2016, 4-5 APRIL - TRAINING "ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES"

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..On...April..4 to 5, 2016, at the Scientific Library of Alecu Russo Balti State Univerity participant in the Project ERASMUS + Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education (CBNE) "Library Network Support Services” (LNSS): modernising libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff development and reforming library services (LNSS) was held ”English for Specific Purposes” training. Total number of trainees in ESP training were 33 university librarians.

The meeting was opened by Elena Harconita, Director of the Scientific Library, who mentioned that the university librarians from Balti benefited of several conferences and international trainings supported by well-known personalities of librarianship field : David Case, University of Ohio, USA; Grant Harris, Chief of the European Division at the Library of Congress, Professor Hermina Anghelescu at the Faculty of Library and Information Science at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

The knowledge gathered by librarians has always been applied to the users' service.

On April 4-5, 2016, a new opportunity supported by international trainers from Limerick Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland will enhance the professional knowledge and skills of USARB librarians.

esp training 2Greeting speech of USARB Rector Ion Gagim, referring to the Project, would like to mention the importance of the training, opening the University to Europe, specifying that the USARB Scientific Library is a modern library and visiting card of the institution. Academic librarians have always been open to everything new and their participation in this Project further enhances the status and role of the library institution in the community.

The program included 5 LNSS Curriculum Modules:Module 1: English for Specific purposes (Libraries, library terminology and library access); Module 2: Marketing skills for librarians: Theory and practice; Module 3: Essential management and transferable skills for library staff (such as IFLA, ISO, Congress Library, NISO; Information and cultivation of user research skills); Module 4: Information literacy and research skills; Module 5: Innovative online library services for 21st century librarians; Module 6: The Electronic Library; Module 7: Access to libraries and society for learners with special needs/disabilities; Module 8: Library Collection Development Policies.

esp training 4Trainers Jerald Cavanagh BSc Econ, MSc, MA, Institute Librarian, Limerick Institute of Technology; Padraig Kirby BA (Hons) HdipLIS MSc (LIS), Senior Library Assistant, Limerick Institute of Technology outlined the objectives of the project on modernizing library services, librarian's capabilities, and improving the work of librarians. The mission of librarians is to promote everything new, even if we are the oldest profession, we just come from Alexandria, said Jerald Cavanagh. If librarians are not relevant, they will not know the Internet well, valuable and credible databases, will not introduce new electronic services, will not multiply and diversify opportunities for their users, libraries will not be able to survive.

esp training 6The English language course for specific purposes was better and easier assimilated by librarians thanks to the assistance of the translation by Valentina Topalo, Head of service at USARB.

In conclusion Elena Harconiţa, the Director of the Library, thanked on behalf of the participants the European project partners from the Republic of Ireland for the promotion of a very useful and important international level training, specifying that the Balti librarians are ready to work for 3 years with all project partners to maintain network support for info-libraries services.