Library and Information Professions and Education Renewal

主要研究活动由四个专门小组进行：(1)教育小组，确定LIS教育项目、教师和学生的现状；(2)公共图书馆小组，确定公共图书馆人员所需的技能和知识以及获取和维护这些技能和知识的方法；(3)学术图书馆小组，确定了学术图书馆人员所需的技能和知识以及获取和维护这些技能和知识的方法；(4)学校图书馆馆员或学校媒体专家的理想形象及其实现途径。我们每年都会举办专题讨论会，与图书馆领域的利益相关者分享我们的研究计划和发现，并试图从他们那里得到反馈。此外，我们还举办了9场论坛：我们邀请了来自韩国、中国、台湾、泰国和新加坡的5位知名演讲者，与我们分享他们国家的美国教育趋势和问题。本课题的主要发现有：(1)日本的大学英语教育50年来没有变化，与海外大学英语教育的差距不断扩大；(2)图书馆员教育的课程和内容没有很好地规范，也没有与高等教育课程相结合，获得图书馆员资格的人很少进入图书馆市场；(3)寻求新的教育领域，包括IT技能和用户行为；(4)尽管专职图书馆员的就业机会相当有限，但仍有许多人寻求获得图书馆员资格教育，这长期阻碍了日本图书馆员教育的更新。根据这些发现，提出以下建议：(1)建立证书考试，使学生能够自我评价他们在LIS教育中学到的知识，并获得更好的就业机会；(2)引入新的信息专业教育标准课程。

Main research activities have been conducted by four special teams : (1)education group which identified current situation of LIS education programs, instructors, and students ; (2)public library group which identified skills and knowledge required by public librarians and ways of acquiring and maintaining them ; (3)academic library group which identified skills and knowledge required by academic librarians and ways of acquiring and maintaining them ; and (4)school library which developed an ideal images of school librarians or school media specialists and ways of attaining them.We held symposia every year to share our study plans and findings with stakeholders in the library field, and tried to get feedback from them. In addition, we held nine forums : we invited five recognized speakers from Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Singapore to share with us trends and issues of LIS education in their countries.The major findings of this project were : (1)Japanese LIS education remains unchanged for 50 years, and the gap with overseas LIS education has ever been increasing ; (2)Curriculum and contents of LIS education are not well standardized nor integrated into higher education programs and very few people who obtain librarian's qualification get employed in library markets ; (3)New areas of education including IT skills and user behavior are sought for ; and (4)Many people seek to obtain LIS education for qualification of librarians even though employment opportunity for full-time librarians are quite limited, which has hindered LIS education renewal in Japan for a long time.These findings lead to make following proposals :(1)Establish a certificate examination for students to be able to self-evaluate what they learned through LIS education and to obtain better employment opportunities ; and(2)Introduce a new standard curriculum for information professional education.