Argues that librarianship is intimately connected to the structures and thought patterns of bibliographic control and that bibliographic control should be the theme for all practical coursework in library education. A sample syllabus is proposed. (EA)

Prejudice and discrimination are ugly cousins, haunting humankind like the evil fairy who appears unbidden to curse the young princess. Is education the good fairy, bestowing tools to overcome this curse? A course the author taught in winter 2006 at the University of California, Irvine--one of the most ethnically diverse campuses in the United…

A quality assurance model for assuring quality in the development of course objectives and classroom and exit examinations is presented. Called the Course Development Model, it was an outgrowth of a 1985 pilot study conducted at the University of Central Florida. The study found that more than 100 faculty who completed a questionnaire did not…

Description of undergraduate program at the School of Librarianship and Information Studies, Polytechnic of North London, focuses on course objectives, the teaching sequence, and conceptual relationships between the major curriculum elements. Problems of integrating diverse teaching approaches and of forming a taxonomy of objectives in…