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| 31.07.2010 Moscow |
| The Project’s First Month Yields Impressive Results |
On 31 July 2010, the group of librarians from First Northern municipal district in Moscow completed a month-long course in Computer Basics. The training was the more challenging for the unusually hot weather and complicated vacation schedules, but both the trainees and their YCDL trainers stayed strong and powered through to the successful finish. All the trainees completed the course in time, sixty-seven people receiving YCDL Certificates and twenty-six of them scoring 90% - 97% on their Certificate Test. In addition thirty-two librarians were trained to be YCDL trainers; they will now facilitate digital literacy courses in their local libraries.
As an additional incentive for further trainees, the workers of the digital literacy center published the excellent test scores of the first training group thus encouraging healthy competition and stimulating new groups of trainees to do as well as their predecessors or even better. This idea proved so successful, that all the following training groups also wanted to have their results published as charts and graphs for easier comparison.
Many of the trainees were librarians of pre-retirement or retirement age who needed to acquire working computer skills before their next professional evaluation and assessment procedure in September, since now all the librarians are required to have knowledge and skills of using the computer. Now the alumni can be sure of their digital competence, both practical and theoretical. Many of them registered their first e-mail accounts and now can keep in touch with friends and relatives living in various Russian cities and abroad. Elena Budylina from M. Gorky central library was so inspired by the training that within three weeks after completing the course she created her own needlework website for women. Many of the alumni also joined the digital literacy center team in developing a new website for the regional library network.
All in all, the first month of the YCDL Project has yielded impressive results. The team hopes that August will prove just as productive , especially in terms of preparation for the new stage of the YCDL Project, when in September the center will begin training courses for specific target groups, referred to the center by the libraries belonging to the library network.
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