TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- SESSION 1. Continuing Education Planning: Individual and Institutional -- A Distance Independent/Open Learning Education Model For The Continuing Professional Education Of Librarians -- Continuing Professional Development And Flexible Information Workers: Problems And Opportunities -- Future Academic Library Skills: What Will They Be? -- SESSION 2a. Models to Cope with Growing Continuing Education Needs -- Hungarian CPE Efforts Intensified Through International Co-operation -- Users Training Programs Developed By The Brazilian University Libraries -- Constructs For Investigating Lack of Persistence In Experimental Distance Education: A Study Of Health Science Librarians -- SESSION 2b. Continuing Education Planning: Individual and Institutional -- The Changing Nature Of Continuing Education For The Individual: Will Libraries And Librarians Continue To Play A Role In Supporting Learners? -- On The Education Of Information Resources Management Professionals At High Level In China -- Closing The Information Technology Gap: Typical Training Concerns In A South African University Library In The 1990's -- SESSION 3. Models to Cope With Growing Continuing Education Needs -- LIS Educational Systems Within CMC (Computer Mediated Communication) -- Group Mentoring. : A First Experience In Continuing Education -- Facilitating Workplace Learning -- SESSION 4a. Training the Trainer -- Training Of Trainers And Professional Development: Estonian Prospective -- New Times - New Possibilities -- Librarians As Change Agents In The HE Community -- SESSION 4b. Measuring Continuing Education Needs -- Theory And Practice Of Law Librarianship Through Continuing Professional Education: The Nigerian Experience -- Continuing Education And Information Technology: A Study Of Content And Deliverables.

Differences Between Librarians And Library Directors In Their Perception Of Continuing Professional Education -- Information Technology Developments As A Factor In Determination Of Continuing Education Needs In Some Southern African Academic Libraries -- SESSION 5. Workshops -- Measuring Continuing Education Needs And Results Competency For The Twenty-First Century -- SESSION 6a. Continuing Education Planning: Individual and Institutional -- Personal Professional Development: Competencies For The Solo Librarian -- Growing With The Customer: Challenges To The Estonian Librarian In The 21st Century -- Planning Professional Excellence In Library And Information Organisations - A South African Perspective -- SESSION 6b. Models to Cope with Growing Continuing Education Needs -- LIS Professionals In The Networked Learning Environment -- Russian System Of Continuing Education In Transition -- Continuing LIS Professional Education Through Distance Mode: Prospects For India -- SESSION 7a. Models to Cope with Growing Continuing Education Needs -- The Internet And Continuing Professional Education -- The Impact Of National Training Reform And The Restructuring Of Industrial Awards On Staff Development In Australian Academic And State Libraries -- Distance Education As A New Possibility For Library And Information Science Education In Estonia -- SESSION 7b. Continuing Education Planning: Individual and Institutional -- Evaluation As A Human Development For Professionals In The Twenty-First Century -- A Brazilian Experience -- An Approach To Identifying Skills Within An Information Culture: The Application Of Information Policy To Information Cultures -- Continuing Education For Croatian Librarians: Needs And Opportunities -- SESSION 8a. Training the Trainer -- The Academic Librarian And Scholarship: A Vision For The Twenty-First Century.

Measuring Continuing Education Needs: Identifying Transferable Skills Through Mentoring -- Training The Trainer: A Perspective From The ALA / CLENE-RT' -- SESSION 8b. User Education: The Librarian as Educator -- Effectiveness Of An Academic Library As A Continuing Education Provider -- Applying Principles For Effective Staff Development To Large Urban Public Library Systems In Canada -- The New Role Of Librarians As Internet Trainers -- SESSION 9. User Education: The Librarian as Educator -- Information Exchange And Communication Between Researchers: The Specialised Librarian's Part In Scientific Research -- Information Skills Teaching In The Age Of The Electronic Library In The United Kingdom -- Libraries As Learning Organisations -- SESSION 10a. Continuing Education Planning: Individual and Institutional -- The Higher School Of Information Service In Prague -- Continuing Education Of Information Professionals In A Changing Environment: With Special Reference To Brazil -- The Library And Bibliometrics -- SESSION 10b. Continuing Education Planning: Individual and Institutional -- Polish Experiences In Continuing Education For Librarians -- Asian Institute For Education In Librarianship And Information Science: A Continuing Professional Development Proposal -- Librarians Continuing Education in the Libraries of Estonia -- Appendix A. Organising Committee -- Appendix B. Authors of the Papers.