TrainingBibliomist Program, Ukraine

National Conference of Librarian Trainers

December 8, 2011

Sinaia, Romania

Training Infrastructure

• Bibliomist Program: In Ukraine since 2008

• 25 training centers & curriculum:

– National Training Center in Kyiv;– 24 regional training centers in Ukraine;– 3 required training modules developed and

offered to librarians;– 3 more training modules recently designed and

tested.

Training

• Training curriculum (3 modules/courses): – IT basics;– Internet as a library service;– Innovative services and fundraising.

• 3 more new modules developed & tested: intellectual freedom; web 2.0; advocacy

• Participants of the trainings are evaluated 3 times: at the beginning of their training, at the end of the training, and in half a year.

Training Program Update• The NTC trained 48 trainers and 25 coordinators in administration of training centers and the system of learning

• About 5,000 librarians have been trained in the framework of the 3 modules in Ukraine

• CPC PLMs held• 43 Bibliomist contests’ winners

became Library Leadership Program-II fellows.

• LLP-II fellows went to Poland to study the experience of libraries and implement library innovations & community development projects in Ukraine.

Trainers Needs and ToT

• conducted a survey of trainers to

understand their needs (March 2011)

• identified the need to create a web resource for exchange of materials (90% trainers)

• ToTs held to promote interactive forms of adult learning (February-April 2011)

TOTs (Work in Groups)

Ice breakers

Web Resource Regional Training Centers

• created at the initiative of RTC trainers and developed pro bono by the Crimean RTC

• Content generated by common efforts of trainers

• communication takes place in

an interactive form; consulting

of NTC and RTC trainers provided

http://bibliomist.org.ua/

Web Resource for Trainers

RTC Blogs

Online Platform for Distance Learning

Thank you very much for your attention!

Yaroslava Tytarenko

Capacity Development Coordinator

Bibliomist Program, IREX/Ukraine

ytytarenko@irex.ua