MLIS Certification Reaccreditation

Once you earn the right to use the MLIS^® certification, you must engage in an ongoing continuing education process to maintain it. This involves obtaining 3 hours of approved professional and management liability insurance continuing education credit during the 24 months following initial receipt of the certification and every 12 months thereafter. You may obtain this CE credit by completing online MLIS courses or attending webinars, seminars, conferences, or other educational events that have been approved for MLIS reaccreditation (and notifying us that you have completed them). This process is explained below.

Online MLIS Courses for Reaccreditation

The MLIS Learning Center will offer professional and management liability risk and insurance courses designed to increase your expertise. One of these courses is all that is necessary to satisfy your 3-hour CE requirement, and most will also qualify for insurance CE if you need it. Courses that are planned in the future to build a library of courses focused on the professional and management liability risk and insurance issues include:

• Management Liability for Privately-Held Companies
• Management Liability for Nonprofits
• Public Officials Liability

Alternatively, you may retake one of the core courses to satisfy the 3-hour requirement, and we recommend you do this every few years as we update the courses to cover the latest developments in professional and management liability risk and insurance.

Attend a Seminar, Webinar, or Conference

Your other option for maintaining your MLIS certification is to attend approved webinars, conferences, seminars, or a combination of events that provide at least 3 hours of credit. The process for this is:

1. Attend a seminar, conference, or webinar that has been approved for MLIS reaccreditation. You must attend the seminar, webinar, or conference after receiving your MLIS certification.
2. The sponsor will provide you with a Certificate of Completion containing a unique and nontransferable Completer Code number.
3. If a single event provided the 3 hours needed for reaccreditation, go to the Voucher/Promotion/Completer Code Redemption page in the MLIS Learning Center to report your attendance and pay the reaccreditation fee. You will need the Completer Code number from the Certificate of Completion you received when you do so. The fee for this reaccreditation option pays the costs of administering this part of the MLIS program.
4. If you are attending multiple events to satisfy the 3-hour requirement, follow the procedures below.
   1. Once you have completed the required 3 hours for reaccreditation please submit an MLIS Reaccreditation Certification Form and evidence of completion certificates to: continuingeducation@irmi.com or fax to Continuing Education at 972.371.5120.
   2. If you attended IRMI webinars for credit but were not the registered attendee, complete an MLIS Webinar Certification Form for each webinar.
      1. All attendees should print and sign their name and provide their email address.
      2. The person who has paid for the webinar and signed on will be the person who signs the document assuring that those individuals have listened to the webinar in its entirety.
      3. Each attendee will need to be provided a copy of the signed form.
      4. When all 3 webinars have been completed; submit a MLIS Reaccreditation Certification Form with each signed MLIS Webinar Certification Form to continuingeducation@irmi.com or fax to Continuing Education at 972.371.5120.
   3. Once IRMI has received and verified course attendance an email will be sent providing
      1. A link to the website to report attendance
      2. A Voucher Code, which is used to certify completion of the required 3 hours.

If you have any questions or issues with this process, please call 800.827.4242 and ask to speak with a CE coordinator.

Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the reaccreditation process and pay the reaccreditation fee. When asked to sign in, it is important that you enter the same ID and password used when taking the MLIS certification courses. If you do not remember your login information you may contact WebCE at 800.488.9308 during normal business hours.

Approved Webinar, Seminars, and Conferences

The following webinars, seminars, and conferences have been approved for MLIS Reaccreditation.

Obtaining Reaccreditation Approval for Seminars or Conferences

If your organization sponsors webinars, seminars, conferences, or other educational programs (Programs) that focus on management liability risk management and insurance topics, consider having them certified for MLIS reaccreditation. In addition to this focus, they must meet the following criteria to qualify:

1. The duration of instruction must be at least 3 hours.
2. The program content must provide a level of instruction that will advance the knowledge and competence of someone who has completed the MLIS core curriculum.
3. You must have a satisfactory method of monitoring attendance or completion of the course.
4. You must agree to certain administration, notification, and recordkeeping requirements.