least the last five decades.

Lyn Hay
Effective Training in the Education Workplace: A handbook 1995, Department for Education and Children's Services, Adelaide. 80pp softcover.
This handbook recommends a cyclical developmental process for school wishing to design and implement school-based training programs aimed at meeting the individual needs of a school community...The process of change and the characteristics of adult learning are also considered...This handboook would be a valueable addition to any school's professional resource collection.

Patricia Willard
Information Professionals in Australia: Expanding Horizons 1996, J Michael Brittain. Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University -Riverina, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. (CIS Research Report, Number 5) ISBN 0 949060 33 X $20.
...Overall the report is clearly presented. The literature review is thorough and the author's comments interesting. The description of the method mentioned input from information professionals however where this is involved in the discussion is not clear. An explicit flagging of this contribution, in the reviewer's view would have contributed to the richness of the picture which as emerged from the study. The report concludes with several sensible recommendations...

Kerry Tanner
Proceeding of the 1st Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, held at Longhirst Management and Training Centre, Longhirst Hall, Northumberland, England, 31 August to 4 September 1995, ed. Pat Wressell, Information North for the Dept of Information and Library Management, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne. [v] + 309pp. stlg45 ISBN 0 906 433 22 3.
On first examining these proceedings, my initial impression was that the publication with its thin card cover and spiral binding was considerably overpriced. However a detailed reading soon reversed this impression. The proceedings have been superbly edited by Pat Wressell. The forty papers in the collection (six keynote papers, 28 seminar papers and documentation for six poster sessions) are of a uniformly high calibre...I look forward to another valuable review of the state-of-the-art in this important field.