This article addresses a framework for conceptualizing the preparation of leaders for the library and information science (LIS) profession. The framework has three components: curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment (CPA). Moreover, this framework is mirrored in examples from two LIS programs (one in Finland and one in the United States) and…

This paper is an attempt to support and promote education programs that cover the entire cultural heritage landscape (libraries, archives, museums) as an integrated, larger meta-discipline. By taking a larger picture approach, professionals who do the work of memory institutions can be more effective in their work, in the promotion of that…

Proposes a way of approaching epistemological positions in library and information science (LIS) by means of a larger framework called holistic perspectivism. This framework may be used to deepen an understanding of the ways of knowing in LIS and the nature of bibliotechal knowledge by overcoming epistemology substitution and epistemology…