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The most important tasks of professional strategy in librarianship between 2003 and 2007 included: supporting the life long learning of librarianship and making their professional career more attractive. The legal regulation 1/2000. (14 January) on the compulsory further education scheme for professionals in the field of culture says that librarians must take part in every seven-year period in continuing education (120 hrs each), financed centrally by the Ministry of Education and CulturE. The training is organized in the frame of adult education, and the courses can be provided only by licenced institutions. The Hungarian Library Institute (HLI) has received a valid licence for the adult education of librarians till 2009, and provides relevant programmes and courses (e.g. training for library assistants). The staff of HLI took part in the reform of professional training (validation, working out competencies profiles, defining skills etc.). The training of library technicians at a higher level is waiting for implementation. The Institute's courses show a variety in themes (personality development, social inclusion for handicapped groups, computer skills, project planning, cataloguing, reference etc.). The HLI has had a licence for 25 training programms - and in case of 16 programmes was a founder. The number of participating students made up 1 122. At the homepage of the HLI (www.ki.oszk.hu) information on the licenced courses was made accessible. Parallel with the courses two text book series have been issued: the first serves library assistant training, while the other offers professional reading for graduated colleagues. The report concludes with describing the experiences made at the Institute's most popular courses (computer skills, librarians' mental health, conflict management). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]