by Donna Brown

There's a popular "library technicians booth" at the OLA Super Conference, where the college coordinators of the Library and Information Technician
(LIT ) programs offered through Algonquin, Mohawk, and Seneca share a booth with OALT/ABO, the library technicians' professional association. It was there that I had time to find out how the programs have changed over the years since I graduated, and also how they keep their courses current and relevant.

Dolores Harms Penner of Mohawk College explained that the curriculum for each of their courses is updated on an ongoing basis, which is the case for the other library technician programs as well. It's important to know that even if a course has the same name as when you took it, the content will have been updated in the meantime. Mohawk's online LIT courses are a great way for a graduate LT to update skills. The course that has the most changes each term is Electronic Publishing and Emerging Library Tech- nologies. At present, the course includes modules on blogging, social media, wikis, screen recording, image editing, and Creative Commons licensing. Mohawk's course on Cataloguing Electronic and Internet Resources continues to be popular, and a related course on metadata is under development.