Seven issues to consider when designing training curricula

Most organizations focus on one‐off training solutions to address a single workplace learning need at a single time rather than integrating learning and nonlearning interventions to help staff develop increasingly complex levels of expertise specific to their jobs. Curriculum is a long‐term, integrated approach to training in which workers take several related courses over a period of time. This article presents seven design issues that distinguish curriculum design from course design.     

The role of mentoring in the CPD programmes of professional associations

This paper seeks to position the current role of mentoring within the continuing professional development (CPD) programmes of UK professional associations and to examine its potential for developing reflective practice. Following a review of mentoring and CPD in terms of their relationship to the ethos of lifelong learning, it indicthes the extent to which mentoring has been embraced by professional associations. Here, reference is made to a wider research project that set out to map the CPD policies and programmes of UK professional associations by analysing the documentation of over 100 associations. The paper puts forward the idea that mentoring could form an important support for reflective practice, particularly where participation in CPD is compulsory. In conclusion, it argues that the wider introduction of mentoring could help forge new relationships between professionals and their clients, and overcome some of the tensions inherent within CPD itself.     

Systematic Marketing Facilitates Optimal Customer Service: The Marketing Audit of a Rural Public Library System

This article presents a case study of a marketing audit of the Lee County Library System, a rural public library system located in southwest Georgia. Marketing audits are an underutilized but needed tool for public libraries. In this audit, the library system’s mission, goals, environments, community and employee demographics, and a strengths/weakness/opportunities/threats (SWOT) analysis were evaluated, resulting in several recommendations. These recommendations include a new mission statement, regular SWOT analyses, and potential market segments for targeted library services. Through this case study, the complexities, challenges, and opportunities unique to rural public libraries can be understood.     

Photography

Photography Year: 1977 Edition (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1977—price not given)

Shirley Glubok's The Art of Photography (New York: Macmillan, 1977—$7.95)

Paul Dickson's Out of this World: American Space Photography (New York: Dell Books, Delta Special, 1977—E9.95, paper)

Garry Winogrand's Public Relations (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977—$9.95, paper)

Michael Emory's Windows (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1977—$25.00)

Donna-Lee Phillips and Lew Thomas, eds. Eros and Photography: An Exploration of Sexual Imagery and Photographic Practice (Camerawork/NFS Press, P.O. Box 31040, San Francisco, Calif. 94131—$l0.95, paper)     

A case study of questioning for reading comprehension during guided reading

This case study explored how a teacher's questioning during guided reading scaffolded six children's understanding of reading. Observations and interview data conveyed that questioning statements and the teacher's involvement as a respondent prompted children's engagement and understanding of the text. Insufficient wait time and open questions with a closed intent seemed to stifle children's understanding of reading. Conclusions suggest teachers' relaxation of questioning to a conversational manner may enable guided reading to be an opportunity to develop children's comprehension on all levels.     

It is approaching breakfast and this is a campervan: weather,drawings and grandparenting in North-West England

An account is given of a series of drawings done by two boys (four and six years old) while staying with their grandparents. These are considered within a child development framework emphasising the place of context and the socio-cultural theory of Wertsch. Context is explicated through looking at how household, local culture, mediated action and children's drawings can be connected. Links are made with the Early Years Foundation Stage and the championing of parent–teacher links within effective practice. Grandparenting is partly located within the generativity–stagnation arguments of Erikson in adult development.     

Computer software reviews

Statistics: One approach

Statistics: A second approach

Statistics: A third approach

Word processing

Telecommunications

Database management