1. EUCLID European Association for Library and Information
Education and Research

2. EUCLID Board ( )
Serap Kurbanoğlu, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Raphaëlle Bats, Enssib, France
Alen Doracic, University of Boras, Sweden
Andreu Sulé Duesa, University of Barcelona, Spain
Michal Lorenz, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Klaas Jan Mollema, The Hague University, the Netherlands
Sebastian Mundt, Stuttgart Media University, Germany

3. Strategic Plan
Facilitate research, publication and dissemination of research results on LIS education and curriculum.
Facilitate collaboration and networking: organize events to create opportunities to bring members together to discuss developments, challenges, and solutions regarding LIS education.
Develop and foster cooperation and collaboration with members, partner institutions and other associations and organizations, such as iSchools, UNESCO, IFLA, EBLIDA, ALISE, national associations, etc.

4. 2005

5. Action Plan 1. Increase number of members
Reach out to both previous members for membership renewals and all the other LIS schools/departments for membership.
Extend the membership to LIS schools outside Europe as well as expand it to the organizations which support LIS education and research, such as libraries and other associations.

6. Action Plan 2. Conduct following activities
Organize an international conference on LIS education and make it a bi-annual event. First conference will be held in 2016 to commemorate 25 years of EUCLID. Conference proceedings will be published. This publication is intended to be a review of LIS education in Europe.
Develop a members’ database.
Create an e-archive for conference proceedings.

7. Action Plan 3. Increase visibility of EUCLID by
Re-designing, improving and updating the existing EUCLID website.
Publishing EUCLID Newsletter twice a year and distributing it widely.
Publishing annual reports, Council Meeting minutes and Board Meeting minutes on the website for transparency.
Having a logo designed for creating institutional identity.

8. New Website

10. EUCLID Logo Two characters that share a book, a document.
These figures represent the first and the last lettres of the association name : E and D.
The mission and the objectives of EUCLID (exchange, meeting, relation, co-operation, etc.) are represented by the mutual exchange of a book, the symbol choosen for embody the « Library & Information Education and Research ». This book takes a central place in the logo.
The european interest of the association is recognisable through the colours blue and yellow (the same of the european flag) and the stars.

11. Action Plan 4. Continue to support BOBCATSSS in all possible ways.
5. Develop effective communication strategies for members.
6. Provide sound and transparent fiscal management.

12. What can be Done? A survey of LIS schools
A conference on LIS education
Survey results can be presented and discussed
Country representatives can be invited to make presentations about the current state in their countries
A publication can come out (2nd edition of European Curriculum Reflections on LIS Education) – (Proceedings Book)
Further collaboration opportunities can be disscussed
Collaborative initiatives can start

13. A Mutinational Survey
1249 participant from 18 country

14. Gender

15. Assignments

16. Difficulties
Students mostly don’t think that figuring out where to find sources in the library, finding sources to use “out on the Web”, finding artices in the library’s databases, coming up with search terms, finding up-to-date materials and determining whether a Web Site is credible or not are difficult. They generally find getting started on the assignment, defining a topic for the assignment and narrowing down a topic difficult.

17. Difficulties
There is not anything in this list that most of the students think it is really hard to do. Students mostly don’t think that reading through the material, taking notes, integrating different sources from their research into their assignment, knowing when they should cite a source, knowing when they should cite a source, and the writing part is difficult. Most difficult things according to the students are re-phrasing what is already well expressed in a source and knowing whether I’ve done a good job on the assignment or not is difficult.