Abstract:
To study the needs for continuing education of teacher-librarians in Schools Under the Expansion of Basic Education Opportunity Project in the Northeastern region. This study put its emphasis on their reasons in participating in continuing education, activities, providers, subject areas, as well as the application of knowledge. The research found that teacher-librarians had their own reasons for participating in continuing education. Their needs were to solve the job-related problems and to improve their working efficiency. With regard to their physical and mental readiness, they could easily have taken part in continuing education. The teacher-librarians prefeered informal continuing education to formal continuing education. In formal continuing education, they wanted to participate in training activities leading to certification. In informal continuing education, they wanted to participate in study tours to libraries and information centers. Mostly, in summer vacation, teacher-librarians were eager to be involved in almost every activity. Besides, they wanted to read literature on Library Science during Saturdays and Sundays. They needed the supervision and the study tours during working hours. They also needed to participate in continuing education which was served by the library schools in the local areas and libraries in the Northeast. Findings showed that subject areas that the teacher-libearians wanted most were the library activities. Besides, they want brought in the technical processing and library activities in order to apply to their tasks.