What other models were used as guidelines for requiring continuous professional development?
Wisconsin, Georgia, Maryland and Indiana all require continuous professional development for at least one level of librarian certification. Within the state of New York, all teachers, teaching assistants, and school library media specialists must participate in continuous professional development in order to maintain a valid certificate. Other professions, monitored by the State Education Department’s Office of Professions requiring continuous professional development and/or continuing education include: speech-language pathologists/audiologists, professional engineers, land surveyors, optometrists, public accountants, architects, and more. Various considerations, guidelines, and methods of information collection were taken from these different models in order to formulate a model that worked best for the public librarian professional certificate in New York State.
