Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:48:35 -0800
From: Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Subject: Continuing Education Needs Survey

As part of the LC Action Plan on Bibliographic Control of Web
Resources http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.pdf,
an ALCTS Task Force on Continuing Education for Catalogers (Action
Item 5.3) has been charged to prepare a model curriculum for continuing
education in cataloging of e-resources and metadata. We are further
charged to address a variety of metadata types; interoperability issues;
and general principles,  practices and workflows for metadata projects.
We are also charged to recommend specific changes and additions to
existing continuing education programs, lay out a plan for course
content and sequence, and describe an appropriate delivery system for
this curriculum.

To assist us in making recommendations of use to our target audience, we
have created a brief survey that we invite all cataloging practitioners
to complete:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~chixson/cetf/continedsurvey2.html
Summary results of the survey can be made available to the cataloging
community, if there is interest.

Thank you for your interest and help.

Carol Hixson
Head, Catalog Dept.
University of Oregon
Chair, ALCTS CE Task Force (Action Item 5.3)
chixson@oregon.uoregon.edu
(541) 346-3064