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International Theological Librarian 
Education Task Force (ITLET)
Kelly Campbell, Columbia Theological Seminary, Chair

TASK FORCE MEMBERS

• Yesan Sellen, South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian  
Studies (SAIACS)

• Carisse Berryhill, Abilene Christian University
• Kelly Campbell, Columbia Theological Seminary, Chair
• Matina Curic, Missio International
• Cynthia Pelena, Central Philippines University
• Ephraim Muldave, Africa International University
• Elizabeth Greentree, Brisbane School of Theology
• Marta Samokishyn, Saint Paul University
• Yasmine Abou-el-Kheir, Chicago Theological Seminary
• Seoyoung Kim, World Mission University
• Alvaro Perez, Universidad Bíblica Lationamericana
• Brenda Bailey-Hainer, Atla Executive Director
• Jamie Lin, Education and Professional Development Manager

YEAR IN REVIEW

During its fourth year, the International Theological Librarian 
Education Task Force (ITLE) worked on several initiatives to achieve 
our charge.  ITLE’s charge is “to strengthen and connect theological 
and religious studies librarians worldwide by identifying resources, 
creating educational opportunities, and developing skill enhance-
ment materials through collaboration efforts.” 

 
The second volume of The Theological Librarian’s Handbook:  

Administration in Theological Libraries is to be published by the end 
of summer.  An editor of the third volume of the series focusing on 
collection development was selected.  After placing a call for papers, 



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the editor has selected the authors, and the initial writing of the 
volume is commencing.  

 
After compiling the worldwide theological librarianship training 

and education opportunities and a list of global theological library 
associations, two taskforce members placed this information into 
Atla’s LibGuides, so that the information is available open access.

After receiving the International Federation of Library Associa-
tion (IFLA) workgroup’s global librarian competencies, the task force 
engaged the question of creating international base competencies 
for theological librarians.  After utilizing competencies from the 
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the 2014 Atla 
competencies, the task force decided that developing global theo-
logical librarian competencies were outside the task force’s scope.  
In light of that decision, the task force decided to focus on support-
ing, sharing, and promoting the already existing numerous global 
programs for training theological librarians and to focus on existing 
professional development opportunities created by Atla incorporat-
ing the institute held several years ago.    


