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This workshop in Florence, March 2005 focuses on the need for international cooperation to improve curriculum design in digital library education. It delves into the skills required by digital librarians, their educational needs, and the significance of quality assurance in this field. The event emphasizes the importance of stakeholders' engagement and motivates educators to inspire students in digital library studies.
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International Workshop Digital Library Education:~ reflection. International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Objectives:~ • Realise international co-operation with all stakeholders on curricula design; • Start a co-operative program of quality assurance International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Realise • International • Co-operation • Stakeholders International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Curriculum design • Digital Librarians~ • who are they? • What skills do they need? • How can they be educated? International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Who are they? • Digital doctors. • Flexible, adaptable,innovative • willing to learn International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Who are they? • people • with high levels of skills and specialisms; • who are entrepreneurial; outgoing; willing to take risks; • who can manage projects; work quickly and approximately and live in the messy world of the digital, where structural processes and procedures are often irrelevant. International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
What skills do they need? • Not yet prepared; lack advanced media literacy International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
How can they beeducated? • At all levels and all modes • In which discipline? • Mars/Venus • Additional or integrated into traditional • coaching • real life scenarios • multi lingual, cross cultural learning • International International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
is the education we offer adequate? International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Quality Assurance • imperative • a real barrier to mobility and international co-operation. International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Implementation • LIS has been not been a leader, but a follower in digital libraries • Educators have a responsibility to motivate students who invest time and energy in learning International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Implementation • Engaging stakeholders with an investment in what will be learned and what will be done with that knowledge. International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005
Implementation International Workshop Digital Library Education Florence, March 2005