Continuing Education and Staff Development Committee

Purpose:    To promote an ongoing continuing education program
for the region.

Duties:     1.  To collect and disseminate information on
continuing education activities for library personnel throughout
the region.
            2.  To recommend topics for continuing education
programs sponsored through SELA.
            3.  To serve as liaison between SELA and CLENE
(nation-wide continuing education network).
            4.  To work with the Executive Board and the
Headquarters staff in the following areas:
                a.  developing a regional plan for continuing
education and staff development
                b.  reviewing and approving applications for
programs in this field conducted through SELA (See Appendix C.
Continuing Education Programs Guidelines).
                c.  conducting needs assessment surveys for
designing continuing education programs.
            5.  To work with the Library Education Section in
areas of mutual concern.

History:
            It was suggested to the Executive Board by the
Headquarters staff that policies related to association sponsored
workshops were needed in June 1977.  There were two workshops in
the planning stages at that time and questions had arisen about
how the income should be handled.  An ad hoc committee was
appointed to develop a written policy as to SELA's role in
continuing education and to identify areas which might need   
study.  It became a Standing Committee in 1979.  This committee
has developed guidelines and an application form for approval of
proposed programs, made a survey of regional programs being
conducted, and is responsible for SELA's membership in CLENE.