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Samuel Kent Willis – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
Library systems and digital services are in rapid development and of increasing importance to meeting the needs of users, and systems librarianship is at the forefront of this development, with ever-changing expectations of expertise and areas of responsibility. The aim of this study was to determine how well library and information science (LIS)…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Library Science, Library Education, User Needs (Information)
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Hu, Yuerong; Ocepek, Melissa G.; Downie, John Stephen; Barker, Lecia – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Librarianship is constantly confronted with unexpected and quickly evolving sociotechnical challenges, yet the documents that define the core professional competencies for librarians are infrequently updated. Based upon survey responses collected from 383 working librarians located in the United States, we describe a set of gaps between current…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Competence, Library Science, Library Education
Wing, Kate McGowen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Literature in the field investigates and debates the importance of the MLIS degree in librarianship. This information is of limited use in Maine where over 30% of public library directors have only a high school diploma. The research questions guiding this Constructivist Grounded Theory study are: How do high school educated library directors in…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Personnel, Library Administration, High School Graduates
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Martzoukou, Konstantina; Elliott, Joanneke – Communications in Information Literacy, 2016
This paper examines the extent to which public librarians are successfully prepared to engage the community in digital literacy and inclusion. A qualitative, multiple case study research design was chosen, using an analysis of policy documents and existing training programs offered by the libraries together with semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Librarians, Public Libraries, Semi Structured Interviews
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Dotson, Kaye B.; Dotson-Blake, Kylie P. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
In today's technological world, school librarians planning to be leaders should be ready to keep up with advances in standards significant to the profession. The professional standards, specifically American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Coaches offer…
Descriptors: Library Science, Internship Programs, Standards, School Libraries
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Harmon, Jennifer; Copeland, Andrea – Education for Information, 2016
For the Spring 2015 semester of the Public Library Management course, students were given digital badges along with grades for their coursework. For each topic's corresponding assignment, students received a traditional grade and those achieving at least an A- received a digital badge that represented the skill or knowledge demonstrated. By using…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Education, Library Administration, Recognition (Achievement)
Polparsi, Jomkwan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study provides an overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Library and Information Studies (LIS) education in Thailand, focusing on challenges and pressures in the information environment of Thai LIS faculty members. This study employed a qualitative research approach, naturalistic inquiry, and inductive data analysis.…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Seeking, Qualitative Research, Critical Incidents Method
Daniels, Wes; And Others – 1979
This booklet, one of a series of background information papers for the White House Conference, outlines and discusses the important issues of professionalism facing libraries, librarians, and library schools. Public librarians are being asked to assume new roles and perform new tasks for which they are increasingly unable to adequately and…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Education, Library Schools, Library Science
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Isaac, Frederick – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1983
Surveys available literature and offers suggestions for future study concerning the academic librarian's responsibility to demonstrate competence in research and publication. Publication in librarianship and other disciplines, role of professional education, relationship with other academic realms, and performance within the library are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Librarians, Library Education
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Tilley, Christine M. – Education for Library and Information Services: Australia, 1997
Though education for librarianship is contentious, the literature reveals a renewed emphasis on the value of practicum components. This article examines fieldwork in library education at Queensland University of Technology in Australia, highlighting the rationale for fieldwork, its aims and objectives, problems of implementation, benefits, and…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Education
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Bak, Greg – Libraries & Culture, 2002
Lacking a regional library school in the 1930s, librarians of the Maritime Library Institute (MLI) did not view themselves as inferior to the "trained librarians" of central Canada, but crafted a professional identity through mutual support and shared expertise. This essay discusses creation of the MLI; transforming the Maritime Library…
Descriptors: Credentials, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Librarians
Haycock, Ken – 2000
In order to chart a course for the future development of professional librarians, the American Library Association (ALA) sponsored a Congress on Professional Education in 1999 to examine critical issues related to graduate education. Issues centered around university education generally, library and information studies (LIS) education…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Librarians, Library Associations
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Johnson, Ian M. – International Information & Library Review, 1999
Reflects on the outcomes of a project undertaken in 1997-98 and examines issues relating to the development of the managerial expertise that underpins the library and information services in Latin America and the Caribbean. Reviews the literature, summarizes results of surveys of schools of Librarianship and Information Sciences and a small…
Descriptors: Information Services, Library Administration, Library Administrators, Library Directors
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Gibbs, S. E. – International Library Review, 1983
Discusses the provision of training for children's librarians in library schools in the United Kingdom and Ireland, noting four aspects--whether or not children's librarians should receive special training, types of training available in library schools, implications of the word "training," and future considerations. (EJS)
Descriptors: Courses, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
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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
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