Training Centre of the State Technical Library STATE TECHNICAL LIBRARY Mariánské Square 5, Prague 1

Foundation and mission The Training Centre was established as a separate unit of the State Technical Library on July 1,1999 The Training Centre mission is to provide a professional education for:  staff of the State Technical Library  users of their services  general professional public

The major part of technical and technological equipment purchase was covered from funds of the State Technical Library. The completion of its equipment was funded from the grant application of the Open Society Institute – Network Library Program (OSI /NLP) in Equipment and line-up

This grant application has been followed by the project “Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians in the Czech Republic“ of the MOLIN consortium in which the Training Centre of the State Technical Library now participates in:  educational events  coordination of the educational events in framework of the Regional Training Centre in Prague  signing a contract about cooperation in education between National Library CR and STL Moving into cooperation

Expanding cooperation by participation  in Educational Section SKIP (Association of Library and Information Professionals of Czech Republic) konsorcia/skip/SekceVzdel.htm konsorcia/skip/SekceVzdel.htm  in processing the schedule of the Library Conferences, Workshops and Training Events  in professional group for information education of Association of University Libraries

Participation in programs and projects (1) 1. OSI / NLP Program TCI (Training Centre Initiative) 1.1. Training Centre for Continuing Education of Librarians in the Czech Republic 2. Program of the Ministry of Culture “Library of the 21 st Century“ 2.1. Seminar on electronic services for public library staff 2.2. Analysis of education needs 2.3. Lecturers´ skills

3. Program of the Ministry of Culture “Library Public Information Services Programme – Vocational Program for Libraries “ (VISK 2) 3.1. Modern information and communication technologies in librarianships Expert training fastening up to ECDL level knowledge 4. Program of Jan Hus Foundation „Learning society“ 4.1. National Training Centre for further education for librarians Participation in programs and projects (2)

Review of educational courses of the Training Centre STL Electronic information services of libraries – in theory Electronic information services of libraries – in practice Electronic document delivery services Digital library  Protocol Z39.50  Metalib and SFX  Portal STM

Searching in electronic information source available from STL  LINK / Springer  ProQuest (SiteBuilder)  Wiley InterScience  PCI  Web of Science  Science Direct

Social communication  Communication with problem users (readers)  Grounding lecturers´ skills  Human relations in workplace Language courses  English - beginner, intermediate, advanced  German - advanced

Computer courses  HTML Language  Tools for creation of the WWW pages  JavaScript Language  PHP Language  SQL and Oracle Portal Language  MS Office  Online2000Centrum

Online2000Centrum distance on-line learning on the Intranet opened in October 2000 Courses open  Windows NT  MS Word  MS Excel  MS PowerPoint

Online2000Centrum utilization Courses are open for STL staff from October 2000 day-and-night

Online2000Centrum The most-attended course – MS Word Total of 76 employees have entered the MS Word course, 40 employees finished the test successfuly during the January December 2002 period. The record holder of this course is our colleague, who filled in 83 tests 3 days before and 69 tests one day before the exam (without neglecting his work – as his superior says). At the end he passed the exam successfully.

Training Centre STL utilization January 2000 to December 2004

INFORUM 2002 Prize Organization board INFORUM 2002 as a result of the vote of participants of the 8 th Annual Conference, INFORUM 2002 Prize has been awarded to the Training Centre NL CR and Training Centre STL for the pack of lessons and courses on library automation topic In Prague, May 22, 2002

Capacity: max. 50 seats Equipment: –9 PCs plus lecturer’s PC –Smart Board –data projector –visualizer –video recorder –flip chart –white ceramic board –variable table arrangement STATE TECHNICAL LIBRARY Training Centre

phone: fax: PhDr. Zdenka Kloučková Head of Training Centre STK Bc. Jaroslav Vyskočil Contacts:

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