[Publib] ALA-APA seeks course providers

[Michael Golrick]

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Michael A. Golrick

 

Head of Reference & Library Consultant

225/342.4917 [Note new phone number]

State Library of Louisiana

P.O. Box 131

Baton Rouge, LA 70821

 

mailto:mgolrick at slol.lib.la.us

http://www.state.lib.la.us/

 

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Contact: Jenifer Grady 

ALA-APA

312-280-2424

jgrady at ala.org 

NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
September 28, 2009

ALA-APA Now Accepting Course Proposals for Library Support Staff
Certification Program (LSSC) 

On October 1, 2009, ALA-APA will begin accepting applications from
education providers interested in offering courses for candidates in the
Library Support Staff Certificate Program, (LSSC). The LSSC is the first
national, voluntary certification program for library support staff.
Course providers may be organizations or individuals with the expertise,
training, and resources to offer courses online or face-to-face. The ten
competency sets for which courses are needed are in the areas of
foundations of library services, technology, communication and teamwork,
access services, adult readers advisory, cataloging and classification,
collection management, reference, supervision and management, and youth
services. 

Potential providers complete an application,
http://ala-apa.org/lsscp/courseapprovalapplication.doc, and submit a
course syllabus, a description of the course's teaching methods and
assessment plan, and the instructor's resume. The course must cover all
the competencies in a competency set. The fee to be considered for
approval is $100 each of the first and second courses submitted, and $50
per class for each additional course. 

Candidates will have at least a high school diploma or equivalent, and
have worked in a public or academic library for at least one year.
Candidates have the option of completing approved courses or submitting
online portfolios that demonstrate their achievement in six of ten
competency sets. 

The application will be evaluated by a committee of American Library
Association member volunteers using a rubric,
http://ala-apa.org/lsscp/courseevalrubric.doc. Reviews will be held
periodically throughout the year and ALA-APA will notify applicants of
their status. Approved courses will be publicized and available to all
LSSC candidates. Courses that are approved will maintain that status,
barring major changes, for four years.

Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the
LSSC Program is in a testing phase in five library organizations across
the United States. The program will begin accepting candidates in
January 2010. Based on survey information and other expressions of
interest, project staff estimates that at least 300 library support
staff will participate in the LSSC program in the next three years. 

The LSSC Program was approved by the American Library Association to be
an official certification of ALA in July 2009. More information about
the LSSCP is available online at http://www.ala-apa.org/lsscp. Please
direct questions to Jenifer Grady at jgrady at ala.org or 312-280-2424. The
program will be managed by the American Library Association-Allied
Professional Association.

ALA-APA: the Organization for the Advancement of Library Employees is a
service organization to the American Library Association and has as one
of its missions supporting salary improvement initiatives for library
workers. 

 

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