Handbook

Libraries and other cultural institutions worldwide play a unique role in delivering training, education and lifelong learning opportunities for their communities. This subject provides an introduction to the strategies and skills required to facilitate the effective design, dissemination and delivery of education and training programs within the information and cultural sectors. Marketing, advocacy and building practical funding partnerships are also examined in the context of effective program delivery. Students are encouraged to become reflective practitioners, employing the research and professional literature to inform their understanding of training and education in these sectors and as a lens for shaping practice.

• Placing learning in information and cultural institutions in context
• Standards, policy and practice
• Information and cultural professionals as learning facilitators
• Introduction to learning theories
• Program planning
• Identifying learning needs and the community served
• Program delivery strategies and methods
• Partnerships and collaboration
• Advocacy, funding and marketing programs