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Elena Tîrziman; Maria Micle – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2024
The alert pace of technological, information and social development of contemporary society prevent academic programmes of initial education (bachelor, master) in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) from supplying graduates with enough knowledge and competences to meet the employers' requirements: this makes lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Librarians, Lifelong Learning, Competence, Library Science
Singh, Rajesh; Vorbach, James – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2017
The evolving demand for workforce skills has often been a topic of discussion at various professional library and information science (LIS) conferences and in the academic literature. Although LIS schools tend to highlight the goal of preparing future members of the LIS profession to be effective leaders, a management and leadership curriculum gap…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Library Science, Information Science, Foreign Countries
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

Zwadlo, Jim – Library Quarterly, 1997
Argues that librarians and information scientists do not need a philosophy. Instead of a single philosophy of library and information science, they need a way to manage the many contradictory ideas in order to be more effective and more helpful to patrons. (AEF)
Descriptors: Information Management, Information Science, Information Scientists, Librarians

Echavarria, Tami; And Others – College & Research Libraries, 1995
In 1991, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Research Committee established an experiment using electronic mail to create mentoring relationships focusing on library and information science research. Reports on the project design and the experiment's progress to date and includes first-hand accounts of participants'…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Electronic Mail, Information Science, Interpersonal Relationship
Hallam, Gillian; Gissing, Chris – Australian Library Journal, 2003
This paper examines the partnership established between Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) through the School of Information Systems and the Careers and Employment Office to provide a mentoring program for students in the Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Studies (GDLIS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Information Systems, Library Education

Rochester, Maxine K. – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1996
Reviews studies of journal articles as a means of professional communication in the field of library and information science. The focus has been on content analysis and bibliometrics, which includes author, topic, and citation analysis. (LAM)
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Content Analysis, Educational Researchers, Information Science

Fisher, William – Library Trends, 1997
Professional associations in the library/information science field are viewed from the perspective of the value they bring to the field. Research and professional development are reviewed in this context based on the efforts of ALA (American Library Association), ALISE (Association for Library & Information Science Education), ASIS (American…
Descriptors: Information Industry, Information Science, Library Associations, Library Development
Stueart, Robert D. – Library Journal, 1981
The challenges to education for librarianship and information science are numerous and great: technology, research, expanding curricula to address problems of special constituencies, and recruiting committed individuals. Changes are occurring rapidly, and practitioners and educators must work together to ensure the challenges are met. Thirteen…
Descriptors: Change, Curriculum Development, Graduate Study, Information Needs

Clark, Alan J. – Education for Information, 1995
Presents a bibliography of 451 sources on education and training for librarianship and information work. Highlights include library and information science schools, departments, and courses; professional and paraprofessional qualifications; career development; continuing education; inservice training; role of associations and societies; related…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Employment Qualifications, Information Science, Information Sources

Chandler, Yvonne J. – Library Trends, 2001
Graduate programs must examine the curriculum for reference and information access professionals. Greater access to information sources by users has highlighted the need for reference and information professionals to develop new skills including more technological knowledge, a better understanding of user information-seeking, new instructional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Higher Education, Information Science
Kolarova, Helena – 1980
As part of the Project of Further Development of the Czechoslovak Educational System, a program adopted in 1976, library education has been revised beginning in the secondary schools, extending through the university level, and providing continuing education opportunities for librarians, technicians, and researchers. Secondary school curriculums…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education