Indiana Administrative Code › Title 590 - INDIANA LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL BOARD › Article 5 - LIBRARIAN CERTIFICATION › Rule 3 - Certification Application; Fees › Section 3-4 - Renewal applications for librarian certificates

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  36-12-11-5
Affected: IC 36-12-11
Sec. 4.
(a)
				Application for renewal of librarian certification following adoption of this
				administrative rule shall be made on the regular form prescribed for all
				certificates and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee as established in
				section 3 of this rule.
(b) Renewal
				for a library director will require the completion of one hundred (100) LEUs in
				five (5) years.
(c) Renewal for a
				system-wide department or branch head will require seventy-five (75) LEUs in
				five (5) years.
(d) Renewal for a
				Librarian Certificate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 professional assistant will require
				fifty (50) LEUs in five (5) years.
(e) Library education providers must be
				evaluated and approved by the Indiana state library. LEU courses should be
				library-related or specialist subjects of importance to library programming,
				services, or operations. LEUs are as follows:
(1) Accredited Library Science Education
				Courses or Approved Library Science Courses from colleges or universities
				(credit and not for credit -1 semester credit hour = 15 LEUs).
(2) Local, state, and national library
				association or specialist-subject related conferences (1 hour = 1
				LEU).
(3) Workshops, seminars,
				institutes, lectures, training by approved trainers (1 hour = 1 LEU).
(4) Up to ten (10) LEUs per five (5) year
				certificate period may be earned in nonlibrary-related specialist subjects of
				importance to library programming, services, or operations (1 hour = 1
				LEU).
(5) Up to five (5) LEUs per
				five (5) year certificate period may be earned on external professional
				committee work, including serving on a professional organization committee or
				as a professional organization officer. The librarian seeking to use external
				committee or professional organization work is responsible for getting a
				certificate or obtaining documentation of hours from the committee or
				professional organization president, vice president, director, or associate
				director. Participation in professional committee work does not require prior
				LEU approval from the Indiana state library (1 hour = 1 LEU).
(6) Up to five (5) LEUs per five (5) year
				certificate period may be earned developing and delivering workshops for
				conferences, staff in-service training, or any other continuing education
				opportunity available to library professionals. The number of LEUs that may be
				earned developing and delivering workshops matches hour for hour the length of
				the program (1 hour program = 1 LEU). The program agenda and LEU approval
				letter will serve as verification of LEUs.
(7) Up to five (5) LEUs per five (5) year
				certificate period for researching, writing, and publishing a library-related
				article that is one thousand (1,000) or more words long in a peer reviewed
				journal or other professional library-related publication (1 article = 5 LEUs).
				A copy of the article in original form or provided by means of an Internet
				website address, if the article is online, will serve as verification of
				LEUs.
(8) Library professionals
				holding five (5) year certificates may earn up to ten (10) LEUs per five (5)
				year certificate period for attending professional roundtable meetings. The
				host library shall create and award LEU certificates for all attending library
				professionals. Professional roundtables do not require prior LEU approval from
				the Indiana state library (1 LEU per roundtable attended).
(9) Up to five (5) LEUs per five (5) year
				certificate period may be earned taking escorted tours of different libraries.
				The staff member conducting the tour shall create and award LEU certificates
				for library professionals attending library tours. Library tours do not require
				prior LEU approval from the Indiana state library (1 LEU per library
				tour).