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Justin A. Crossfox – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
A mid-career transition from public children's librarian to academic librarian revealed new pedagogical challenges that emerged when engaging adult learners. Initially feeling unprepared to teach credit-bearing courses, the author enrolled in a graduate program in Adult Education to gain the theoretical and practical tools needed for effective…
Descriptors: Librarians, Career Change, Adult Education, Adult Educators
C. Sean Burns; Jennifer Pusateri; Daniela K. DiGiacomo – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2025
This paper presents a novel approach to designing an online, open-source course in systems librarianship, an area of librarianship that may be perceived as complex and intimidating because of the technologies involved. The course design focuses on making systems librarianship more approachable for library and information science students who may…
Descriptors: Library Science, Online Courses, Open Education, Instructional Design
Hlongwane, Ike – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of recognition of prior learning (RPL) as an alternative tool for access into learning programmes in South African Library and Information Science (LIS) schools. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted quantitative methods, and utilised questionnaires and document analysis to…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Access to Education, Library Science, Information Science Education
Poole, Alex H.; Agosto, Denise; Greenberg, Jane; Lin, Xia; Yan, Erjia – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
The field of LIS continues to face a vexing paradox. Its longstanding ideal of and concomitant commitment to serving diverse communities and users equally has failed to translate into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the profession or in LIS education. This article analyzes efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in North…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Library Science, Student Diversity, Equal Education
Moorefield-Lang, Heather; Copeland, Clayton A.; Haynes, Aisha – Education for Information, 2016
This conceptual paper will discuss how faculty from The School of Library and Information Science at The University of South Carolina partnered with their university's Center for Teaching Excellence. This partnership resulted in the facilitation of professional development workshops and online tools for peer educators to better serve distance…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Library Science, Information Science, Partnerships in Education
Walsh, Jan – 1991
This paper explores what the rural library will look like in 2001, and envisions rural information needs and the roles the library will assume to meet those needs. Demographically, the year 2001 will see an aging population, low population growth, and a rising percentage of racial minorities. Key areas of public concern will be the environment and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Community Information Services, Futures (of Society)
Ghosh, S. B. – 2001
Open and distance learning is seen as a viable alternative to provide education for all, particularly in the context of developing countries. Open learning is basically a philosophy, while distance learning is a method of flexible education for the unreached, i.e., socially, economically, physically, and geographically disadvantaged groups of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged, Distance Education