Ineligible Activities for Continuing Education Credit

To be considered a learning activity for the purposes of continuing education credit, the activity must be planned, coordinated, administered, and evaluated in terms of learning objectives, and designed to keep librarians abreast of new knowledge and developments within their field, update their basic library oriented education, enhance their job competence, or lead to specialization in a new area of librarianship. Among the activities not likely to meet these criteria are the following:

• Staff, business, committee, planning, or advisory meetings.
• Training on regular library operations, procedures, forms or general office equipment, such as training in routine use of the local automated system or a photocopier.  Training that is not routine, such as when a library automates for the first time or installs a new automated system may qualify.
• Training and orientation of new staff or a new position.
• Updating current internal manuals and guides or other internal documents.
• Professional association activities which are routine in nature (e.g., serving on the ILA nominating committee).
• Reading professional journals unless they are part of a larger class or learning project. 
• Training on topics not related to library work such as retirement planning.

If you are unsure whether an activity qualifies for credit, please contact the Continuing Education Consultant.