This article argues that the MLIS curriculum should offer information ethics courses that enable future information professionals to develop their imaginative powers through close study and discussion of fiction. LIS students reading ethical theory and fiction bring the two into conversation and as a result reach a better understanding of both.…

This article describes the evolution of a required Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) research methods course moving to a focus on evidence-based library and information practice (EBLIP). It describes how a research methods course was revised, beginning with results from a "typical" course review and morphing into work that…

The intellectual origins of information organization (IO) as a field of study are examined by tracing the use of the terms, "information organization", "knowledge organization", "bibliographic control", and their variants, and by surveying the educational texts dealing with the various component activities of IO,…

This article reports preliminary findings of a research project that used participatory action research (PAR) methodology. The PAR methodology gives voice and ownership to prospective students and other stakeholders in the design of a culturally sensitive library science program and its related online courses in the English-speaking Eastern…

In the face of a changing landscape of youth services, LIS education can push the field of librarianship forward by adopting research-based frameworks that are directly applicable to the profession. We combined the Connected Learning framework with Radical Change theory and Outcome-Based Planning and Evaluation (OBPE) to establish the structure…

Aim of the project: Curriculum development is a time-consuming process and often interminable. Pursuing the idea of creating a nationwide core curriculum is one opportunity to develop a curriculum in library and information science (LIS). It can be supposed that a project like this can be the initial point stimulating and encouraging the widest…

Students and faculty in library schools and librarians in the field are engaged in a reassessment of librarianship and library education. Such special topics as communication and behavioral science, information retrieval, library automation and systems analysis and design are beginning to form the basis for a new core of library science. (5…

A year spent on curriculum renewal has most frequently resulted in old content being put into more sophisticated packages which are more appealing to the designer than the student. (Author)

The purpose to be accomplished by study abroad is the education of society through the improvement of the educational opportunities for librarians who directly influence libraries in the social order. A year's study abroad would be a means of (1) introducing the treatment of other cultures which is needed for increased understanding of human…

In this presentation, the author sets forth five assumptions about library/information sciences upon which he bases his argument that library/information education, in order to be effective, and perhaps even to survive, will have to change its goals, content and context. The three general areas of concern in library/information curricula are…

Librarians will need specialized tools and skills to conquer technology and to deal with large scale problems in the future and library schools must plan curricula that will provide the education needed by those librarians. (Author/AB)

The purpose of this study was to examine what role information science courses play in the library and information science master's programs. The current course offerings of the 50 American Library Association accredited schools in the United States were analyzed by designated categories to determine the percentages of: traditional library science…

Contained in this report are the thoroughly documented findings of a survey for a basic curriculum to equip middle and upper level personnel for managing the growth and change confronting their libraries. The study contains the data and fully describes the survey method that is the basis for the proposed curriculum. Its aim is to upgrade the…

These two papers, one on information and library science personnel, the other on archival personnel, argue that trained professionals are the key to modern information processing, and discuss the needs of developing nations for information about training and education agencies, international exchanges of personnel, and for internationally…

Traces the trends and patterns that characterize library education and librarianship in Israel, including influences of various cultural traditions, the history of Israeli library education, the roles of major Israeli library educators, and the development of graduate curricula. Forty-seven references are listed. (FM)