The Advisory Committee for the national voluntary Library Support Staff Certification program (LSSCP) met all day January 22 at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. During Midwinter Meeting, ALA members and ALA Councilors will have an opportunity to learn about the program, ask questions, and provide input. The ALA Open Forum Briefing document is now available on the project’s website.
It is our hope the program will be approved by the ALA Executive Board at the ALA Annual Conference in July 2009, with field tests to begin in August 2009 and full program implementation by January 2010. You may learn more about the program and view project documents – such as the Business Plan – at the LSSCP project’s website. Your comments about the program may be made to the LSSCP blog.
Let me just add that I’m also working on this project. It’s really exciting. We have a a great Adviosry Committee (which Diana is on)and we are really moving fast. I would love to hear from any of you after you have read the Briefing Document that Diana sent the link for.
Nancy
I think this is a great program, and wanted to let the Colorado Library community know that CLiC intends to do what we can to help Library staff work towards certification. We’re looking forward to the program moving into production! Valerie