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Recent Trends in Rare Book Librarianship: An Overview.
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Cloonan, Michele Valerie; Berger, Sidney E. – Library Trends, 1987
The first of two articles provides an introduction to this issue. The second article discusses the key issues in rare book librarianship over the past 50 years, including acquisition, care, handling, storage, preservation, cataloging, classifying, processing, circulation, security, and training. Both references and a 77-item bibliography are…
Descriptors: Library Education, Library Science, Library Services, Literature Reviews
Will the Cycle Be Unbroken? Research and Schools of Library and Information Studies.
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Childers, Thomas – Library Trends, 1984
Discussion of the importance of research in library education highlights library schools as producers of research; quality and amount of faculty output; factors affecting faculty research activity; student research output (particularly that of doctoral students); schools as research educators; and schools, research, and the profession. Forty-one…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Role Models in Library Education: Effects on Women's Careers.
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Moriearty, Jill; Robbins-Carter, Jane – Library Trends, 1985
Identifies and synthesizes literature on role modeling and the place of educators as role models in women's professional development. Results of survey of master's level library science students designed to ascertain existence and influence of role models and their gender in career choices are reported. Questionnaire is appended. (29 references)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Faculty, Employed Women, Graduate Students
Library Education and Youth Services: A Survey of Faculty, Course Offerings, and Related Activities in Accredited Library Schools.
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Allen, Melody Lloyd; Bush, Margaret – Library Trends, 1987
Describes a survey of accredited library schools' current education for children's, young adult, and school librarianship. Data and results are presented for course offerings, enrollment, faculty teaching responsibilities and research activities, and continuing education programs, and the findings are related to recent concerns about a lack of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Influences, Faculty Workload
Doctoral Programs in Library and Information Science in the United States and Canada.
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Bobinski, George S. – Library Trends, 1986
Traces development of library/information science doctoral study; examines current status of doctoral programs including enrollment, degrees awarded, costs, financial aid, admission and degree requirements, and coursework; presents reaction to current status of programs by deans of doctoral and nondoctoral programs; and provides personal…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Admission Criteria, Costs, Doctoral Degrees
Library Schools and Continuing Professional Education: The De Facto Role and Factors That Influence It.
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Durrance, Joan C. – Library Trends, 1986
Describes factors shaping library and information science field to illustrate the need for continuing education (CE), and constructs a de facto library school CE role based on indicators developed from examination of patterns in presence of CE coordinator, CE pattern statistics, course content, costs, and CE announcements in professional…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Competency Based Education, Costs, Course Content