ALA, the MLS, and Professional Employment: An Observer's Field Guide to the Issues.

Wilson, Pauline

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ERIC Number: EJ307130

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Publication Date: 1984

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ALA, the MLS, and Professional Employment: An Observer's Field Guide to the Issues.

Wilson, Pauline

American Libraries, v15 n8 p563-66 Sep 1984

Examines issues arising from recent controversy associated with American Library Association's (ALA) support of MLS degree as minimum requirement for professional employment. Highlights include ALA involvement in legal cases and viewpoints of ALA groups focusing on goals, constituency and handling of conflict versus nature of librarianship and its knowledge base. (EJS)

Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Graduate Study, Librarians, Library Associations, Library Education, Library Science, Masters Degrees, Professional Occupations

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Audience: Media Staff; Practitioners

Language: English

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