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Sarah Voels – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
The Master's degree is a necessary step for any library and information science professional who wants to advance in the field. This requires potential students to go through the graduate school application process, which often includes additional requirements set by the School of Information (or equivalent college). Application requirements offer…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, College Admission, Accreditation (Institutions)
Talbott, Katelyn – NACADA Journal, 2022
This work expands the literature and research focused on career change students enrolled in an online master's program by examining the literature regarding transitions, motivations, and advising support for career changers. Also studied are the motivations of career change students enrolled in two different online, synchronous graduate programs.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Career Counseling, Masters Programs, Online Courses
Xiaoai Ren; Nicole D. Alemanne; Lenese M. Colson – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2022
According to the American Library Association (ALA), organizational sustainability requires social equity, and serving diverse populations is mandated in the ALA Library Bill of Rights and its Policy Manual on Diversity. Preparation to serve diverse and marginalized populations is a key ingredient in creating the type of resilient leaders needed…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, Masters Degrees, Masters Programs
Ndumu, Ana; Walker, Shaundra; Burns-Simpson, Shauntee; Hayes, Nichelle M.; Mack, Tiffany – Education for Information, 2022
According to LIS research, the U.S. library and information science field reflects more than 135 years of white racialized, monocultural pedagogy. Critical race theory helps us understand why Blacks remain on the margins of the LIS profession. Armed with critical racial knowledge, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association embarked on a…
Descriptors: Library Education, Library Science, Information Science, Racism
Ondrusek, Anita; Ren, Xiaoai; Yang, Changwoo – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2019
Very few formal studies have documented the errors committed in online searching performances, and none have focused exclusively on students in library and information science programs. To fill this gap, the authors conducted a content analysis of online searching errors of MLIS students based upon a coding scheme derived from previous error…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
Ndumu, Ana V.; Rollins, Tina – Information and Learning Sciences, 2020
Purpose: After the closing of four of the five historically Black college and university (HBCU)-based library and information science (LIS) graduate programs (leaving only that of North Carolina Central University), there is a need to revitalize HBCU-LIS degree program pathways to increase racial diversity in LIS education.…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, Librarians, Partnerships in Education
Muñoz-Cañavate, Antonio; Larios-Suárez, Verónica – Education for Information, 2017
This paper reviews the history and current situation of postgraduate studies in Librarianship and Information Science (LIS) at the university level in Spain before and after the development of the Bologna Process's European Higher Education Area (EHEA). It contextualizes the historical development of these studies, describing how official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Library Science, Library Education
Ford, Charlotte; Faires, Debbie; Hirsh, Sandra; Carranza, Nítida – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2017
This comparative case study evaluated the role of foreign language study within the Library and Information Science (LIS) curriculum of two programs in the United States and Honduras. The purpose of this research was to understand the significance and usefulness of language courses from the perspective of the students enrolled. Students who had…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Library Science, Information Science, Curriculum
Morgan, Chad Henderson – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation examines the sources of job satisfaction among 1,833 library and information science (LIS) master's program graduates in North Carolina from 1964-2009. Only respondents who identified themselves as librarians were included in the analysis. The study first examined the effects of traditional work-related variables such as income,…
Descriptors: Library Science, Job Satisfaction, Information Science, Masters Programs
Cooke, Nicole A. – Online Learning, 2016
In a study of the information behaviors of graduate students enrolled in an online Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program, it was determined that learners engage in threaded discussions not only for cognitive purposes but for affective reasons as well. The information sharing among students was particularly prolific during a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Students, Information Science, Library Science
Croxton, Rebecca A. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2015
This study explores how factors relating to fully online Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) students' connectedness with peers and faculty may impact their professional identity development as library and information studies professionals. Participants include students enrolled in a fully online MLIS degree program in the…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Individual Development, Mixed Methods Research, Electronic Learning
California Univ., Los Angeles. Dept. of Library and Information Science. – 2000
This document outlines the Portfolio Assessment Requirement for students entering the Master of Information Science (MIS) program at the University of California, Los Angeles in the fall of 1997 and after who have the option of preparing a portfolio or writing a thesis. First, the two general and three specific goals of the portfolio assessment…
Descriptors: Degree Requirements, Higher Education, Information Science, Library Science
Thomas, Margie – School Library Journal, 2006
This article presents the results from a survey that investigated the latest requirements and certification standards for school librarians in each state. In the survey, 42 report they require certification for K-12 library media specialists, meaning that school library candidates must have a bachelor's degree including coursework designed to…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Certification, Media Specialists
Moore, Maxine; Carson, C. Herbert – Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 1998
Provides five articles: guide to employment sources in library and information professions, including library joblines; placements and salaries, 1996--counting on technology; accredited master's programs in library and information studies arranged by geographical areas; library scholarship sources; and library scholarship and award recipients,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Awards, Information Science, Job Placement

Bookstein, Abraham; Biggs, Mary – Library Quarterly, 1987
Describes a study done by Herbert White that resulted in rankings of library and information science programs based on perceptual assessments by faculty and library directors. Problems with this methodology are discussed, and further findings based on extensive interviews with subjects of the White study are reported. (CLB)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Information Science
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